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Jonathan Maze

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Financing

Lessons in investing from David Rubenstein

The Bottom Line: The cofounder of The Carlyle Group, an active investor in the restaurant space, revealed the private-equity firm’s return on its McDonald’s China investment and dished out wisdom.

Financing

Fat Brands' debt negotiations could take a while

The CEO of the owner of Round Table Pizza and Fazoli’s called the process for renegotiating its debt “painful and slow” and that he is trying to resolve it “out of court.”

Marketing

Taco Bell is doubling down on value

The Mexican fast-food chain is introducing a Luxe Value Menu featuring 10 items priced at $3 or less following a successful test last year.

Financing

Why Peter Cancro is the best person to take Jersey Mike's to Europe

The sandwich chain’s founder and current chairman, who sold the company last year, will develop 400 locations in the U.K. and Ireland in its first major international development agreement outside North America.

Financing

Rob Lynch has big plans for Shake Shack

The fast-casual burger chain has changed its strategy under Lynch to be a more everyday occasion. Here’s how, and why, the company’s CEO believes that is the right strategy.

Financing

Restaurant chains start 2026 on offense

The Bottom Line: The restaurant industry kicked off January with new value offers, limited-time offers and an awful lot of new protein products.

Financing

Struggling Fat Brands gets 3 delisting notices

The restaurant franchise operator, which is in danger of bankruptcy, faces a delisting of its stock over its low price and market valuation.

Financing

The problem with salads

The Bottom Line: Salad and Go and Sweetgreen are two different restaurant chains. But their respective challenges speak to the same problem: There is only so much demand for salad.

Financing

Why Salad and Go is closing restaurants

The Week in Restaurants: This week’s episode of the weekly restaurant news discussion podcast looks at Salad and Go, Fat Brands and protein.

Financing

Restaurants keep hiring despite a tough market

Restaurants and bars added 27,200 jobs in December, more than half of the jobs created by the economy as a whole.

Leadership

Dutch Bros CEO Christine Barone is the 2026 Restaurant Leader of the Year

The chief executive of the drive-thru coffee chain has helped kickstart the company’s growth while establishing beverages as one of the industry’s hottest sectors.

Marketing

For consumers, taste trumps price when it comes to value

Restaurant customers refuse to skimp on flavor at a lower price and will go somewhere else if they feel quality is declining, according to a new consumer survey from Alvarez & Marsal.

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