Joe's Crab Shack

For sale: Joe's Crab Shack, Brick House Tavern

Parent company Ignite Restaurant Group said it is looking for a buyer for the whole company or one of the chains.

Consumer Trends

Top chains by menu segment for 2017

Chains ranking highest in their competitive set deliver more than just good food. They’re winning in all aspects of the dining experience, from service to convenience.

This week's look at industry developments is intended for mature audiences only.

Music can help make or break a restaurant experience, so with help from Technomic, we found the top 10 casual-dining playlists.

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.

Or at least not in 14 of the 18 restaurants that switched to a revenue-sharing model for compensating servers, revealed Ignite Restaurants, parent of the Joe's Crab Shack chain. Joe's was the first full-service restaurant chain of scale to experiment with the discontinuation of tipping.

McDonald’s told investors yesterday that its turnaround program is catching hold while other brands are lopping off stores that drag on their rebounds.

The casual-dining concept is paying servers at some stores instead of expecting customers to leave gratuities.

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