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Chipotle’s Real Foodprint tracker shows the environmental impact of every digital order

By Alicia Kelso on Apr. 23, 2026

The chain estimates that it saved more than 616 million gallons of water and avoided more than 10,060 metric tons of carbon emissions in 2025.

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Suresh Sundas and Dante Datta innovate with Indian food & drink in D.C.'s H Street neighborhood

 By Bret Thorn and Patricia Cobe on Apr. 21, 2026

Menu Talk: The chef and beverage director of Daru and Tapori cover the gamut of South Asian culinary culture.

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Gregg Horan builds steakhouse success in the suburbs

By Patricia Cobe on Apr. 14, 2026

Menu Talk: The Greggory offers a food and drink menu, service style and ambiance that draws a crowd in South Barrington, Illinois.

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Subway and the problem with discount marketing

By Jonathan Maze on Feb. 23, 2026

The Bottom Line: This week’s edition of the restaurant finance newsletter looks at the change in Subway’s Sub Club and why its dependence on discounts keeps creating problems.

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Restaurant menus fill with Thanksgiving specials

By Patricia Cobe on Nov. 03, 2025

Taste Tracker: Arby’s, Subway, Cracker Barrel, Logan’s, Perkins, STK, P.F. Chang’s, Cowboy Chicken, Polly’s Pies, Bob Evans, Black Tap and more headline restaurant menu news and trends.

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Starbucks is adding assistant managers to its coffee shops

By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 21, 2025

The coffee shop giant is adding full-time, assistant store managers at 62 locations in California, Illinois and Texas as part of a pilot project. Starbucks plans to have them in all shops next year.

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Here's what restaurants really want this holiday

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 18, 2024

These aren’t the easiest of times. How about a fast forward on some of the new realities?

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Women restaurant owners get chance to rant about tipping, food costs and how to keep businesses alive

By Lisa Jennings on May 21, 2024

Members of Let's Talk Womxn from across the country got up on a literal soapbox during the National Restaurant Show to make their voices heard.

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How the shift to counter service has changed Steak n Shake's profitability

By Jonathan Maze on Feb. 29, 2024

The Bottom Line: Sardar Biglari, chairman of the chain’s owner Biglari Holdings, details how the addition of kiosks and counter service has transformed restaurants.

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In a show of union strength, 21 Starbucks units opt on the same day to organize

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 20, 2024

Officials of Starbucks Workers United say the one-day record signals an acceleration of the union drive. Yet the assertion comes amid indications the movement may be losing momentum.

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