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The January and mid-February readings on consumer confidence from Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan and The Conference Board indicated that consumers remain reasonably optimistic about the…

Several states whose economies and restaurant sales were most affected by the housing crash during the Great Recession are forecast to post some of the…

Maybe the heating bills haven’t shown up yet, but the severe winter weather in many parts of the country and a couple of weak jobs…

Following five months of flat or negative changes, wholesale food prices jumped significantly in January at both the final and intermediate demand stages, according to…

The number of restaurant units in the U.S. grew at only a 0.7% pace for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2013, according to data…

What’s surprising about January’s Restaurant Performance Index from the National Restaurant Association is how little the severe winter weather in much of the country affected…

Wholesale food prices rose again in February at both the final and intermediate demand stages, according to Producer Price Index data from the Bureau of…

Visits to restaurants during breakfast now account for 21% of all restaurant occasions, according to CREST data from The NPD Group, which released meal-period traffic…

While winter’s negative impact on restaurant and tavern sales also is apparent in the U.S. Census Bureau’s retail sales numbers, the latest advance estimate, released…

The severe winter weather in as much as two-thirds of the U.S. has cut dramatically into restaurant and other foodservice sales, according to new research…