The news outlet for America’s restaurant business and the people who serve it: lenders, suppliers, business brokers.
News, rankings and market reports for restaurant owners, managers and everyone who serves them: lenders, banks, suppliers, business brokers. Run by professional journalists, editors and researchers. Our goal is to become the #1 source for the restaurant business.
Actors have the Oscars. Musicians have the Grammys. Restaurant owners have never had their own. We are building it.
Our journalists and researchers are collecting the data now, from public records and from the people inside the industry.
America’s largest restaurant groups by number of locations.
National list + every stateComing early 2027The groups that opened the most new locations in 2026.
National list + every stateComing early 2027The restaurants that opened their doors this year.
Every stateComing early 2027Sales, guests, costs and the biggest problems, in owners’ own words.
A report for every stateThe alternative lenders that work best with restaurants.
National listComing early 2027The banks that lend to restaurants, with a word from each.
National listComing early 2027How much money went to America’s restaurants, on what terms, and where.
National reportEvery ranking and report is researched, written and edited by our newsroom: professional journalists, editors and researchers who cover the restaurant business full time.
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Most businesses are only about money. A restaurant is both: a business and a work of art.
Founded by Cyrus Tkachuk, who grew up inside his family’s restaurant. Read the story →