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Texas Roadhouse’s contrarian view of delivery

It's a phenomenon the casual-dining frontrunner intends to sit out. Here's why.

Marketing

This week’s restaurant nightmares, special edition: The worst

How low can restaurants sink? Farther than you may have thought, suggested industry observers who set out to find that outer boundary. Here, in a special edition of Restaurant Nightmares, are the absolute worst restaurant dishes, names and demonic collaborations.

Bad times bring bold moves, as restaurants demonstrated this week with previews of just how far they're willing to go for a business advantage.

When it comes to restaurant brands, the sales leaders are not always consumers’ favorites for a variety of reasons. Chains best at parlaying customer satisfaction into sales are hard to beat.

Hurrah for the rebel who wants no part of it.

Given the mystifying developments that arose, you’d have thought restaurants were holding their own Agatha Christie Week.

A look at the reports for public companies reveals some definite directional arrows for the industry as a whole.

See which 10 chains are winning with beef that consumers say they can’t get anywhere else.

Despite companywide same-store sales growth, the steakhouse chain calls its Bubba’s 33 spinoff "a work in progress."

The two chains playfully fight it out on social media.

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