Emerging restaurant brands are no doubt fun to follow. They’re often bringing new menu and branding ideas to the table, tapping into consumer trends in creative ways that showcase a glimpse into ...

Chick-fil-A once again outpaced every other restaurant brand in this year’s American Customer Satisfaction Index, released today. The perennial favorite for nine years running scored an 85 on ...

Starbucks announced that the company will be expanding its community stores initiative — which began in 2015 with 14 locations — to 100 stores by 2025. The community stores are meant to serve ...

Dessert has been a massive emerging category for foodservice for several years now as younger generations switch up their dining out habits from full meals to treats and snacks. For quite some ...

Sam’s Club is getting into the pizza delivery business. The Walmart-owned retailer said all its locations will offer pizza delivery by the end of May. The pizzas are $8.98 and can arrive in ...

The founder of the Slater’s 50/50 burger chain has agreed to sell his six restaurants and brand intellectual property to Elite Restaurant Group. Terms were not disclosed, but Slater’s founder ...

It took 18 years for Twin Peaks to hit its 100 th location, which it did at the end of May with a location near Indianapolis. If all goes to plan, it will take just five years to open the next 100 ...

Restaurants often deal with a restive employee base, but the pandemic and ensuing labor shortage have left an impact, according to a survey of restaurants workers in December. More than one in ...

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 ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March, 17% of restaurants (or about 110,000 establishments) have closed either permanently or long-term, and 10,000 restaurants have closed over the last three ...

Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News presents the Top 500 biggest restaurants in America, ranked by systemwide sales in the previous fiscal year. This year, we’re using data from our partners ...

Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News and Datassential partner to present the Top 500, the definitive sales ranking of restaurants in America. In 2022, a mind-blowing 456 restaurant companies in ...