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Cracker Barrel plans to invest $700M in a massive 'transformation'

 By Peter Romeo on May 17, 2024

With traffic down 16% year-to-date, the family dining chain is embarking on a rejuvenation effort to enhance its relevance to new and lapsed customers.

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Burger King is now its own biggest operator, for now

 By Jonathan Maze on May 17, 2024

The fast-food chain has completed its acquisition of Carrols Restaurant Group, its largest franchisee. The deal will help the brand speed remodels and change its model of franchisee ownership.

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Frustrated fast-food customers are apparently heading to Walmart

By Jonathan Maze on May 17, 2024

The retail giant suggested its value is pulling customers away from restaurants, where menu prices continue to increase.

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How Popeyes changed the chicken business

By Jonathan Maze on May 17, 2024

How did a once-struggling, regional bone-in chicken chain overtake KFC, the formerly dominant player in the U.S. market? With a fixation on sandwiches and many more new restaurants.

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Get ready for a summertime value war

By Jonathan Maze on May 17, 2024

The Bottom Line: With more customers opting to eat at home, rather than at restaurants, more fast-food chains will start pushing value this summer.

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Fast-food menu price inflation is accelerating as deflation hits grocers

By Jonathan Maze on May 15, 2024

Prices at limited-service restaurants accelerated last month while grocery store prices declined, according to new federal data.

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Here's the big problem with all these $5 meal deals

By Jonathan Maze on May 15, 2024

The Bottom Line: With McDonald’s planning a $5 value meal of its own, more brands are already jumping onto the bandwagon. But not everybody will pay $5.

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Foxtrot, Dom's file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy

By Greg Lindenberg and Hannah Hammond on May 15, 2024

But is a revival of the retail-restaurant hybrids, which shuttered all locations last month, in the works?

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How Pinstripes plans to upgrade the bowling experience

By Jonathan Maze on May 15, 2024

A Deeper Dive: Dale Schwartz, the eatertainment chain’s CEO, joins the podcast to talk about the growth of his bowling and bocce concept and its decision to go public via SPAC.

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McDonald's will start selling a $5 value meal next month

By Jonathan Maze on May 15, 2024

Franchisees gave their OK to the national value promotion, potentially setting the stage for a summertime price war as inflation-weary customers turn away from restaurants.

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