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10 Groundbreaking Concepts

10 groundbreaking concepts: 2014

As concepts fight for a foothold in the crowded restaurant industry, determination to be on the cutting edge drives many decisions. These 10 groundbreakers all pushed the envelope during the last 12 months in terms of both design and operation, bending traditions and blurring lines within their typical space to set new directions.

McDonald’s nearing decision on real-estate spinoff

Will the burger giant heed investors’ calls to unlock shareholder value by spinning off its U.S. assets?

Food

3 chains (besides McDonald’s) testing crazy fries

By Patricia Cobe on May 10, 2016

McDonald's garlic fries are getting the headlines, but a few other chains also are making news with funky fries.

Financing

Restaurants' ouch moments of 2016

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 18, 2016

Not every restaurant development of the past year deserved commemoration with a smiley face. Here are a few of low points.

Workforce

Turmoil for an industry built on immigration

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 16, 2017

The restaurant industry has a unique perspective on the immigration issue. The trade is built on immigrants the way the auto industry depends on tires.

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.

Food

The 10 most alluring LTOs in November

By Lizzy Freier on Nov. 30, 2017

Consumers reveal which chain limited-time offers they are most likely to purchase based on name and description.

Marketing

McDonald’s turns its arches upside down for International Women’s Day

By Heather Lalley on Mar. 08, 2018

The “W” appears on store logos, online and on uniforms and packaging.

What's so special about echo boomers?

By Restaurant Business Staff on Dec. 04, 2005

Some call them Millennials, others Generation Y. Most often, they're known as the Echo Boomers. The offspring of the Baby Boom generation, they form the next big wave rolling down America's demographic curve. Born between 1977 and 1995, they number at least 25 million more than Gen X (or the Baby Bust), the cohort that came of age in the 1980s and 1990s.

McDonald's CEO 'under siege' at home and abroad

Aug. 04, 2014

McDonald's Corp CEO Don Thompson sure could use a break. The head of the world's biggest restaurant chain, who for much of his two years at the helm has been battling to spark sales growth in the United States and Europe, got battered by headline-grabbing bad news in late July.

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