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Marketing

3 bold-headline restaurant confessions

 By Peter Romeo on Sep. 11, 2017

Confession is supposedly good for the soul. These chains are betting it won't hurt business, either.

Marketing

Social media blowback: Restaurants respond

 By Lisa White on Sep. 25, 2017

This month has seen its fair share of restaurant controversy on the web. Here’s how three concepts are choosing to address current and potential snafus with followers.

Food

Chili’s beefs up core menu items

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 05, 2017

The chain's burgers, ribs and fajitas will now be served with more meat.

Operations

Restaurants now showing baby boomers some love

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 17, 2017

Chili's and Applebee's are two of the chains betting on the generation they were set to ignore.

Financing

Romano's Macaroni Grill files for bankruptcy protection

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 18, 2017

Management says the venerable Italian chain will use the filing to renegotiate leases on 37 closed sites.

Financing

8.7% traffic drop stings Chili's in latest quarter

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 01, 2017

Maggiano's also saw a slide in guest counts.

Financing

October brings restaurants some sales relief

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 09, 2017

Traffic still declined, but by the slightest amount in more than a year, according to the latest snapshot from researcher TDn2K.

Leadership

Brinker names new chief digital officer

By Sara Rush Wirth on Jan. 09, 2018

The parent of Chili’s and Maggiano’s promoted from within while steering its IT team to focus on digital first.

Operations

Off-premise boom drives sweeping ops changes

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 24, 2018

Restaurants are reformatting their layouts and processes to accommodate the shift in their business toward takeout, delivery and catering.

Workforce

This week’s 6 head-spinning moments: Surprises. Or not.

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 26, 2018

Unexpected developments abounded in the restaurant business, from a surge in popularity of hurling hatchets to new revelations about how much some restaurants pay.

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