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The Top 500, Rubio’s bankruptcy, and Cracker Barrel’s rebrand

This week on the Extra Serving podcast, a product of Nation’s Restaurant News, NRN editors Holly Petre, Leigh Anne Zinsmeister, and Alicia Kelso discussed the Top 500 chains in the country.

This week, NRN released its Top 500 report and the editors got into some of the nitty gritty from the past year’s financials and some trends they have noticed.

The editors also talked about Rubio’s, which declared bankruptcy for the second time in four years this week. The fast-casual Mexican chain has been struggling for years but closed almost 50 stores late last week in California, blaming the new…

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