The restaurant industry continues to face challenges even after the COVID-19 pandemic with inflation, rising costs, and changing consumer behavior. Every restaurant faces the same question: How do ...

Is the golden age of the pizza chain over? While the nation’s largest pizza brands had a shining moment during the pandemic as a category uniquely well-equipped to handle the abrupt shift to off ...

Outback Steakhouse wants to fix its value perception. Executives said the chain has lost share to steakhouse competitors on value, which includes pricing and food quality. Applebee’s is also ...

Over the years, Nation’s Restaurant News has supported a number of nonprofit organizations that either benefit members of the restaurant industry or actively work through the restaurant industry ...

Houston-based Pappas Restaurants plans to acquire On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina following an auction process for the Dallas-based chain, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March.

Noodles & Company’s brand transformation, centered around its March 12 menu relaunch, appears to be bearing fruit, but the fast-casual chain still has underperforming restaurants to close, chief ...

The United States economy shrank in the first quarter of 2025, according to a report released by the Commerce Department on Wednesday, with the gross domestic product reading coming in at -0.3%.

Shaken consumer confidence and economic uncertainty helped push down first-quarter profits at Restaurant Brands International Inc., its chief executive said Thursday. “Through the first few ...

Raising Cane’s is now a top 20 restaurant brand by domestic sales. It didn’t take long to get there. The chain is only 28 years old, after all. Raising Cane’s finished 2024 at No. 18 with a ...

On this week’s Extra Serving, NRN editor in chief Sam Oches and executive editor Alicia Kelso recap the week in Q1 earnings reports, which saw results from companies like Yum Brands, Brinker ...

Gavin Kaysen is a star in his hometown of Minneapolis, where his Soigné Hospitality Group’s multiple concepts delight local customers, but he’s flexing beyond the Twin Cities to Florida ...

Flynn Group, the world’s largest franchise operator, has added pay-at-the-table technology from Ziosk at its more than 460 Applebee’s locations. The partnership features Ziosk’s z Mini ...