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Two weeks ago, we wrote about dealer consolidation and growing internet sales of equipment and supplies, and how they might affect smaller dealers, buying groups,…

On the state level, restaurant unit growth trends were mostly positive in 2015, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As reported by…

The restaurant industry continued to grow net units in 2015, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as reported by NRA Chief Economist…

With the global turmoil of the June 23 referendum in the United Kingdom to pull out of the European Union playing out worldwide, FER Fortnightly…

One month they’re up, the next they’re down. The components that track current same-store sales and customer traffic exhibited wild swings once again in the…

Chicago has joined more than two dozen other U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, in requiring employers to provide paid sick leave. The ordinance, which guarantees…

Comments to the EPA were due by July 5 on the agency’s new guidelines on of its product development page for Energy Star Commercial refrigerators…

Just weeks ahead of next month’s opening of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Wendy’s is making its debut in the Brazilian market. The chain…

Three appointments have been announced in Emerson’s Commercial Solutions Group. Drew Carmichael has been named Director-Product Planning & Innovation; he joins the Racine, Wis., company…

Tomlinson Industries has promoted Michael Ritley to V.P.-Manufacturing. Ritley, who previously served as Tomlinson’s director of materials management, will continue those responsibilities as he takes…