Nation's Restaurant News July 2025 With our third annual 100 Under 100 report, Nation's Restaurant News offers an exclusive look at 100 restaurant concepts with fewer than 100 locations that saw ...

New data shows restaurant visits per week have increased However, Big Chalk insights also illustrate that more trade-off consumers plan to cut their dining out budgets ...

Menu prices increase for the fifth straight month Full-service menu inflation drove the category up in June, as limited-service prices hit a three-month low ...

Tech Tracker: AI is the new executive assistant for restaurant operators and customers Many newer AI features offer personalized recommendations for business owners and consumers, from companies ...

Casual dining visits stabilized in the first half of 2025 According to Placer.ai data, May traffic was up on a visit-per-location basis for the segment ...

100 Under 100: Emerging restaurant chains take the United States by storm Meet the fastest-growing emerging restaurants in the U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

How Domino's became a tech company The pizza chain evolved from near bankruptcy into one of the most advanced companies in the restaurant business ...

More than two-thirds of current and former restaurant workers said disrespect from customers is a factor in the industry’s labor shortage, according to a new report by Black Box Intelligence ...

Red Robin plans to close dozens of underperforming restaurants The company is evaluating approximately 70 locations that generated operating losses last year ...

A closer look at Boston Market’s slow death After being sold to Rohan Group in 2020, fast-casual restaurant chain Boston Market quietly faded into obscurity until many ongoing lawsuits against ...