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Chain restaurants
Casual restaurant chains like Olive Garden see declining sales
Mar 26, 2024
Darden Restaurants, which owns chains like Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse, had its first same-store sales decline since the pandemic.
On McDonald's Investor Day, more data on how its small format restaurants are doing
Dec 6, 2023
With changing patterns of dining, how are small format restaurants, like McDonald's CosMc, shaping up?
"Endless shrimp" and other deals can backfire on restaurants
Dec 1, 2023
If bargain hunters skimp on the add-ons, the business may have to eat a loss. For Red Lobster, it was $11 million last quarter.
Want to make friends from a different economic class? Try your local Applebee’s
Oct 20, 2023
Full-service chain restaurants attract people from different income brackets and represent a way to break down class barriers, research shows.
Franchises are big business, but they're adjusting to economic headwinds
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Matt Levin
Sep 22, 2023
Franchisees get help with marketing and branding, but the corporate parent can’t do much about high interest rates and labor costs.
How the buyer of Subway could turn around the struggling sandwich chain
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Henry Epp
Aug 25, 2023
A private equity firm has agreed to buy Subway. It may need to close stores in the U.S., but expand overseas.
Why big brands like Chipotle are heading to Small Town, U.S.A.
Jul 19, 2023
Restaurant chains are following people who've left cities since the pandemic, but the expansion presents challenges.
For public good, not for profit.
Wendy's turned an old restaurant into a test lab
Nov 9, 2017
With sales under pressure, the chain is looking at new ways of doing business.
I went to the world's largest Applebee's to figure out why chain restaurants are dying
Oct 20, 2017
The decline of chain restaurants coincides with the growth in income disparities.