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Achieving positive momentum is difficult in a business environment deformed by recession, terrorism and wars. Yet the operators of the restaurant concepts that make up the 38th annual rankings of [...]

With sales momentum and customers lost to swift and unfriendly socio-economic currents, the year past brought many challenges to independent restaurants. Operations that take their place among Restaurants and Institutions' [...]

Restaurateurs, take heart: Consumers across the country are refusing to bite the hands that feed them. While the struggling economy is exacting a toll on consumers' discretionary spending habits, dining [...]

The 1993 rankings of the top 400 restaurants and food delivery companies are presented. The information compares the 1992 ranking with current ranking as well as 1992 sales in terms of dollar value and units sold. Illinois-based McDonald's Corp topped the ranking with a 9.8% increase in dollar sales equivalent to a 5.4% increase in number of units sold.

Not everyone would privatize a successful public company, especially during the late 1990s. But then, not everyone has Charles Sarkis' vision. 'We were a strong company and could finance the [...]

Staff Foodservice companies can add one more option to their green repertoires: Alternative energy. Also referred to as renewable energy, this energy source comes from wind, sun, and even commercial [...]

Staff Restaurant industry sales are expected to bring in a record $537 billion in 2007, marking a 5-percent increase in sales from 2006, according to the National Restaurant Association's '2007 [...]

The urge to splurge and venture out on a flavor foray is most evident among fine-dining restaurants. Smoked salmon ranks near the top of foods increasing in sales and foie [...]

Top 400 chains find ways to broaden their consumer appeal. Numbers never tell the whole story, and Restaurants and Institutions' 37th annual ranking of the Top 400 restaurant concepts is [...]

AS TEA BECOMES MORE POPULAR, OPERATORS FIND GOLD IN LEAVES. At Bambu in Miami Beach, Fla., litchi nut tea is served in a wineglass. At Chez Henri in Cambridge, Mass., [...]

Contrary to F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous words, America does have its share of second acts, and Los Angeles can prove it. According to a survey released by the city's Downtown [...]

Good service? Not often enough. Food quality? Overrated. Prices? Too high. Results of a recent survey of 80,000 restaurant patrons conducted by Tom Feltenstein's Neighborhood Marketing Institute of Palm Beach, [...]

Mall lines for pizza and burgers may not be winding their way down past The Gap and The Sharper Image anymore. Following record gains in 1997, food-court sales slowed last [...]

Mergers and acquisitions put Top 400 in fewer hands. For the Top 400 restaurant concepts, 1998 was a strong, but not record-setting, year. Behind the numbers, however, was a period [...]

AMONG foodservice parent companies, Prandium Inc. could be considered the new kid on the block. Created when Koo Koo Roo merged with Family Restaurants, the Irvine, Calif.-based company has officially [...]

Newcomers to the Top 400 use fresh menus and attitudes to stand out from the crowd. Gone are the days when a chicken sandwich was a chicken sandwich and an [...]

At Dunkin' Donuts, the best-selling item is neither its traditional glazed doughnuts nor Long Johns, chocolate cake doughnuts or apple fritters. Coffee is the bread and butter for the Randolph, [...]

RESTAURANT PATRONS WANT IT ALL, and they're doling out dollars to prove it. Wide-ranging appetites are reflected in the diversity of this year's Top 400 sales growth leaders, as buffets [...]

50% of featured individual-unit operators had increases in after-tax profits. The institutional food service operators increased productivity over last year. Overall cost increases in the industry caused greater stress on increasing productivity.

For 30 years, R&I has produced the definitive ranking of the biggest brand names in the business. With this 1994 edition, R&I's 400 marks its 30th anniversary, traditionally symbolized by [...]

Seasonal sales bounce back; new restaurateurs see promising future. The morning after March's 'storm of the century,' restaurateurs on Florida's damp Gulf Coast were still boasting about increased sales and [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Waitresses who wear skimpy uniforms have earned their employers the moniker 'breast-aurants,' a term that saddens Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery CEO Ron Lynch. 'That's really kind of [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Adding richness, crunch and a significant boost to Mimis Cafe's seafood sales, macadamia-nut crusts are a big hit with seafood lovers at the Tustin, Calif.-based chain. So big [...]

GREAT EXPECTATIONS Too new to be in the 1990 Top 100; good bets for 1991. What's the theme among the emerging throng of major-league restaurants? Keep menu prices down, but [...]

The Cheesecake Factory opened a restaurant in Southlake, Texas, bringing the total number of company locations to 105 nationwide. In addition, the chain plans to open a location at the [...]

This just in: McDonald's once again stands as the largest chain in Restaurants and Institutions ranking of the Top 400 concepts, comfortably propped up in its dominant position by more [...]

Under intense pressure from the foodservice industry, members of Congress are seeking to introduce legislation that would restore full tax deductibility for business meals in hopes of revitalizing sluggish restaurant [...]