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Big Macs aren't McDonald's real inflation story. Instead, look to the Cheeseburger

 By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 29, 2024

While the focus on restaurant menu price inflation has centered on premium items like the Big Mac, it’s in the smaller items, with fewer deals available, where prices have increased most.

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Bob Evans puts itself on the market

 By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 28, 2024

The family dining restaurant chain has hired an investment bank to look for a buyer, after having considered a sale in 2022.

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Minor league baseball players indicted for insider trading on the 2022 Del Taco sale

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 27, 2024

Jordan Qsar, Grant Witherspoon, Chase Lambert and Austin Bernard were accused of trading stocks after learning that the Mexican restaurant chain would be sold to Jack in the Box.

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In the Benihana deal, a sign of the restaurant M&A times

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 27, 2024

The Bottom Line: The venerable Japanese steakhouse chain fetched a modest multiple in its sale to The One Group. But that’s where values have fallen these days.

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How to modernize a 50-year-old pizza chain

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 27, 2024

A Deeper Dive: This week’s episode of the RB podcast features Tom Sacco, CEO of the Iowa-based pizza chain Happy Joe’s, on adapting the brand for today’s restaurant diners.

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Benihana deal makes The One Group one to watch in full-service dining

By Joe Guszkowski on Mar. 27, 2024

Acquiring the 86-unit teppanyaki chain will make the owner of STK and Kona Grill a $1 billion company. And it's just the beginning of an ambitious long-term growth plan.

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McDonald's adds doughnuts, and some uncertainty, to the menu

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 26, 2024

The Bottom Line: Krispy Kreme gets a massive win with its McDonald's doughnut deal. But the payoff is less certain, and a long way off, for the fast-food restaurant chain.

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STK parent One Group to acquire Benihana owner for $365M

By Joe Guszkowski on Mar. 26, 2024

The deal for Safflower Holdings, which also includes the RA Sushi brand, will nearly triple One’s footprint to 168 locations worldwide.

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U.S. pizza chains hit a post-pandemic wall

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 25, 2024

The Bottom Line: Growth that came so easy to pizza delivery chains like Domino’s, Pizza Hut and Papa Johns is now much harder to come by. And now two of them are looking for new leadership.

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In hiring Rob Lynch away from Papa Johns, Shake Shack enters a new era

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 22, 2024

The Bottom Line: The fast-casual burger chain chain lured one of the restaurant industry’s up-and-coming chief executives with $7.3 million in signing bonuses and stock awards.

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