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National Restaurant Association Show

Saturday, May 18, 2024

The National Restaurant Association Show offers attendees ideas and inspiration year-round. From menus to workforce to technology to operations. Restaurant Business will be covering the Show’s resources to bring you the latest updates, trends and insights. Stay connected here.

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Food

7 menu trends spotted at the NRA Show

By Patricia Cobe on May 24, 2017

Here’s what’s happening in food and drink that can power your menu in the year ahead, as seen and heard at the sessions and in the aisles of this year's convention.

5 questions not to ask at the NRA Show

 By Peter Romeo on May 01, 2014

The National Restaurant Association’s May convention is an ideal place to find answers to everyday dilemmas. Here's how to avoid being hissed off the trade-show floor.

Post-NRA Show attitude adjustments

By Peter Romeo on May 20, 2014

If colleagues attended the NRA Show and you didn’t, grant them some deep-thought time. They’re likely grappling with new necessities that mandate changes in their attitudes and ways of doing business. You may want to sit at their feet and get a download, Grasshopper.

Restaurant trends from across the pond

By Patricia Cobe on May 27, 2014

The British restaurant scene is booming, according to Peter Backman, an annual visitor to the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago. Backman sat down with Senior Editor Pat Cobe to share some other insights into what's trending in the U.K. Did someone say "fast casual"?

Financing

5 things to expect after an equity recapitalization

By Peter Romeo on May 19, 2015

If a restaurant company opts to fund its growth by selling a piece of the operation to outside investors, there are some common experiences they should expect, speakers agreed at yesterday’s Restaurant Finance Summit during the NRA Show.

5 reasons why the NRA Show should make you happy

By Peter Romeo on May 19, 2015

Those who sat through certain of the conference’s 100-plus education sessions had reason to exit with smiles and considerable optimism.

9 restaurant trends from this year’s NRA Show

By Peter Romeo on May 21, 2015

The restaurant industry’s annual Woodstock in Chicago once again provided a preview of where the business is changing. Here are some of the directions we spotted.

Menu-labeling rules—are you ready?

By Dana Moran on May 28, 2015

The FDA’s new food-labeling rules go into effect Dec. 1. How prepared are you? Take our multiple-choice quiz to find out—and then study up, based on your results.

6 ways running restaurants has changed in 2016

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 25, 2016

At the NRA Show, executives shared several new realities of the business that are changing the way restaurants are run.

Operations

To franchise, or not to franchise? 6 takeaways from industry vets

By Heather Lalley on May 22, 2017

Why franchising feels like being a mother with 300 children.

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