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Chains

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.

Food

Newark Airport May Have the Best Sushi Connection to Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market

6 years ago

OTG has radically improved the dining experience at Newark's Terminal C and other airports around the U.S. In the end though, it's a long play by OTG to be ready for the day local governments allow gambling at airports. Considering the awful state of airport dining, we're happy to make this trade off.

Chains

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.

Marketing

Facebook Watch Lures Mind of a Chef From PBS

6 years ago

Facebook has realized that taking advantage of content producers desperate to get in your social feeds is not the best way to encourage creative minds. Seeing ZPZ move its Emmy-winning chef show is a signal that Facebook may be ready to grow up.

Independents

12 Destination Restaurants (Mostly) Outside of Big Cities

6 years ago

As travelers search for more authentic experiences, food will continue to top their lists.

Marketing

Donald Trump Has Become Quite the Burger Influencer in Tokyo

6 years ago

We've always said that social media "influencers" were simply the worst. We appreciated this new evidence to support our position.

Chains

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.

Food

Eataly World’s Opening Signals the Next Phase of Food Hall Expansion

6 years ago

Have we reach peak food hall? No, not even close. These playgrounds are a solution of sorts to disappearing retail by filling expensive real estate and playing to consumers’ appetites for gourmet choices and largely local, organic obsessions.

Strategy

Grubhub and OpenTable in Loyalty Partnership With Hotel Chain

6 years ago

Expect more travel brands to extend their reach into the dining experience going forward, especially since consumers have to eat every day and may only travel on occasion. And after all, the way to anyone's heart is through their stomachs, right?

Chains

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!

Chains

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.

Chains

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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