Financing

How your restaurant sales and profits compare to competitors' and what you can do to improve financial performance

Financing

10 sales-building strategies from the top independents

Here are some of the tactics the country’s leading independents—with revenues of $10 million or more—say have been most successful recently for building sales.

Financing

How the industry is fighting back against a rising minimum wage

The call to increase minimum wage is ringing louder and louder across the country. Here's how restaurants and industry interest groups are responding.

Financial and popular success don't always align in the restaurant business, but they do on this one-of-a-kind list from Restaurant Business. The publication worked with its research sister, Technomic, to rank limited-service chains by a combination of sales and customer satisfaction. It's offered here in a partnership with the popular general-business website, BusinessInsider.com.

Some operators are turning to technology and regionality to safeguard their brands.

Z’Tejas Southwestern Grill has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time since 2015 and shuttered four units.

The industry is on pace for its first positive quarter in two years, but weak traffic remains a problem.

Former Burger King executive heads group buying 70 of the restaurants in Texas.

The International Franchise Association's 2018 forecast for franchising provided more than just sales projections for franchisees and franchisors. Here are some nuggets of value to all types of restaurant operations.

The franchisor also plans to announce an acquisition within roughly the next year.

Sales rose 6.3% in the month as the industry continues its late-2017 momentum, according to the Technomic Chain Restaurant Index.

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