Chipotle Mexican Grill

Your picks of the year’s top chain CEOs

We offered our choice of the year’s best restaurant leaders last week. Here are the ones you would have put on the list.

Tabasco opens a hot sauce-themed restaurant

The condiment company’s eatery incorporates different Tabasco flavors into its dishes, which include jambalaya, crawfish nachos and raspberry-chipotle ice cream.

The chain also plans to air what it knows about the causes of its recent food safety problems.

More than half of the restaurant industry’s $491 billion in sales come from the Top 500 chains. And these giants grew at a modestly stronger rate, both in terms of sales and store counts, than the industry overall. Restaurant Business focused on the leading 250 performers to identify trends for our first-ever special report delivering lessons from Technomic’s annual Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. This special package includes lessons for all operators from the largest chains by segment, menu category and more.

The calendar says we're still a few days away from a full moon, but the nightmarish developments of the past week would suggest otherwise. The events may rank among the most astonishing moments of the year.

How are restaurants trying to sway consumers who are shorter on time than they are on dollars? Recent days provided head-turning examples and insights. Spoiler alert: Not all approaches are worth copying.

The executive who worked magic at Popeyes would be the ideal chief for a brand just starting its searching for a leader: Taco Bell.

As a classically trained chef who came up through the ranks of fine dining (Bouley, Charlie Trotter’s, Tru), Bill Kim knows about building flavor and...

Since opening in April, Super Chix has snagged much attention, and not necessarily because of its food.

The Mexican fast casual said it would suspend pork sales at about one-third of its restaurants after an audit revealed one of its suppliers wasn't complying with its animal-welfare standards.

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