#drive-thru-expansion

#drive-thru-expansion

Burger King UK has secured a £60 million financing package from lenders to support its expansion plans, which include opening over 30 new restaurants in 2026. The majority of these will be company-owned, while some will operate under franchise agreements.

"Vending is NOT fully passive income. I'd call it semi-passive, like 70% passive. Social media makes it look like you fill machines once a month and money rains in."

I know that that's just not an option for me. There's nothing I would gain that would be tied to anything that I'm doing.

To be part of our Hall of Fame, a company must rank for at least 25 years consecutively. In the Hall of Fame, brands are listed in descending order based on the number of years they have been ranked - starting at the top, with the three companies that have ranked every year that the Franchise 500 has existed.

Burger Chef was a long lost competitor in the fast food industry, founded in the 1950s and known for its Big Shef burger and fixings bar.

He just does it twice as fast, and he does it perfect every time. And he never comes in sick and doesn't take a smoke break. According to company filings, Miso sees a potential $4 billion revenue opportunity with Flippy's automation tools. The emergence of Miso Robotics comes as the global restaurant automation market is expected to grow to $28 billion this year.

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be constantly marching forward across nearly every industry. While food service is an area that has long relied on human touch (be it via skilled cooks or friendly faces interacting with customers), it too is facing a new wave of AI-powered technologies. These innovations are often sold as being a means to improve working conditions by increasing efficiency and reducing stress - particularly in hectic fast food kitchens -

Coffee has been a morning ritual for Chandra Donelson since she was old enough to drink it. But, dismayed by rising prices, the 35-year-old from Washington, D.C., did the unthinkable: She gave it up. "I did that daily for years. I loved it. That was just my routine," she says. "And now it's not." Years of steadily climbing coffee prices have some in this country of coffee lovers upending their habits by nixing café visits, switching to cheaper brews or foregoing it altogether.

The rising cost of food has been tough to deal with everywhere, and it's particularly hard to accept how much Dunkin's prices have increased. It's not that the coffee chain should be exempt from the forces that have driven up fast food prices over the last five years, but Dunkin' has always been a value refuge from Starbucks and other competitors that like to pass themselves off as a little bit fancier.

Kempczinski's video has kicked off a humiliation ritual. C-suite types from competing fast food chains showing that their food is not only edible, but enjoyable! It's become such a sideshow for the internet that folks are hunting down more videos of Kempczinski sitting alone and eating sandwiches.

The purveyors of late-night hot dogs, tins of Zyn, and countless varieties of gummy worms generally don't sell a lot of "real food." But in America's food deserts, convenience stores are more than just places to pick up a snack-they're grocery stores. The USDA estimates that tens of millions of Americans live in low-income areas with limited access to grocery stores.

Sweet and spicy together is going to be a big food trend.

McDonald's ( NYSE: MCD) and Yum! Brands ( NYSE: YUM) face a punishing domestic landscape. QSR traffic from lower-income consumers declined by nearly double digits in the third quarter, a trend persisting for nearly two years. Rising labor costs, consumer pushback on pricing, market saturation, and value menu wars are eroding margins. India offers explosive growth: 1.4 billion people, median age of 29, a rapidly expanding middle class expected to reach 600 million by 2030, and massive underpenetration of Western QSR brands.