John Peyton, CEO of Dine Brands, thinks of his company as a brand company. After all, with the exception of a test kitchen in Dallas, all 3,700 of its restaurants are franchised. Its brands include IHOP, Applebee’s, and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop—an...

Jack Gibbons is a restaurant industry lifer. He got his start in the business over 40 years ago as a server at Pappas Restaurants. He worked his way up to Chief Operations Officer, before eventually launching FB Society (then Front Burner...

“While everyone else was working on the restaurant of the future, we already had it.” Checkers & Rally’s VP of Development, Kris McDonald, might have said this somewhat tongue-in-cheek at RestaurantSpaces, but she was also being serious.  

When Vince Kadlubek—Founder & Director of Meow Wolf—launched “The House of Eternal Return” in Santa Fe in 2016, he did not expect it to become a viral success. The 20,000-square-foot experiential art exhibition consists of a two-story Victorian...

According to Jennifer Pecoraro-Striepling, “There’s no magic bullet to remodels.” 

In a relatively short amount of time, the restaurant space has become flooded with virtual brands. What started out as a handful of mysterious restaurants with catchy names and no established physical presence popping up on third-party delivery...