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2025 marked a busy year for the restaurant sector. As private equity firms leaned further into the franchise business model ...

Franchising is a unique business model. Its roots go back centuries, but within the restaurant industry, the first applications occurred in the 1920s, with A&W and White Castle being notable early ...

Black food entrepreneurs have always done more with less: flipping recipes, reclaiming space, and serving culture one plate at a time. Whether you’re pulling up curbside with a food truck or locking ...

Restaurant models are generally imperfect. Ninety-nine percent of the time there are clear negatives to every model. As an example, let’s talk about the traditional model for a coffee business. The ...

The chain will move most of its roughly 400 licensed locations to an owner-operator model, allowing guests to access its app ...

Alarm bells should be ringing for casual dining restaurants, large and small, because an unstoppable wave of disruption is coming. They will soon find themselves in a price war with U.K. tech startup ...

A chef poured his entire soul into his beloved Café Miranda in Rockland, Maine. Then came the ‘apocalypse’ — and a reckoning with the demands he had put on employees. At the beginning of the pandemic, ...

ST. PAUL — “Come as you are. Give as you can.” It’s a restaurant model you don’t see every day. And during the season of giving, we turn our attention toward a unique restaurant with a philosophy just ...

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