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Reality Check

Peter Romeo

The blog from award-winning journalist, RB Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo. Peter taps into his decades of experience covering the restaurant business at a variety of publications to discuss any number of issues related to the operations and general direction of restaurants.

Operations

Convenience stores’ issues could throw a big hurt restaurants’ way

 By Peter Romeo on Nov. 20, 2018

Forced limitations on what retailers can sell are likely to put more ready-to-eat foods on the menu.

Operations

Calif. shooting echoes a long-ago restaurant tragedy

 By Peter Romeo on Nov. 08, 2018

Remembering what happened in a Killeen, Texas, Luby’s 27 years ago.

Technology

There’s no gray in TGI Fridays’ stance on tech

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 12, 2018

It’s a black and white issue for the venerable brand: Don’t leave tech to the young upstarts.

Financing

What’s the difference between sharks and most PE investors? About 3 teeth

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 10, 2018

Yeah, there are some good ones. It’s the others that have changed the game—and tarnished the industry’s image in the process.

Leadership

Why it sucks to operate restaurants in Calif.

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 05, 2018

The last two weeks have brought a slew of new laws that affect the restaurant industry. Here’s a look, a sort of pre-Halloween scare.

Workforce

3 political developments the restaurant industry should be watching

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 18, 2018

Little-noticed ripples on the labor front hold profound implications for foodservice employers.

Leadership

Where’s the hero in the John Schnatter situation?

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 13, 2018

Schnatter's not the only one who deserves blame in what has to be a situation unmatched in its bizarreness.

Operations

5 restaurant stories you likely missed, but shouldn’t have

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 07, 2018

This week’s head-spinning moments include customers’ decision to secretly redecorate a McDonald’s and the capture of possibly the restaurant industry’s most notorious dine-and-dash artist. And it wouldn’t be a news roundup without a story involving Donald Trump.

Operations

Monkey banishment at Carrabba’s tops recent restaurant nightmares

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 05, 2018

Here’s why it was a bad month for tree swingers, politically aware operators and places with gas problems.

Operations

Did IHOP's publicity stunt hurt Applebee's?

By Peter Romeo on Aug. 17, 2018

This week's head-spinning restaurant moments included a suggestion in court that the "b" in IHOb stood for "bad news for Applebee's." That's just one of the long-shot gambles that came to light as oddsmakers considered the likelihood of restaurants charging into sports betting and who'll win the chain vs. independent bout.

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