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Signals from Restaurant Business
- Fat Brands franchisees pile tens of millions in claims onto bankruptcy as $1B sale tilts to lenders
- Wraps take over chain menus: Sweetgreen debuts 4, Popeyes makes Chicken Wrap permanent
- Operations beat discounts: Burger King +5.8% SSSG tops Q1 burger wars; Wendy's craters -7.8%
- Sushi by Bou plants 20th-plus outlet at NYC's FiDi Hotel, scaling speed-omakase format
- Burger King posts 5.8% comp sales gain as Q1 QSR results split winners from laggards
- Texas Roadhouse turns digital backbone into traffic engine, posts 7.1% SSSG
- QSR Franchisee Profits Collapse as Beef, Labor and Value Wars Crush Wendy's, BK, McDonald's
- Chicago restaurant boom: Boka, Levy, and global chefs unleash openings around National Restaurant Show
- Bojangles, McAlister's, Cracker Barrel scale digital catering as channel hits 20% of sales
- El Pollo Loco's Q1 turnaround clicks: 5.8% SSS, 320 bps margin gain ahead of franchise push
- Pizza Hut franchisee Chaac sues Yum Brands for $100M over mandatory Dragontail AI rollout
- Smoothie King CEO debuts Flock & Fresh, a chicken chain courting women and families
- Wendy's bleeds market share as Burger King flips 840bps performance gap, Project Fresh stalls at 25% adoption
- Papa Johns axes 10 SKUs, bets on pan pizza and ciabatta to reverse 6.4% sales slide
- Chuck E. Cheese rolls AI fraud detection to 600 locations, ties POS data to camera feeds
- Lazy Dog CEO bets on 'approachable innovation' across 51-unit chain
- Inspire Brands files confidential IPO into a market wary of multi-concept restaurant roll-ups
- Jack in the Box swaps CEOs after one year as stock craters 50% and same-store sales hit record lows
- National Restaurant Association Show returns to Chicago with 53,000+ attendees and 2,000 vendors
- Tso Chinese Takeout flips the script: tech stack first, restaurant second