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CKE Goes Public Pollo Tropical and its other Latin-themed brands and created a new publicly traded company, Fiesta Restaurant Group. Carrols is already Burger King’s…

The rollout is official.

Ketchup and monkey bars are a potent mix for germs. Widespread publicity about allegedly unsanitary slides and tunnels at some of the nation’s fast-food playgrounds…

More than half a dozen restaurant and convenience-store chains have jointly filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve regarding high swipe…

National restaurant chains have been saying for more than a year that Utah’s lack of liquor licenses is keeping them from opening units in the…

A recent study by The NPD Group’s restaurant analyst Bonnie Riggs adds to the fascinating body of data and analyses about how consumers at different…

Overall wholesale food prices and operator menu prices continued their moderate gains in April, with wholesale prices up 0.2% and menu prices climbing 0.3%.  Meanwhile,…

The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index reached 79.3 in the final April reading released May 25, its ninth consecutive monthly gain. It was…

The National Restaurant Association released its monthly Restaurant Performance Index data for April on May 30. To check out the trends, click