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Noodles & Company

2017 Top 500: Asian-noodle chains

The limited-service Asian/Noodle category is small, at less than $4.6 billion, but fast-growing.

Food

4 items returning after yearslong hiatuses

Top chains are bringing back fan favorites from years—even decades—ago.

Financing

Fast casual has angst to overcome

By Scott Hume on May 25, 2017

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote that “maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists,” and so it has been with the coming-of-age fast-casual restaurant segment.

Financing

This week’s 6 head-spinning moments: Sales therapies

By Peter Romeo on May 12, 2017

Cheesecake Factory says it has a second fast-casual venture in the works, Dunkin' convenes a workforce Woodstock, Noodles clears the table and McDonald's touts its merits as a first job.

Noodles & Company shuts down 16 locations

By Benita Gingerella on Apr. 07, 2017

The shuttered locations are part of the chain’s plan to close 55 underperforming restaurants.

Operations

Restaurants play the blame game

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 02, 2017

Bad financial results have restaurant chain executives citing all kinds of factors for their top- and bottom-line difficulties, from an unexciting football season to high legal fees. Do they have a case? It depends.

Noodles makes big moves in turnaround bid

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 10, 2017

The chain is closing 55 stores and tapping new capital for store-level initiatives.

Operations

Drive-thru packaging with integrity

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 07, 2017

Consumers expect food from the drive-thru to be just as tasty and fresh as food eaten in the restaurant. Packaging is key to delivering on that expectation.

Leadership

Ed Doherty makes his own luck

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 14, 2016

Ed Doherty insists his success as a restaurant franchisee is a tale of phenomenal luck, starting with the purchase of his first restaurants in 1985.

How Ed Doherty picks a franchise

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 14, 2016

The franchised concepts run by Doherty Enterprises range from giants like Applebee’s to relative newcomers like Noodles & Company, but they sport similar traits.

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