EYM Pizza L.P., a Pizza Hut franchisee that filed for bankruptcy in July, is selling all 127 of its stores in Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Wisconsin, as part of a financial ...

Joanna Fantozzi is a Senior Editor for Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality. She has more than seven years of experience writing about the restaurant and hospitality industry. Her ...

The most satisfying restaurant chains, Darden’s impressive results, and what to make of MAHAThe most satisfying restaurant chains, Darden’s impressive results, and what to make of MAHA Plus, a ...

Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti announced Monday morning that he will retire in 2024, after more than two decades with the chain. The board plans to retain him as an advisor following his CEO ...

2023 Top 500: See the largest restaurant chains in America ranked by sales, units and moreThis year’s Top 500 report, which covers 2022 results, offers a look at the restaurant industry’s ...

While the primary allure to all of these stakeholders is “easy to,” that upfront ease obscures downstream friction resulting from third-party platforms. Assuming that restaurants have figured ...

The 10 biggest Bakery/Café restaurants in AmericaThese 10 restaurants, out of 22 on the full Top 500, saw more movement than the full-service segments we’ve looked at, with three experiencing ...

Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News presents the Top 500 biggest restaurants in America, ranked by systemwide sales in the previous fiscal year. This year, we’re using data from our partners ...

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 ...

Mountain Mike’s Pizza was one of the few bright spots. The California-based brand with more than 300 locations in 10 states enjoyed sales growth of 5% in 2024, while its unit count grew by 7% ...

Smoothie King Franchises Inc. opened 84 new stores in 2024 and expects to add more than 100 locations in 2025, the company said Wednesday. The privately held Dallas-based smoothie brand, in a ...

Nation's Restaurant News June 2025 NRN's June issue features the annual Technomic Top 500, which benchmarks sales and unit-count performance at the 500 biggest restaurant chains in America ...