The Business of Food

LendingTree released the results of a survey about the state of the restaurant industry in the U.S. on Wednesday.

Publix is taking a shot at incentivizing the coronavirus vaccine for employees, offering $125 store gift cards to associates who receive the full inoculation.

McDonald’s is setting new diversity goals to bring more women and minorities into management roles.

On Wednesday, Dine Brands announced it is opening a new virtual restaurant out of Applebee’s kitchens called Cosmic Wings.

Do you know which restaurant cooked the meal you just had delivered? Increasingly, it can be hard to tell.

Entrepreneurs, intellectuals and presidential candidates have in recent years touted “universal basic income,” a cash stipend to everyone with no strings attached, as the answer to poverty, automation and the drudgery of work. It has never gotten off the ground in the U.S.

The model and reality star has launched her own 818 Tequila brand, joining a slew of stars like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Ryan Reynolds in looking to build the next billion-dollar spirits empire after George Clooney’s Casamigos label sold for up to $1 billion in 2017.

News of Tyson’s latest policy comes one month after Tyson announced a partnership with Matrix Medical to deploy mobile health clinics to aid with vaccine administration and COVID-19 education. Tyson, meanwhile, is not currently requiring its employees to get the vaccine, but rather “strongly” encouraging it.

A Black McDonald's franchisee alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that McDonald's discriminated against him by keeping his restaurants out of affluent areas. 

The National Restaurant Association sent a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday urging them against raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, saying that it would force businesses to cut jobs, decrease hours, increase menu prices, and close down altogether in some cases. 

How restaurant owners are showing support for Asian-American communities amid a surge of hate crimes.

Hundreds of meatpacking workers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus but the union that represents many of them says several hundred thousand more have not, despite the risks they continue to face at work.

Together, the roughly 300 civil liberties lawsuits related to Covid-19 represent the most significant test in more than a century of the emergency powers of state governors and the scope of liberty in dire times.

The company ramped up production to “full swing” for 51 of the next 55 days to catch up.

The Shake Shack founder’s Enlightened Hospitality Investment firm is leading headlining a funding round of $100 million for Clear, a platform used in airports and aiming to expand beyond aviation to restaurants and hotels with its new digital health passport.

The listings site announced its fourth-quarter earnings that revenue was stronger than earlier periods in 2020, but still fell year over year.

Luby’s Inc., the Texas-based parent company of Luby’s Cafeteria and Fuddruckers restaurants, is ready to throw in the towel and sell off its assets in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic's decimation of the industry.

Former McDonald's USA President and CEO Ed Rensi argues 35% indoor dining capacity for New Jersey restaurants isn’t enough.

Retailer Kroger announced on Monday that it would permanently close two of its Southern California stores due to what it says is a direct result of a city mandate that requires an extra $4 of "hero pay" for essential workers.

Kraft Heinz Co. KHC -0.27% is nearing a deal to sell its Planters snack business to Skippy peanut butter owner Hormel Foods Corp. HRL 3.90% , according to people familiar with the matter.