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RESTAURANT BUSINESS COLUMNISTS

RESTAURANT BUSINESS COLUMNISTS

Every day, RB brings you the best in analysis and opinion on a wide range of topics, including menu, finance, operations and technology. Check out our columns and blogs.

JONATHAN MAZE

The award-winning financial news/analysis blog from RB Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Maze, which features a companion weekly newsletter by the same name. Jonathan deals with a variety of topics as they relate to the health and direction of the overall industry, with a special emphasis on franchising, mergers and acquisition, stock price performance, sales and profitability.

PETER ROMEO

The blog from award-winning journalist, RB Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo. Peter taps into his decades of experience covering the restaurant business at a variety of publications to discuss any number of issues related to the operations and general direction of restaurants.

NANCY KRUSE

The monthly column from Menu Maven Nancy Kruse is part of RB’s extensive coverage of menu news and trends. The founder of The Kruse Co. provides her unique take on what’s going on at restaurants big and small every month.

PAT COBE

Every week, Senior Menu Editor Pat Cobe takes a look at the latest new menu news from major chains and menu trends. The column features extensive work from RB Art Director Nico Heins on a visual presentation.

JOE GUSZKOWSKI

Senior Technology Editor Joe Guszkowski looks at the week’s technology trends and news, examining the continued influx of new technologies into restaurants, including mobile ordering, delivery, artificial intelligence, virtual brands, ghost kitchens and robotics.

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Financing

As it is sold, Clean Juice struggles with supply issues

Operators have closed or rebranded nearly half of the chain’s locations over the past year and a half. And then as the chain was sold last week, franchisees were told the company lost its distribution contract.

Financing

Federal judge strikes down new joint employer rules

One business day before the new standard was to be adopted, a federal judge sided with the franchise industry and blocked adoption, saying the update goes too far.

Financing

Bob Evans puts itself on the market

The family dining restaurant chain has hired an investment bank to look for a buyer, after having considered a sale in 2022.

Financing

NYC's Gotham Restaurant files for bankruptcy protection

The Chapter 11 filing indicates the once-acclaimed restaurant's financial problems go deeper than having lost $45,000 to online scammers.

Financing

Rubio's closes 48 restaurants in California

The fast-casual taco chain, which declared bankruptcy in 2020, cited the state’s operating environment for the restaurant closures.

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