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Wingstop

Leadership

How the past lit a path through the pandemic for 5 top industry leaders

The chain CEOs vying to be Restaurant Leader of the Year explain how they found direction in key experiences from their past.

Operations

Wingstop becomes a minority investor in its UK franchisee

The fast-growing wing chain will help Lemon Pepper Holdings expand overseas.

Food

Comfort-seeking customers flocked to chicken chains in 2020

By Patricia Cobe on May 20, 2021

The leading chicken concepts in Technomic’s Top 500 sales ranking all showed positive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Operations

Wingstop is beating last April's sales explosion

By Heather Lalley on Apr. 28, 2021

Despite high wing costs, Wingstop said same-store sales are positive for April, jumping 2020's 33% comps boom.

Financing

Restaurants find it tough to find chicken

By Jonathan Maze and Heather Lalley on Apr. 28, 2021

Wingstop and KFC, among other chains, have struggled to source chickens amid intense demand and worker shortages among distributors and processors.

Leadership

How Charlie Morrison George Jetson-ed Wingstop into the future

By Heather Lalley on Apr. 26, 2021

Charlie Morrison, one of Restaurant Business’ Restaurant Leader of the Year nominees, leveraged his background in data and technology to build Wingstop into one of the country’s fastest growing brands.

Leadership

Wingstop’s CEO took a small pay cut in 2020

By Heather Lalley on Apr. 19, 2021

Charlie Morrison’s $6 million pay package included $2 million in bonuses, thanks to the wing chain’s strong pandemic performance.

Financing

These are the 10 fastest growing chains in the U.S.

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 08, 2021

Large chains dominated the list of the quickest growing concepts, according to the Technomic Top 500, as the pandemic favored big chains over small chains.

Financing

Wingstop is not just a pandemic phenomenon

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 01, 2021

The chain’s same-store sales rose 21% in the first quarter, completing a remarkable year. But its performance was improving long before quarantine, says RB's The Bottom Line.

Financing

Pizza and chicken won 2020, but burgers are catching up

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 11, 2021

RB’s The Bottom Line examines which fast-food restaurants won, and which ones lost, during a pandemic-laden year. Pizza chains like Domino's and Papa John's, and chicken wing chains like Wingstop, did best in 2020.

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