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Black Box: Restaurants post sales growth in January 2025

Black Box Intelligence released its Restaurant Industry in Review: Trends from January 2025: January 2025 Posts Biggest Restaurant Sales Growth...

1 month ago 2 minute read

Black Box Intelligence evaluates early impact of California’s fast food wage hike

Black Box Intelligence released this August 28, 2024: California’s recent minimum wage hike, from $16 to $20 per hour, has...

7 months ago 5 minute read

Restaurant industry projected to add 525,000 summer jobs

WASHINGTON, May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A summer job in the restaurant industry is like training for the Olympics. The great athletes...

10 months ago 4 minute read

Bad weather hurts January restaurant performance

This is the monthly GuestXM restaurant report from Black Box Intelligence: January offered little clarity in terms of the current...

1 year ago 4 minute read

Mush Foods releases restaurant-ready mushroom blends

HUDSON VALLEY, N.Y., Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Mush Foods, the food-tech innovator behind a groundbreaking mushroom mycelium blend, today announced the launch...

1 year ago 5 minute read

Clean Eatz puts up $25,000 for fitness challenge

Clean Eatz, America’s leading health food restaurant and online meal plan franchise, is getting ready to kick off its annual...

1 year ago 2 minute read

Restaurants post sales and traffic growth in November

This is the monthly GuestXM restaurant report from Black Box Intelligence: By several accounts, November was a pretty encouraging month...

1 year ago 5 minute read

Consumers choose restaurants for the holidays

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Consumers are choosing restaurants this holiday season, according to a new National Restaurant Association survey showing...

1 year ago 3 minute read

Restaurant report shows strong summer, concern for traffic erosion amid challenges

GuestXM released this Out of the Box Insights report September 1, 2023: Restaurant sales and traffic growth slowed down during...

2 years ago 6 minute read

How foodservice will look different in 2030 

MONTEREY, CA — The foodservice landscape will look different in 2030 as Generation Z commands more influence and market share. ...

2 years ago 3 minute read

IFPA Foodservice Conference 2023 sets new records

Monterey Ca. – International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) BB #:378962 welcomed produce suppliers, foodservice innovators, award winning chefs, K-12 professionals,...

2 years ago 5 minute read

U.S. restaurant industry holds steady with May traffic

Chicago, June 21, 2023 – Quick service restaurants (QSRs) have historically represented the majority share of U.S. restaurant industry traffic,...

2 years ago 3 minute read

Consumer demand drives restaurant evolution, reports Deloitte

New York, June 21, 2023 Key takeaways from Deloitte’s Future of Restaurants Survey Why this matters More than three years after...

2 years ago 8 minute read

Restaurants face harsh reality as April saw weakest sales growth since July

Out of the Box Insights by Black Box Intelligence All growth numbers are year over year unless specified. Best and...

2 years ago 6 minute read

Crisp & Green to expand after signing multi-unit deal

The record-setting development deal has now increased the number of locations in development to over 250 units across a total...

2 years ago 5 minute read

U.S. restaurants per capita still well below pre-pandemic

MUFG’s Head of Restaurant and Hospitality Finance Nick Cole shares end-of-year outlook for restaurant industry New York – The number of U.S....

2 years ago 4 minute read

Restaurant survey shows sales increase in 2022 but labor, inflation challenges

IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Restaurant365, the leading all-in-one restaurant enterprise management software today released key findings from...

2 years ago 4 minute read

TouchBistro ‘State of Restaurants’ report shows sales volumes up, rising costs cutting into profits

December 13, 2022 NEW YORK & TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The 2023 “State of Restaurants” Report released today by TouchBistro reveals that restaurant...

2 years ago 8 minute read
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