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2025 Year in Review

Financing

Restaurant sales and traffic challenges dominated 2025

 By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 05, 2026

A Deeper Dive: This week’s episode of the restaurant finance podcast looks at the top episodes of the year, each of which in one form or another dealt with the challenging operating environment.

Financing

The 10 biggest stories in the restaurant industry in 2025

 By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 19, 2025

Customers bristled at inflation, igniting the most intense value war the industry has ever seen. Also, a beverage boom, immigration, fast-casual challenges, big bankruptcies and acquisitions.

Financing

The year's most notable restaurant bankruptcies

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 19, 2025

During another tough year for the industry, numerous restaurant chains and large franchisees filed for bankruptcy. Here are the filings that mattered the most in 2025.

Operations

The best of Restaurant Business 2025

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 19, 2025

In a complicated year for the restaurant industry, our journalists continued to provide outstanding work. Here’s a look at some of the best stories and podcasts we produced over the course of the year.

Financing

A look at some of the biggest restaurant stories of 2025

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 19, 2025

The Week in Restaurants: In this week’s episode of the restaurant news discussion podcast, we look at some of the most important stories of the year.

Food

What's coming onto menus in 2026

By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 19, 2025

Food trend forecasters were all over the place with their predictions, but there are some areas of agreement. Here are the trends that overlapped the most—along with a few interesting outliers.

Technology

The biggest restaurant tech stories of 2025

By Joe Guszkowski on Dec. 18, 2025

The year was defined by acquisitions, AI and automation, with big players like DoorDash, Olo and Wonder dominating the headlines.

Food

The food and drink trends that defined 2025

By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 18, 2025

Common threads emerged on restaurant menus over the past year. These are the ones that rose to the top—including those we’ve had enough of.

Operations

For many in fast casual, 2025 was painful and a little insulting

By Lisa Jennings on Dec. 18, 2025

This was the year economic woes came for the fast-casual consumer, and use of the term "slop bowl" added insult to injury. But it was a good year to be a chicken brand, or a bakery-cafe concept not named Panera.

Financing

2025 was a year of hope for full-service restaurants

By Joe Guszkowski on Dec. 18, 2025

FSRs had plenty to celebrate as consumers rekindled their love for sit-down dining. But there were challenges too, including a steady stream of bankruptcies.

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