44+ min ago  (602+ words) After ramping up hiring for the summer, food services and drinking places pulled back last month, shedding nearly 33, 000 jobs. About that improving restaurant job market: Never mind. Restaurants and bars all but wiped out their pre-summer job creation last month,…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago  (169+ words) Related: Luckin Coffee, Church's Texas Chicken, Cotton Patch Cafe Get all the headlines in today's Restaurant Daily podcast. Leigh Anne lives in New York City, but also claims Phoenix, Dallas and Cleveland as hometowns. Leigh Anne holds a bachelor's degree…...

19+ hour, 51+ min ago  (123+ words) See which stories readers couldn't get enough of. In other news, Raising Cane's is spreading its wings. The fast-growing, fast-casual chicken tenders chain has opened its first airport restaurant, located at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport's Gate B19 in Terminal B. Also,…...

20+ hour, 24+ min ago  (525+ words) There's an Italian-Southern restaurant on the bottom, and a cocktail bar on top. The chef duo behind Memphis concepts Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen, Hog & Hominy, and Catherine & Mary's have opened two new restaurants under one roof in the city's Germantown…...

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21+ hour, 4+ min ago  (564+ words) The Restaurant Academy will be free to those chosen, and coaches include a star-studded lineup of James Beard Award-winning operators. Many independent operators and managers learn on the job. The notion of leadership training is a bit of a luxury,…...

21+ hour, 29+ min ago  (103+ words) This group includes restaurant chains that saw huge sales growth last year. Every year, Nation's Restaurant News provides analysis of Technomic's annual Top 500 restaurant chains report, which ranks companies by U. S. systemwide sales. 2025 was a mixed bag for the industry. For…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (283+ words) They are available in 5, 8, 15, and 30-piece options and are served in their own mini buckets. Jollibee was one of the fastest-growing chains in the U. S. last year, generating 17% sales growth and nearly 7%-unit count growth. The Philippines-based fast-food chicken chain now…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (349+ words) The fast-casual chicken chain is featuring a rotating lineup of limited-time, housemade ranch flavors through December. Plenty of restaurant chains have responded to consumers" increasing demands for diverse sauces, and some have even begun offering sauce flights to fit the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (264+ words) The opening in Meridian expands the fast-food chicken chain's footprint to 10 states. In January, El Pollo Loco CEO Liz Williams said the company was ready to "push across the country." At the time, the chain was gearing up to enter…...