FAT Brands announced Wednesday the return of Andy Wiederhorn as CEO of the Fazoli’s and Round Table Pizza parent company. Wiederhorn stepped down as chief executive in May 2023 as part of an ongoing ...

McDonald’s chief executive officer Chris Kempczinski appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box earlier this week, discussing everything from the pressures lower income consumers are currently facing to the ...

The Common Man is a group of restaurants and other hospitality venues embedded in New Hampshire. “We’ve never ventured outside of the state, nor do we have any desire to,” chief executive officer ...

Bravo Brio Restaurants LLC and subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company said Monday. The Orlando, Fla.-based parent to the casual-dining Bravo! Italian Kitchen and ...

Rick Cardenas is a unicorn in the restaurant industry. The chief executive officer of Darden Restaurants started as a bus boy at Red Lobster — a brand that would later be a part of Darden before being ...

President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and federal agents to Washington, D.C., last week, has apparently been bad for the city’s restaurant business. According to new data from OpenTable, ...

As the foodservice technology landscape rapidly evolves, connecting with fellow restaurant tech professionals is more important than ever. This September, FSTEC — the three-day foodservice technology ...

Restaurants that sell alcohol reap the benefits of big sales, big margins, and veto vote power. Alcohol sales for big chains are in the hundreds of millions on an annual basis, according to Technomic ...

Welcome to the Sandwich Showdown, the 10 th Showdown from Nation’s Restaurant News. In this iteration, we are pitting six emerging sandwich brands against each other to determine which one our readers ...

On this week’s Extra Serving, NRN editor in chief Sam Oches and executive editor Alicia Kelso try to dissect 2025’s bizarre second quarter and the flashing warning signs that the industry sees in ...

White Castle, the quick-service slider brand, will open its first restaurant in Texas in 2026, the company announced Thursday. The 104-year-old Columbus, Ohio-based brand said the restaurant will open ...

Restaurant brands were quick to jump on the Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift engagement announcement Tuesday with promotional tie-ins ranging from pizzas to onion rings. While the Instagram announcement by ...