While many concepts, like McDonald’s and Portillo’s, are targeting the fast-growing Southwest and Southeast regions for growth, Chick-fil-A is heading in a different direction, this week ...

An ongoing theme in the Q4 earnings season was menu price increases at restaurants. Chains across every segment, from quick service to casual dining, are raising prices for a variety of reasons ...

Arby’s franchisee Miracle Restaurant Group LLC, based in Covington, La., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in its history. The operator of 25 Arby’s locations ...

NRN presents Consumer Picks, a data-driven report on customer preference and restaurant brand strength. Data for this report is provided by market research firm Datassential. Find out more about ...

Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News presents the Top 500 report in collaboration with Datassential, ranking restaurant chains by U.S. systemwide sales. In 2021, 340 of those 500 restaurants had ...

When George Floyd was murdered at the hands of police one year ago, the nation had enough, and protests led by the Black Lives Matter movement broke out across the country. Goals of these protests ...

This post is part of the Reporter's Notebook blog. The restaurant hostess of the future may be visiting tables via “telepresence robot” like the Beam, which can walk and talk, but has no hands ...

Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants isn’t so much a casual-dining concept as it is a lifestyle chain for wine lovers. The Countrywide, Ill.-based concept surged again in the Latest Year ...

House Democrats introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 on Tuesday which would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, and phase out the subminimum tipped wage that allows ...

Consumers may be getting to-go more often, but they still want their restaurants to have free WiFi. That’s one lesson from a session on what differentiates winning restaurants right now.

Beverage innovation has really picked up steam in recent years. That makes sense given the slowdown in traffic at restaurants, which means operators want to encourage their customers to spend as ...

U.S. restaurant industry sales will reach a record high of $863 billion this year, up 3.6% over last year, according to a report released today by the National Restaurant Association. “The ...