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Financing

Elysium Management buys Huddle House

Sentinel Capital sold the family-dining chain to the private-equity titan's family office investor.

Consumer Trends

Customers’ most-craved breakfasts

By Lizzy Freier on Oct. 10, 2017

See which 10 chains are meeting consumers’ morning cravings the most.

Top 500 Chains

Huddle House

Jun. 12, 2017

It plans to launch 100 additional units in the next five years

Huddle House

Jun. 11, 2017

Offering cooked-to-order homestyle favorites for “Any Meal. Any Time”

2017 Top 500: Family Style

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 07, 2017

While some of the legacy brands (such as IHOP and Bob Evans) saw declines, Technomic Chief Insights Officer Darren Tristano expects breakfast-and-lunch concepts to keep growing.

Consumer Trends

America's favorite midscale chains

By Jill Failla on Jan. 17, 2017

Although trendy new breakfast-and-lunch-only eateries continue to pop up, they’ve yet to top legacy brands for consumers’ overall favorite family-style restaurants.

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.

Tale of two farms

By Patricia Cobe on May. 28, 2013

In 2007, John Kregel, a pig farmer in Garnerville, Iowa, built group housing—also known as large pens—to accommodate 3,000 of his 9,000 sows; the other 6,000 remain in gestation stalls. He feels the stalls are better for the pigs in winter but his sows are adapting well to the pens.

The week in ideas, December 10, 2012

By Restaurant Business Staff on Dec. 10, 2012

Yelp reviews in the bathroom. Resourceful employees. A super-sustainable Applebee’s. And no more rare burgers in London. A well-done Week In Ideas awaits.