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NRN Top 500: What’s up with pizza and dessert restaurants?
This week on the Extra Serving podcast, a product of Nation’s Restaurant News, editors Leigh Anne Zinsmeister and Sam Oches do a deep dive into the 2024 Technomic Top 500 data.
Last week, we had a downer of a conversation about casual-dining unit retrenchment, so today we mixed it up by highlight some positive unit growth data. You might expect the largest chains to have an advantage when it comes to opening new locations, but unit growth was robust at the opposite end of the Top 500. Small chains saw truly massive expansion, so we talk about why that is and how you can harness it for…
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