On paper, putting IHOP and Applebee’s under one roof sounds simple. Breakfast from one brand. Lunch, dinner, and drinks from the other. One building that stays busy all day.

Actually making it work? That took a dedicated Dine Brands team six months...

Ewan Davenport has built restaurant brands across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and beyond, first at SABMiller, then at Yum Brands, now as President International at CKE Restaurants, overseeing Carl's Jr. and Hardee's across 1,250...

KFC operates 34,000 restaurants across 150 countries, the largest geographic footprint of any restaurant chain in the world. Somewhere on the planet, a new KFC opens roughly every three and a half hours. Nearly 10,000 have opened in the last five...

At RestaurantSpaces Spring in Miami, a room full of restaurant construction and development leaders from brands of all sizes sat down for a behind-closed-doors conversation on one of the industry's most persistent headaches: how do you keep...

At RestaurantSpaces Spring in Miami, a group of franchise development and construction leaders gathered for a behind-closed-doors conversation on AI — not the keynote version, but the real one. What tools are people actually using? What's working,...

Two years ago, Jeff Gaul walked into a CAVA and had an uncomfortable thought: close your eyes, open them, and you could be standing in a Chipotle. Plywood, stainless steel, dark colors. Nothing about it said Mediterranean. Nothing said CAVA.

At...