The gap in restaurant performance is widening. New data from Revenue Management Solutions reveals high-performing brands are taking market share at an accelerated pace. While 37% of restaurants ...

Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN), the premier publication serving the entire foodservice industry, announced five winners in its annual Hot Concepts awards. This year’s Hot Concepts, powered by ...

App-less rewards programs could be the next big trend in digital loyalty Portillo’s and Birdcall recently introduced loyalty programs without mobile apps, instead relying on POS and digital ...

“The Bacon Brothers are the perfect keynote to welcome CREATE back to Music City — Nashville — giving a musical performance attendees won’t soon forget,” Oches said. “We named this ...

Restaurant brands have long turned to their fans to help create menu items and content, but that strategy has been in overdrive lately. The latest example is Taco Bell, which today launched a new ...

This week on Nation's Restaurant News, the top story was “2025 100 Under 100: Emerging restaurant chains with staggering results.” Unit growth among the Top 500 brands in 2024 wasn’t ...

In 2025, restaurant groups face more financial complexity than ever before. Growth through franchising, acquisitions, and private equity investment has added layers of operational and reporting ...

Restaurant brands leverage the growing popularity of the WNBA As the league’s game attendance and TV viewership set records, more chains are partnering with popular players and sponsoring teams ...

Consumer spending at small restaurants slowed in June Data from Fiserv shows month-over-month declines in transactions and foot traffic ...

Most consumers plan to reduce their restaurant spending New data from Popmenu finds that 67% of Americans are reducing spending on everything, with 61% pulling back on dining out ...

Earlier this week, we examined limited-service burger chains with the highest (and lowest) average unit volumes, an important metric that partially illustrates the health of the brand, including ...

Menu prices continued to climb in May Kalinowski Equity Research notes that restaurant same-store sales are sluggish because the gap between grocery and menu prices remains wider than historical ...