When Neel Patel came on board as Quiznos CEO, he saw a brand with a problem: 140 US locations, the second-highest name recognition in the sandwich category, and a growth model from 1985. His solution? Burn it down and build 650-square-foot cubes...

You've stripped out seating to make room for mobile pickup. You've removed menu boards because everyone orders on their phone anyway. You've optimized every square foot for throughput. Your stores are humming with efficiency.

And then you look...

When Mike Burns, CEO of &pizza, took over two years ago, he inherited a brand with 47 units, a loud identity, and a problem: they'd been growing in all the wrong places. His solution? Strip out the in-house tech, turn away deep-pocketed franchisees,...

Burger King spent a year building something that will never serve a single customer: a full-scale prototype restaurant inside a 40,000-square-foot warehouse in Miami.

The Royal Innovation Center—the RIC—isn't next to corporate headquarters. That's...

“We broke a lot of rules because we didn’t know what the rules were.”

In 2010, Shake Shack was not a brand. It was barely a company. Three locations. No playbook. No one in the room who had ever scaled a quick service restaurant before.

Food for the...

At our recent RestaurantSpaces gathering, three seasoned execs took the stage for a panel discussion, Melissa Ng (SVP of Design & Construction, CAVA), Rob Gerstenfeld (VP of Real Estate, Construction & Design, QDOBA) and Suk Singh (Chief Development...