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Future 50 (2020)

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The Future 50

This year’s class of America’s up-and-coming chains faces an uncertain future. But as the coronavirus hit, these small and innovative concepts were characteristically quick to adapt, repacking menu items into meal kits, creating pop-up drive-thrus and more. Here’s a look at how they got here, and where they plan to go next.

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Top 500 Chains

May 13, 2020

The Top 500 highest-grossing restaurant chains recorded their best overall performance in five years in 2019.

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Timeline: How today’s restaurant industry came to be

By Peter Romeo and Myra Engers Weinberg on Feb. 21, 2019

Here are some key milestones from the last 100 years.

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Concepts gone but not forgotten

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 19, 2019

Bold attempts to disrupt the business often fizzled, but not before influencing the industry’s direction.

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How the state and national restaurant associations dovetail

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 19, 2019

As the entities continue to work together to support the industry, a formal document sets out the rules of interaction.

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Confessions of a time traveler

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 19, 2019

Here's what Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo learned trekking through 100 years of the restaurant industry.

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There from the beginning

By Sara Rush Wirth on Feb. 19, 2019

A deep dive into the industry’s history sheds light on where we’re going.

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How We Got Here: 1940s

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 19, 2019

The eruption of World War II brought shortages of food, equipment and labor—precisely as demand for meals prepared outside the home soared to 60 million meals per day, triple the prewar level. Some es...

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How We Got Here: 1970s

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 19, 2019

The decade kicked off with an industrywide promotional campaign that would live on for years and whose tagline would ultimately be “borrowed” by the city of Chicago for its tourism promotion efforts: “We’re Glad You’re Here.”

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