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Politicians' food tab takes $14.5M bite from donations

 Aug. 26, 2014

Restaurants may not like their elected officials as politicians, but they certainly should love them as customers, a new analysis shows.

‘Yo’ mama’ snipes resound in latest restaurant marketing

 By Peter Romeo on Apr. 12, 2016

The barbs aren't always kind, but chains are hoping they may be memorable.

Food

How leading chains stack up by menu size

By Lizzy Freier on Mar. 16, 2017

The top and fastest-growing chains don’t always align with average total menu items in their sectors.

Financing

25 top limited-service chains in sales and satisfaction

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 22, 2017

A restaurant chain's sales don't always reflect customer satisfaction, and vice versa. Here, we rank the leading limited-service chains using a formula that includes financials, consumer satisfaction and value.

Top 500 Chains

Five Guys Burgers and Fries

Jun. 12, 2017

The fast casual is widely cited as the model for better-burger concepts

The week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Blurred lines edition

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 14, 2014

From c-store hires to tickets replacing reservations and McDonald’s unflinchingly disclosing what it’s selling, the restaurant industry looked at times like it was in a different business.

The week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Trend skeet-shooting edition

By Peter Romeo on Aug. 29, 2014

Restaurants took aim at a number of trends to bolster business, but their marksmanship wasn’t always keen. Oh, was it not keen.

2016 Top 500 restaurant chains

Jun. 21, 2016

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.

7 issues on restaurant leaders’ minds

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 11, 2017

More than 1,000 top-level chain executives came together to compare approaches to common problems and opportunities. The resulting discussions at the Restaurant Leadership Conference covered a lot of ground, including the latest challenges in building off-premise sales.

2017 Top 500: Burger

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 07, 2017

The top three burger chains, all QSRs, own two-thirds of the category's sales.

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