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How your restaurant sales and profits compare to competitors' and what you can do to improve financial performance

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Cracker Barrel puts its hope in catering

By Jonathan Maze on Feb. 20, 2018

The family-dining chain is confident in the future of its takeout business.

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Bravo Brio to be sold to GP Investments for $100M

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 08, 2018

The owner of Bravo Cucina Italiana and Brio Tuscan Grille will be acquired in an all-cash deal.

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Restaurant brand culture matters: Tim Hortons’ problems in Canada tell us why

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 12, 2018

Restaurant Brands International is getting resistance from the chain’s operators that it didn’t get with Burger King, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

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This week’s 6 head-spinning moments: Sales therapies

By Peter Romeo on May 12, 2017

Cheesecake Factory says it has a second fast-casual venture in the works, Dunkin' convenes a workforce Woodstock, Noodles clears the table and McDonald's touts its merits as a first job.

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Buying potatoes, the comeback kid

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 13, 2006

The potato has been bashed more often than mashed these last couple of years, as carbohydrate-phobic Americans pushed spuds off their plates and consumption took a nosedive.

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Questions for your broadline distributor

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 13, 2007

Distributors describing themselves as broadline, or full-line, vary greatly in terms of the product lines they carry. Is it really a one-stop shop?

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Borrow from a credit union?

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 12, 2006

Across the country, credit unions are expanding their loan programs as small- to medium-sized businesses seek alternatives to traditional funding sources like larger banks.

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What's happening at the table across the pond

By Patricia Cobe on May 23, 2011

Restaurant Business sat down with Peter Backman, managing director with Horizons, a London-based foodservice consultancy, to compare restaurant trends in the U.S. and the U.K.

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