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Au Contraire, Mon Ami

Posted Wed, 2013-05-15 11:53 by Bob O'Brien

Is there anything the U.S. press likes more than a piece of news that makes the French look less French and more, well, American?

Chicken Sandwich vs Burgers. No Contest.

Posted Tue, 2013-04-09 11:29 by Bob O'Brien

On the menu, in the mouth…chicken sandwiches and hamburgers are two different things.

The New Normal in Foodservice?

Posted Wed, 2013-03-27 01:38 by Bob O'Brien

Remember the recession in the early 1990′s? It was short and deep and was dubbed the “white collar” recession since the job cuts during it and the subsequent “re-engineering” fad resulted in a greater share of white collar job cuts than previous recessions had.

The Perfect Storm

Posted Thu, 2013-02-14 02:40 by Bob O'Brien

Few things get our email wires humming like a broad downdraft in the U.S. restaurant industry. We had just this kind of flurry last week as we published our Week 4, 2013 numbers for SalesTrack® Weekly, NPD’s national, weekly foodservice industry performance tracker. After 87 weeks (aside from calendar anomalies) of same store  sales growth, our 50 chains, in aggregate, posted a -4% decline in same store sales.

Roseanne Roseannadanna Was Right, It’s Always Something

Posted Thu, 2012-09-06 10:40 by Bob O'Brien

Just when we thought that the foodservice industry was on the road to recovery, with consumers harkening in the new year with more restaurant visits, their confidence in the economy began to wane again and they pulled back on their visits.

Millennials Are Eating Out Less

Posted Wed, 2012-08-29 11:30 by Bob O'Brien

We all love Millennials. They're the future main stream restaurant consumers. They do all sorts of cool things like Foursquare, Twitter and Yelp (at least they did last week). They like to try new things. And, they're just inexperienced enough to be optimistic.