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Sales and traffic for Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse outperformed category benchmarks, while Darden eliminated third-party delivery from Ruth’s Chris.
We’ve arrived at our final Top 500 analysis of 2023, a look at the limited-service restaurant chains that don’t fit neatly into established segments (salad/healthful, pizza, Mexican, dessert/snack, chicken, burger, bakery/café, coffee, or sandwich...
It was a good year for limited-service sandwich restaurants, with all 10 of the largest growing systemwide sales and estimated sales per unit in 2022...
With the acquisition of Carlyle’s minority stake, McDonald’s increases its ownership stake in China from 20% to 48% as it aims to get to 10,000 units in the market by 2028.