McDonald’s Spent $50 Million on TV Advertising in April

Papa John’s Claims It’s Still on Track Despite More Losses

Google Wants to Tell You What to Eat

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Red Robin’s $99 Burger Pass Is the Poor Man’s Tock

6 years ago

What do a ten-course tasting menu at Eleven Madison Park and a Red Robin cheeseburger have in common? Both restaurants want your pre-paid dollars well before service starts.

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Bloomin’ Brands May Just Be the Next of Many M&A Restaurant Deals

6 years ago

Sell them off, split them up, and move them around, sure, but it won't solve many of the underlying problems that Bloomin' and its competitors and contemporaries are having: Customers just aren't as interested in what they have to sell these days.

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McDonald’s Is Tearing Down Its First Franchised Restaurant-Turned-Museum

6 years ago

Fitting, considering the first McDonald's restaurant run by the McDonald brothers was torn down decades ago after Kroc took over the family name and the chain.

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Papa John’s Turns to Twitter to Deflate Criticism After NFL Blame Game

6 years ago

Papa John's problem is not the NFL. It is bad pizza and the presence of its CEO in all its advertising. Time to ditch the creep factor on the latter, and do a Domino's-level improvement on the former.

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Secret Ingredient: Cracker Barrel’s Hip Biscuit Concept Holler & Dash

6 years ago

You might feel young and hip eating at at Holler & Dash, and that's by design — from parent company Cracker Barrel. Surprise!

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Fast Food Chains Are Exporting Obesity and Diabetes as They Expand Abroad

6 years ago

New international markets are providing huge growth opportunities for American fast food chains. As these companies change the fundamentals of the food landscapes abroad, they have a responsibility to those they feed — and they should act as such.

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Buffalo Wild Wings Gets Takeover Offer by Private Equity Firm

6 years ago

The per-share offer is more that BWW is trading at now, but significantly below last year's number. This is not the best news for the company's long-term health.

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Starbucks Tries Another Kind of Expansion With an Italian Bakery Chain

6 years ago

Starbucks struck out with La Boulange as well as Teavana. Has it learned something from these two disappointing expansions/integrations that will help its Princi play?

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Panera’s Parent Company Is Buying Au Bon Pain Bakery Chain

6 years ago

Au Bon Pain has some excellent legacy locations inside airports, train stations, and urban hubs, but it's struggled to remain relevant or a place that people actually decide to go to rather than simple settle on.

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Wendy’s Falls Behind Peers as Competitors Up Their Burger Game

6 years ago

Wendy's upgrades in the last few years have made it more fast casual adjacent than just fast food. It will need to do more to distinguish its offerings as McDonald's and others improve food quality and get more creative with pricing.

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What a Norwegian Rest Stop Tells Us About the Future of Fast Food

6 years ago

Longer times to fuel up electric cars means more opportunity to serve higher-quality (and more expensive) food to the wealthier clientele who can afford to drive them. In this case, there will be a trickle down effect that will likely mean better food for everyone.

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Why Cheesecake Factory’s Sales Drop Isn’t Terrible News for the Mall Chain

6 years ago

Becoming the “treat yourself” standard among mall chains is a much better position to be in than the indistinguishable option offered by TGI Friday’s, Ruby Tuesday, Chili’s, and their peers.

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