In 2004, Taco Bell and Mountain Dew teamed up to launch Baja Blast, a tropical/lime-flavored beverage offered exclusively at the chain. The Baja Blast brand has since expanded into retail stores ...

Your guest experience doesn’t start at the front door — it starts in your back-of-house systems. Join Nation’s Restaurant News, PAR Technology’s CEO Savneet Singh, and PAR OPS’ GM Jason ...

As restaurants across much of the summer slide into their busiest season, the National Restaurant Association is forecasting an additional 490,000 summer jobs added to their payrolls. The ...

Barbecue restaurants are tough to run under the best of circumstances. They require skilled pitmasters to handle expensive raw materials — meat — and sell them to customers who aren’t going ...

Imagine a new restaurant opens in your town. There’s a lot of hype, excitement — people can’t wait to get in and test it out. There’s usually so much build up but now imagine: What if ...

There are several consumer signals flashing red right now, indicating that Americans are feeling pessimistic about the current (and future) state of the economy. Perhaps the most urgent signal is ...

Traffic challenges continued in the restaurant industry in the first quarter, driven by consumer uncertainty, according to the Q1 2025 Technomic Consumer and Operator Outlook. Lori Rakoczy ...

About 12.5 million people are employed at eating and drinking places in the United States. Combined with an additional 3.2 million foodservice jobs in other sectors such as healthcare ...

The March jobs report exceeded expectations, with about 228,000 positions added nationwide, according to federal data released Friday. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. The gain came in ...

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 ...

Branding is an ongoing journey, but many restaurant operators think of it as a one-time effort — something to check off a list before opening day. The effort put toward branding should never be ...

When Kirk Tanner became CEO of Wendy’s in February 2024, it was a big change — and not just because he was becoming the CEO of one of the largest restaurant companies in the U.S., one that ...