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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 Feed”, 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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Financing

Here's a business tool to keep restaurant executives employed after a tough Q1

Reality Check: The first 3 months of 2024 weren’t easy on restaurant chains, but spin-doctoring proved to be. Indeed, there must have been a run on shovels.

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Food

The Taiwanese wheel cake may just become the next cronut

Behind the Menu: Money Cake opens in New York, tempting pastry fans with the waffle-cream puff hybrid.

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Technology

Are consumers ordering less delivery? It depends on who you ask

Tech Check: There are signs that demand is slowing. But some are finding the convenience too good to quit.

Restaurant service charges are suddenly everywhere. What gives?

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The Reinvention of Starbucks

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Operations

Playing the reservation game

Nancy Kruse and Lisa Jennings discuss restaurant reservation scalpers, cancellation fees and what to do when you can't get into the hottest concept in town.

Financing

Red Lobster owner expects to sell its share of the chain this year

Thai Union Group is “actively engaged” in negotiations with potential buyers for its stake in the struggling seafood chain.

Financing

Increased marketing spending did not help Papa Johns' sales in April

A softer consumer environment is more than offsetting the pizza chain’s boost in marketing in recent weeks. But profitability improved last quarter.

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Food

The Taiwanese wheel cake may just become the next cronut

Behind the Menu: Money Cake opens in New York, tempting pastry fans with the waffle-cream puff hybrid.

Technology

McDonald's is making a massive investment in digital marketing

The fast-food giant is shifting spending to digital marketing and plans to invest “hundreds of millions” into digital innovation, including new ordering channels, personalization and loyalty.

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Technology

Are consumers ordering less delivery? It depends on who you ask

Tech Check: There are signs that demand is slowing. But some are finding the convenience too good to quit.

Operations

Sweetgreen inches closer to profitability

Despite flat traffic for the first quarter, the fast-casual salad chain raised guidance for the year, citing continuing momentum.

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Federal prosecutors accuse Andy Wiederhorn of misusing company funds

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Here's a business tool to keep restaurant executives employed after a tough Q1

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McDonald’s, looking to boost traffic, considers a $5 value meal

Federal prosecutors accuse Andy Wiederhorn of misusing company funds

Earnings roundup: One Group, Topgolf, Potbelly, Chuy's, PFG, Bombshells, Olo, Toast

McDonald's is making a massive investment in digital marketing

Are consumers ordering less delivery? It depends on who you ask

Red Lobster owner expects to sell its share of the chain this year