Jonathan Maze

It’s been a tough period for fans of salad. Sweetgreen, the fast-casual salad chain, has struggled and its share price had 2025’s worst performance outside of Fat Brands. Salad & Go, which had plans to revolutionize the fast-food industry with its dri... See more

More Salad and Go locations are Salad and Gone. This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast The Week in Restaurants examines the drive-thru salad chain, which closed its remaining locations in Texas and Oklahoma. We discuss why that concept has... See more

You can’t tell the industry is challenged by looking at employment numbers. The restaurant industry continued its generally healthy pace of hiring in December, according to new federal data released on Friday. Restaurants and bars added 27,200 jobs in the... See more

Christine Barone, who has helped Dutch Bros reclaim its status as one of the country’s premier growth chains while navigating a difficult market, is the 2026 Restaurant Business Restaurant Leader of the Year. Along the way, Dutch Bros under Barone has hel... See more

Customers may want lower restaurant prices these days, but they don’t want to feel cheated by the menu items operators are giving them for those lower prices. That’s one of the conclusions of a survey of 1,000 consumers from the Consumer and Retail Group ... See more