Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant has closed three locations in the Philadelphia market, including its original brewpub in Newark, Del., which opened in 1996. The company cited a “changing business ...

Starbucks workers in Illinois, Colorado, and California have sued the company, claiming its new dress code policy is unlawful because they were not reimbursed for required clothing purchases. The ...

Third-party delivery platforms continue to lead the way with new digital tools and bells and whistles for operator partners. DoorDash is at the front of the pack. Just over the past year, DoorDash ...

There have been plenty of comments from plenty of major restaurant executives about a pullback in spending among lower-income consumers. Some have even warned that middle-income consumers are ...

For years, restaurants assumed the challenge with Gen Z would be about digital habits or menu preferences. But my research shows something more fundamental. Gen Z has arrived without the shared ...

The United States Census Bureau defines 12 states as Midwestern: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. With a total ...

FAT Brands announced Wednesday the return of Andy Wiederhorn as CEO of the Fazoli’s and Round Table Pizza parent company. Wiederhorn stepped down as chief executive in May 2023 as part of an ongoing ...

How does a restaurant company achieve scale? The easy answer is to suggest that, in this industry, chains equal scale: Replicating a concept into multiple locations magnifies its impact and potential.

It’s no surprise to anyone running a restaurant right now that we’re in a high-cost environment and finding ways to trim those costs has become more critical than perhaps ever. Of course, that’s ...

Restaurant profitability has worsened since before the pandemic. According to the National Restaurant Association, median income before taxes at full-service restaurants is just 2.8% of revenues, ...

Rick Cardenas is a unicorn in the restaurant industry. The chief executive officer of Darden Restaurants started as a bus boy at Red Lobster — a brand that would later be a part of Darden before being ...

The intensifying value environment may finally be starting to yield some positive results more than a year after McDonald’s fired the first (or, at least, the biggest) salvo with its $5 Meal Deal ...