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If you missed it last week in FER Fortnightly, the number of restaurants in the U.S. fell for the second year in a row. We…

Manitowoc Foodservice made its official debut March 4 as an independent, publicly traded company following its previously announced spinoff from The Manitowoc Co. Hubertus Muehlhaeuser,…

The restaurant market may be booming in San Francisco, but the health risks might be as well. Operators, already having a tough time finding and…

A New York appeals court on Monday temporarily stopped the city from enforcing a new rule requiring chain restaurants to post warnings on menu items…

The NPD Group will host its 2016 Foodservice Summit April 6-7 in Chicago. This year’s theme is “The Path To Consumption: How Customers Choose.” Summit…

Rock and roll will never die, if you measure it by the unit growth at the 45-year-old Orlando, Fla.-based Hard Rock Café. The chain added…

We often say the restaurant market in the U.S. is “mature.” The NPD Group’s foodservice research practice, based in Rosemont, Ill., released restaurant unit-count data…

As we suspected, the sharp drops in equities prices in January spooked operators who responded to the National Restaurant Association’s December Restaurant Performance Index in…