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See the full ranking of the Top 100 concepts, which account for more than $1.8 billion in annual revenue, and learn how they are putting hospitality first.

2020 has been a disruptive year for restaurants, and no part of the industry has been left untouched, including menu development.

Restaurant Business has collected same-store sales data from publicly traded restaurant chains. Look below for a complete list of sales data organized by calendar quarter.

Restaurants are notoriously slow to adopt new technology. But inside the pressure cooker that is the coronavirus pandemic, the industry has undergone years worth of innovation in just a few months.

When the coronavirus took over the U.S. in mid-March, it was like nothing restaurants had experienced before.

This year’s class of America’s up-and-coming chains faces an uncertain future. But as the coronavirus hit, these small and innovative concepts were characteristically quick to adapt, repacking menu items into meal kits, creating pop-up drive-thrus and more. Here’s a look at how they got here, and where they plan to go next.

The Top 500 highest-grossing restaurant chains recorded their best overall performance in five years in 2019. Chicken had a moment, tech made another leap and the biggest chains got bigger.

The 500 largest restaurant chains in the U.S. continued to grow at a healthy pace in 2022.

The restaurant industry remains a hospitality business. And service can make or break an otherwise exceptional dining experience.

Instagram, food festivals and TV chefs are accelerating the speed at which unique flavors and ingredients hit the mainstream. Consumers now expect operators to update menus more frequently with on-trend ideas. To keep ahead of the curve, operators have to stay on top of new flavor trends without abandoning the old.

For this year’s Power 20 list, RB sought to recognize the next wave of great restaurant leaders. We gathered nominations from current executives and did some groundwork of our own to identify these 20 standouts, whose careers are on the rise thanks to their accomplishments across many areas of the business.