restaurants

NOUN

business establishment serving food and drink

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bar cafeteria coffee shop diner dining room inn joint outlet saloon

STRONG

canteen chophouse dive drive-in eatery grill hideaway lunchroom pizzeria

WEAK

café doughtnut shop eating house eating place fast-food place greasy spoon hamburger stand hashery hotdog stand luncheonette night club soda fountain watering hole

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restaurants

The pizza category has particularly struggled to increase business in recent years, with sales growth at pizza restaurants lagging behind the broader fast-food market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

During Cava’s fiscal third quarter, the company added assistant general managers at its restaurants, a mid-level role it created in December and has now filled at 75% of its restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Kempczinski said that the company was remodeling restaurants in part to increase space to offer more drinks.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Cerca Trova also operates Outback Steakhouses in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico but said that California’s minimum wage laws have made labor especially pricey for a majority of its restaurants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Everything fascinated him— street signs, traffic, traffic lights, speed bumps, speed limits, medians, fast-food restaurants, police cars, fire trucks.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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