James Beard’s 2025 report reveals the survival challenges facing independent restaurants. With rising costs and shifting ...

Most of us know that food prices are rising. Many have also noticed that restaurant ... expensive fast-food chain. Chicken, which faced shortages, was hit especially hard by inflation.

It’s a two-track economy, in short. That fits with the fact that, of the five restaurants in the chart above, Taco Bell is performing the best. As I learned as a college student, on a cost-per-calorie ...