Editor's Pick · June Issue
After 1,400 visits to twelve major chains across 38 metropolitan markets, our annual benchmark report is out. Inside: median wait times, order-accuracy scores, the impact of digital ordering, and which regional players are quietly setting new standards for the industry.
Read the full report →Our editorial team logged 1,400 visits to compile this year's comprehensive ranking. Median wait times are down across the sector, but order-accuracy scores tell a more complicated story — particularly at chains rolling out kiosk-and-app hybrid ordering.
Why are seasonal "drops" now arriving every six weeks instead of every quarter? A look at how social-media-driven LTOs have reshaped product-development cycles, kitchen workflows, and the calculus of regional rollouts at America's largest chains.
Inflation cooled at the grocery store but barely budged behind the counter. Our value-meal audit tracks 28 combo platforms across 11 chains, comparing nominal prices against per-calorie and per-gram cost — and finds the bargain-bin game is being reinvented quietly.
Seven visits across four states. Which of the returning limited-time sandwiches — the French Dip, the Wagyu Steakhouse Burger, the Half-Pound Beef 'n Cheddar — actually earn a full-price purchase, and where the real value sits on the current Arby's menu.
Six weeks of daily testing across twenty-two markets. How the rebuilt Chick-fil-A app changes drive-thru wait times, curbside pickup and reward mechanics — and where operators are struggling to catch up.
Five years after the disastrously-timed March 2020 national breakfast launch, where does the program sit? Franchisee margins, market-share gains and where Wendy's fits in the 2026 QSR breakfast war.
Two decades after its 2005 launch, the Crunchwrap remains the platonic ideal of a portable Taco Bell meal — and the single most-imitated menu format in the Tex-Mex quick-service segment. A brief history.
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