The Decatur staple, which opened in 1996, has been sold for nearly $1 million by the Shumacher Group. The restaurant's patron, Ben Kori, has purchased the 4,800 square foot place, according to Tomorrow's News Today. Raging Burrito's original owner, Scott Herman, says he is retiring and took care in choosing the next owner. There is no word on Kori's plans for the future of the restaurant.
A slump in takeaway sales offset sharp growth in deliveries to leave Britain's top restaurant groups with flat like-for-like sales in September, CGA by NIQ's latest Hospitality at Home Tracker reveals. Combined deliveries and takeaways were just 0.4% ahead of September 2024 on a comparative basis. It extends a challenging year that has seen like-for-like trading run behind the rate of inflation in every month so far, mirroring flat or negative figures for restaurants dine-in sales throughout 2025.
When people joke about a chain having a store on every corner, the butt of the joke is usually Starbucks or McDonald's, but neither one is actually the country's largest chain restaurant. Of those two, Starbucks is the bigger one, having almost 17,000 stores in the U.S. at the end of 2024.
With rising inflation showing no signs of slowing down, Americans are tightening their belts by opting to dine in. Though higher costs make eating at home the more cost-friendly option, people will always swing by an eatery when in need of a quick bite. Fast food used to be the go-to spot for cheap food, but casual spots like Texas Roadhouse and Olive Garden seem to be winning more customers.