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Tariffs are hitting restaurants

The Week in Restaurants: In this week’s episode of the restaurant news discussion podcast, we discuss earnings and problematic beef and other costs.

Tariffs are taking a bite out of the restaurant business.

In this week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast The Week in Restaurants, we look at the most recent slate of industry earnings.

There were some fascinating results from Chipotle, Starbucks, Shake Shack and Restaurant Brands International. We discuss those earnings. 

In addition, we look at Greg Flynn’s agreement to develop 7 Brew locations. Joe Guszkowski discusses the AWS outage on Tech Check.

But we also talk beef costs and tariffs, and how they’re impacting industry profits. 

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