Panera is slowly closing FDFs nationally.

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration is giving the food world more time to comply with looming regulations on food traceability. The Food Traceability Rule, an element of the Food Safety Modernization ...

An engaged employee is a happier employee, and a happier employee works harder, is less likely to quit, and is better at serving customers. Those are the key findings in the inaugural quarterly ...

If there’s one universal truth in the restaurant industry, it’s that attracting and retaining top talent is paramount — and can be difficult, but doesn’t have to be. As part of our ...

Building strong community partnerships isn’t just about giving back — it’s also a strategic advantage. At Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken, we’ve seen firsthand how meaningful collaborations ...

On this week’s Extra Serving, NRN editor in chief Sam Oches and executive editor Alicia Kelso start by talking about Alicia’s recent trip to Atlanta, where she visited Zaxby’s ...

Chick-fil-A has expanded its microgrid test to a third restaurant in California. The test, in partnership with SolMicroGrid, began in 2021 as a way to harvest energy on sunny days to run the ...

After a challenging 2024 that included four straight quarters of same-store sales declines, Starbucks is no longer the world’s most valuable restaurant brand, according to a new “Restaurants ...

Krispy Kreme announced Monday that the company will be launching its first expansion to Brazil. The Charlotte, N.C.-based doughnut chain will open its first restaurant in São Paulo in late April ...

The owner of Taco Bell is about to get a big new partner in its technology drive: The AI chipmaker Nvidia. Yum Brands announced a partnership with the Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia to bring ...

Golden Corral, a buffet-style midscale restaurant chain based in Raleigh, N.C., opened its fast-casual offshoot Homeward Kitchen in fall 2023. Earlier this month, the company announced it would ...