These restaurants closed hundreds of stores in 2024
Dec 19, 2024 · 2024 marked a year of major closures for restaurant chains. For some companies, like Red Lobster, TGI Fridays and Rubio’s, these preceded Chapter 11 filings.Other closures, like Denny’s and Wendy’s, targeted underperforming stores to improve overall system performance.
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Inside KFC’s tech-centric concept | Restaurant Dive
Dec 19, 2024 · Saucy by KFC opened December 2024 as a spinoff concept from KFC that offers 11 sauces and chicken tenders as well as 11 beverage options. Permission granted by Saucy by KFC
Maggiano’s is just getting started with menu updates, remodels
Nov 21, 2024 · In his first months as the chain’s VP of innovation and growth, Anthony Amoroso helped create new menu items like Rigatoni al la Vodka and updated the Caesar salad, both of which are already driving sales.
Thrive Restaurant Group buys Modern Market Eatery
Sep 6, 2024 · Dive Insight: Thrive, which operates over 190 restaurants across six brands including Applebee’s and Qdoba, previously purchased three Modern Market units in Austin, Texas, and built two Modern Market units in the Kansas City area, the press release said.
The top restaurant trends in 2024 | Restaurant Dive
Oct 7, 2024 · Restaurant owners entered 2024 feeling optimistic, according to data from the Square 2024 Future of Restaurants report.. The industry has embraced technology solutions to tackle staffing, process, and efficiency challenges.
The restaurant industry’s top 3 winners and losers of 2024
Dec 17, 2024 · 2024 was a mixed bag for the restaurant industry. Restaurants faced an uptick in bankruptcies and ongoing challenges related to rising labor and operating costs. Others have closed hundreds of underperforming locations in an attempt to improve the overall health of their systems. Despite this backdrop of challenges, several chains, including Cava, Taco Bell and Chipotle, had stellar years ...
Study: Chick-fil-A leads in drive-thru satisfaction, Taco Bell in speed
Oct 7, 2024 · Dive Brief: Chick-fil-A has the highest customer satisfaction scores at the drive-thru, while Taco Bell leads in speed of service and total time, per Intouch Insight’s 2024 drive-thru study.; Intouch Insight combined its statistics for Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s and added Raising Cane’s, bringing the total number of brands visited by secret shoppers for the study to 11.
Zaxbys is coming to Maryland - Restaurant Dive
Oct 11, 2024 · Dive Brief: Zaxbys will open its first Maryland restaurant next year in Cambridge, a city on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, with two more to follow in Easton and West Ocean City/Berlin, the brand said Friday. The three franchised Eastern Shore locations will be built by a family of local real estate developers: Curtis Snyder, Teresa Snyder and …
Cava’s new loyalty program to go national in October
Aug 26, 2024 · Dive Insight: In late 2023, Cava switched to a points-based program from a transaction-based model. Members earn 10 points for every dollar spent and can “load food beverage, store credit, percentage discounts and other items available,” to their accounts, according to the terms and conditions.Schulman, in a previous interview, said this change was a placeholder while the brand worked on a ...