Fast-food chain Wendy's is launching a multimillion-dollar marketing drive to ramp up sales of its biscuits, breakfast burritos, and cold brews.
Americans flocked to the suburbs during the coronavirus pandemic and now these neighborhoods are the newest market for restaurants and retailers looking to follow their customers.
"For me, it's not political - most of my customers are vaccinated," the manager of Pasticceria Rocco in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, told the New York Post.
Fast-food restaurants like Panda Express and KFC are embracing the plant-based food craze as demand for meatless options rises.
Americans are taking their time finding work. The longer they wait, the more it will kickstart the age of automation. Restaurants are leading the way.
While restaurants were bleeding workers, Amazon went on a hiring spree. It may be difficult for chains to lure workers back from Amazon warehouses.
The Midwestern fast-food chain Culver's is known for its ButterBurgers, special frozen custards, low prices, and hospitality.
Five Guys' ghost kitchen in Garland, Texas, doesn't have a dining room. Instead, you have to order on its website, its app, or a delivery service.
An increase in take-out orders has caused ketchup sales to spike. At the onset of the pandemic, sales were up over 300% from the prior year.
Restaurants are experiencing an uptick in sales from the second-round of stimulus checks, with consumers spending money eating out. Analysts don’t expect that the sales improvement will last long, as pandemic dining restrictions remain in place. Restaurants have been calling for more federal funds and financial relief as they operate […]
Friendly’s, the fast-casual chain known for its ice cream and diner-style menu items, opened in 1935. Founded by brothers Prestley and Curtis Blake, Friendly’s has gone through a number of ups and downs throughout the chain’s lengthy history, from lawsuits to family feuds and two bankruptcy filings. At the chain’s […]
On Thursday, FAT Brands announced it would purchase retro-diner chain Johnny Rockets for $US25 million. FAT Brands CEO Andy Wiederhorn spoke to Business Insider about why the company chose to make the purchase during the pandemic, and what FAT plans to do with Johnny Rockets. Take a look at the […]
Virtual restaurants are invisible, but their numbers are growing during the pandemic. They are delivery-only brands that seem to be local restaurants or separate chains, but are owned by and operated out of the kitchens of giant chains. Some are more transparent about their true identity and origins than others. […]
Ruby Tuesday has quietly closed over 150 restaurants since January 23 and scrubbed them from its website. Ruby Tuesday has been shedding locations for years as it struggles to win younger consumers, and its casual dining concept makes it especially poorly positioned to weather the pandemic’s sudden shift to delivery. […]
McDonald’s operates more than 34,000 restaurants worldwide in 118 countries, but some locations are more uniquely designed than others. Around the world, McDonald’s restaurants can be found inside historic train stations, decommissioned planes, and even century-old colonial mansions. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories . McDonald’s restaurants are among […]
Garden Fresh, which owns salad buffet chains Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes, announced on May 8 that it would file for bankruptcy. Plagued by bankruptcy filings, food poisoning incidents, and millennial disdain, buffets were struggling well before the coronavirus pandemic began. From 1998 to 2017, the number of buffet restaurants decreased […]
Restaurant owners in the US are wondering what life will look like when the country fully emerges from lockdown. Many are looking toward China for direction as it slowly resumes normal life and dining out becomes an option again. Restaurants across China and Hong Kong have made drastic changes to […]