Restaurants

• Big Food gets leaner with divestitures and breakups as consumers turn away from packaged snacks - Big Food has been selling off underperforming brands or even splitting up, as the industry faces weaker demand.
• Starbucks to unveil long-term outlook at investor day, as Niccol says turnaround is just beginning - Starbucks is expected to release a long-term forecast and share more details about how it plans to hit those financial targets at an investor presentation.
• Starbucks stock jumps as coffee chain's traffic grows for the first time in two years - Shares of Starbucks have fallen more than 3% over the last year.
• Do You Frequently Order Food Delivery? We Want to Hear From You. - Your responses can help as we report on the immense growth of food delivery and its effects on how we live.
• Shares of KFC and Pizza Hut Indian operator Devyani jump on merger with rival franchisee Sapphire - Two major franchisee operators for Yum!Brands in India will merge to create a single unified franchisee for KFC & Pizza Hut in the country
• Tech startup Hyphen is bringing AI to the lunch line — with help from Cava and Chipotle - Hyphen aims to make service better and more efficient, and it has investors including Cava and Chipotle.
• These restaurant chains closed locations in 2025 - Chains like Starbucks, Wendy's and Denny's announced plans to close underperforming restaurants in 2025.
• Restaurants' hottest menu item in 2025 was 'value.' That won't change next year - Restaurant chains bet on value in 2025, and they're not likely to ditch the strategy next year.
• From farm to table, high beef prices squeeze margins. How our steakhouse stock is balancing costs - Beef costs are still pressuring portfolio name Texas Roadhouse and leading to shakeups at other industry players.
• Steakhouse Woes - We examine how rising beef prices have stressed restaurant owners this holiday season.