The May jobs report exceeded expectations, with 139,000 positions added to the United States economy during the month, and the unemployment rate holding steady at 4.2%. According to federal data ...

The pizza category had a tough year in 2024. According to Technomic’s Top 500, 61% of pizza chains experienced declining sales last year, including two of the four biggest chains: Pizza Hut ...

Blaze Pizza has named Jaime Denney as chief operations officer, the company confirmed Tuesday. Atlanta-based Blaze said Denney joins the company with more than 25 years of leadership experience in ...

Kura Sushi went public in 2019 and has continued to generate momentum since, turning in a year-over-year sales increase of 26.9% in 2024 to reach nearly $238 million. Its footprint grew by 28% in ...

This week on Nation's Restaurant News, the top story was “Denny’s CEO Kelli Valade shares how the restaurant chain can maintain the title of ‘America’s Favorite Diner.’” In the second ...

This year’s Technomic Top 500 results were a mixed bag for the restaurant industry. On one hand, many large restaurant brands stagnated in 2023, with sales increases merely a reflection of menu ...

The dessert/snack segment had a stellar year last year, with nine of the 10 biggest chains seeing an increase in systemwide sales, seven of those being at least a double-digit percentage increase.

Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News and Datassential partner to present The Top 500, the definitive sales ranking of restaurants in America. At the end of 2022, the Top 500 restaurants ...

In search of my first job at the age of 16, I stopped by the local Burger King and was fortunate to be hired at the going rate of $1.80 an hour. That first job turned into a 50-year restaurant ...

Last year was a volatile one for the full-service sports bar segment, with chains in the Top 10 by systemwide sales seeing growth as high as 67% and declines as low as -11%. In the annual Top ...

Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News and Datassential partner to present the Top 500, the definitive sales ranking of restaurants in America. In 2022, a mind-blowing 456 restaurant companies in ...

After lingering menu-price inflation helped drive sales gains in the high single digits at the nation’s largest restaurant chains in 2023, the industry appears to be settling into a more typical ...