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A Deeper Dive

"A Deeper Dive" is a weekly podcast from Restaurant Business dedicated to going in-depth on the most pressing challenges and opportunities restaurant operators face today, hosted by Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Maze.

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Menu Talk

“Menu Talk”, formally Menu Feed, is a weekly podcast hosted by Pat Cobe of Restaurant Business and Bret Thorn with Nation’s Restaurant News.

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Restaurant Rewind

"Restaurant Rewind" is a weekly podcast hosted by Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo as he looks at the people, concepts and trends that helped create the restaurant industry as we know it today.

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Working Lunch

Working Lunch is a podcast from Align Public Strategies devoted to explaining the so what and now what about key issues impacting the restaurant and retail industries.

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Food

Inside Chili's quest to craft a value-priced burger that could take on McDonald's

Behind the Menu: How the casual-dining chain smashes expectations with a winning combination of familiarity and price with its new Big Smasher burger.

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Financing

Here's the big problem with all these $5 meal deals

The Bottom Line: With McDonald’s planning a $5 value meal of its own, more brands are already jumping onto the bandwagon. But not everybody will pay $5.

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What did the Starbucks CEO expect?

The Bottom Line: Howard Schultz needed just one bad quarter to make public his displeasure with the coffee shop chain. But the stage was set for that two years ago.

Restaurant service charges are suddenly everywhere. What gives?

Labor Pains

Top 500 Chains

The Reinvention of Starbucks

Future 50 2023

Same-Store Sales Tracker

Technology

Back-office tech supplier Restaurant365 raises $175M

It’s the company’s second nine-figure funding round in two years and will go toward product development and acquisitions.

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Financing

Here's the big problem with all these $5 meal deals

The Bottom Line: With McDonald’s planning a $5 value meal of its own, more brands are already jumping onto the bandwagon. But not everybody will pay $5.

Workforce

Cheating on employee drug tests is at an all-time high

The likelihood of workers testing positive, particularly for marijuana use, was particularly high for workers involved in workplace accidents.

Financing

Foxtrot, Dom's file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy

But is a revival of the retail-restaurant hybrids, which shuttered all locations last month, in the works?

Operations

Struggling BurgerFi shutters 8 more restaurants

After closing 14 units last year, the fast-casual burger chain continued "right-sizing" its portfolio in the first quarter, when its same-store sales plunged 13%.

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Financing

What did the Starbucks CEO expect?

The Bottom Line: Howard Schultz needed just one bad quarter to make public his displeasure with the coffee shop chain. But the stage was set for that two years ago.

Leadership

Cousins Subs co-founder Bill Specht dies at age 80

A one-time East Coast Navy man trained to sink submarines, he found success in the Midwest selling another sort of sub.

Restaurant Business Migration

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Red Lobster to file for bankruptcy this month, report says

Recent Stories

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RATIONAL at NRA Show 2024

Fast-food menu price inflation is accelerating as deflation hits grocers

Inside Chili's quest to craft a value-priced burger that could take on McDonald's

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Here's the big problem with all these $5 meal deals

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Back-office tech supplier Restaurant365 raises $175M