Quick-Service and Fast Casual Restaurant News and Information

Popeyes' Next Act: Become a Global Icon

Will Meal Kits Have Lasting Power in Quick Service?

People sitting around using their phones.

How Tech Can Make Restaurants Pandemic-Proof

Dickey’s CEO: Virtual Training Will Outlast the Pandemic

Noodles & Company Expects to Thrive for Years to Come

Chain News

Top Headlines

FAT Brands to Buy Johnny Rockets for $25 Million

The deal will give the growing company more than 700 locations.

What Will Separate the Fast Casual Winners and Losers Post Pandemic

Where can investors and operators find the best opportunities?

What Inspires Yum!'s Chief People Officer Tracy Skeans

Advice: Work really, really hard and be really good to your people.

The 37 Biggest Fast-Food Chains in America

Slim Chickens chicken fingers and sauce.

11 Restaurants Positioned to Endure the COVID Pandemic

The 10 Most Valuable Fast-Food Brands of 2020

The QSR 50

Inside the biggest quick-service restaurants in America.

Welcome to the Shake Shack of the Future

From drive thrus to pickup windows, the fast casual is shifting fast.

Taco Bell to Trim Menu Nationwide on August 13

The fast-food chain is removing 12 items.

Tom & Chee, and the Comeback of a Shark Tank Legend

Can the once-promising fast casual return to growth?

Fast Casual 2.0

Raising Canes to make managers into millionaire restaurant operators.

Raising Cane’s Donates Over $500K to Local Hospitals

Tropical Smoothie Cafe exterior of restaurant.

Tropical Smoothie Café Posted Record-Setting Sales Results in July

Dickey’s CEO: Virtual Training Will Outlast the Pandemic

Noodles & Company Expects to Thrive for Years to Come

Zaxby's Creates Chicken-Themed 'Relaxation Packs,' Including Scented Candles

Ike’s Love & Sandwiches Introduces 'World’s Greatest Catering Offer'

Special Reports

The QSR 50

A look at how the 50 biggest brands in America stacked up against each other pre-pandemic, and how they’re positioning for the long road ahead.

Young Restaurant Leaders on the Rise

Here are 15 young leaders who are 35 and under and who we believe are worthy of your attention.

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.

Coronavirus Updates: What Restaurants Need to Know

Stay up to date as the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe.

How COVID-19 has Changed the Off-Premises Game Forever

Restaurants are thinking way outside the box with their menus and branding as they learn to game the off-premises system.

The 40/40 List

We can see it clearly: These 40 brands have a great shot at defining the next generation of fast-casual success.

How to Win the Plant-Based Game

As the plant movement progresses from a trend to a lasting change, it’s time for operators to decide what fits their brands best when it comes to plant-forward and plant-based foods

Naan at Curry Up Now fast casual restaurant.

Tips to Grow Your Restaurant Brand in 2020

Growing a brand to encompass multiple units can be difficult, scary, exciting, and rewarding. But it’s also the sum of many parts.

The 2019 QSR Drive-Thru Study

The drive-thru lane has reigned in quick service for 70 years. But with off-premises booming and new technologies thriving, will drive thru ever be the same?

A&W's All-American Experience Endures 100 Years Later

As the legacy brand celebrates a century in business, its new leaders reflect on a history full of ups and downs—but one that never wavered from classic American food.