McDonald’s lured more customers to its restaurants last quarter, but that didn’t translate into stronger sales. The fast-food giant’s same-store sales declined 1.4% in the U.S. last quarter ...

The National Restaurant Association expects a big year for restaurants in 2025. The trade group expects the industry to hit $1.5 trillion in sales this year as consumers unleash “pent-up demand ...

Before each winter, restaurant owners should spend time preparing to protect their property and operations from the challenges brought by cold weather, snow, and ice. Winterizing your restaurant ...

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 ...

More than 10% of restaurants in the United States have closed permanently since the coronavirus pandemic began last March, foodservice research firm Datassential said Monday. According to Firefly ...

Comparing the performance of the restaurant industry’s Top 500 brands in 2021 with the previous year was quite a bit like comparing 2020 with 2019 — only in reverse. The same shock one felt ...

In Nation’s Restaurant News’ second year of analyzing the Technomic America’s Favorite Chains data, we found some surprising restaurants and some not-at-all surprising ones. Like last year ...

From 2019 to 2020, COVID-19 impacted the restaurant industry catastrophically, with sales plummeting 19.2%. According to the National Restaurant Association’s State of the Industry Report ...

The chicken segment is booming, and here Nation’s Restaurant News ranks the top 10 chicken chains by systemwide sales in the latest year ending in December 2018. Chick-fil-A’s massive growth ...

The Cheesecake Factory Inc. has agreed to acquire longtime incubator Fox Restaurant Concepts in a deal valued at $353 million, the company said Wednesday. The Calabasas Hills, Calif.-based casual ...

Potbelly CEO Bob Wright recently called traffic the “heartbeat of long-term health,” so when industrywide traffic started to dip at the end of last year, red lights started to flash.

For nearly five decades, Nation’s Restaurant News has tracked the performance of the industry’s largest chains through its annual Top 200 research. And in most of those years, the data, which ...