Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News and Datassential partner to present The Top 500, the definitive sales ranking of restaurants in America. At the end of 2022, the Top 500 restaurants ...

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 ...

It would be a mistake to say that 2022 was a return to business as usual for restaurant companies. After all, “usual” for restaurants doesn’t typically include white-hot inflation, an ...

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 ...

Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, home of the original Sweet Pork Barbacoa, is continuing to expand its footprint in the U.S., reporting five-year growth of over 50%. The popular fast casual restaurant ...

The May jobs report exceeded expectations, with 139,000 positions added to the United States economy during the month, and the unemployment rate holding steady at 4.2%. According to federal data ...

Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News and Datassential partner to present the Top 500, the definitive sales ranking of restaurants in America. In 2022, a mind-blowing 456 restaurant companies in ...

As we continue our journey through the biggest restaurants in America by segment, this week we turn our attention to the first limited-service category on our list: Bakery/Café. Every year ...

For nearly five decades, Nation’s Restaurant News has tracked the performance of the industry’s largest chains through its annual Top 200 research. And in most of those years, the data, which ...

The pizza category had a tough year in 2024. According to Technomic’s Top 500, 61% of pizza chains experienced declining sales last year, including two of the four biggest chains: Pizza Hut ...

At first glance, the Technomic Top 500 appears to show healthy growth for the biggest restaurant brands in the U.S. Sales grew by 7.8% to a robust $424 billion, while unit counts grew by 1.8% to ...

Red Robin’s turnaround plan continued to gain traction during the fourth quarter, with the company reporting 3.4% same-store sales growth Wednesday after market. The company also reported ...