Wingstop

6 chains winning with Hispanic families

By Jill Failla on Apr. 03, 2017

Hispanic customers who recently dined out with children younger than 18 years old rated their favorite restaurant chains in a Technomic survey. These are the brands currently winning Hispanic family-dining occasions.

Top 500 Chains

Wingstop

Jun. 12, 2017

The fast-casual wings chain launched voice ordering through Amazon’s Alexa platform

Operations

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Unsolved mysteries

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 10, 2017

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

Financing

How Wingstop fixed its election problem

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 11, 2018

After a rare decline in same-store sales a year ago, the company started advertising and quickly recovered.

Leadership

Flynn Dekker resigns as Wingstop CMO

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 19, 2018

The marketing chief will take a sabbatical to spend time with his family.

Entrepreneur of the Month: Jim Flynn

By Joan M. Lang on Oct. 01, 2010

Since joining the chicken-wing specialist in 2003, Jim Flynn has presided over 28 consecutive quarters of sales growth, keeping the 16-year-old chain in expansion mode despite the troubled economy.

2016 Top 500 restaurant chains

Jun. 21, 2016

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.

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