Marketing
9 ways restaurants are mixing up Valentine’s Day offers
Operators are putting their own spins on the standard romantic dinner.
Food
Inside Moe's Southwest Grill's new menu lab
At Moe’s Southwest Grill, a new item has about a 10% chance of making it from the idea stage to the menu, and the process can take as long as a year.
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.