Maggiano's Little Italy is America's top chain restaurant for this year. (Photo)

America’s Favorite Chain Restaurants, Revealed

Around these parts, we're not really chain-restaurant boosters or bashers. Yes, a landscape dominated by big-box feeding stations is a sad future (or present, in some parts of the country) to …

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Calling Out Chain Restaurant Management Everywhere

The Awl's contributor Mobutu Sese Seko has a problem with chain restaurant managers. Among other pet peeves, he disapproves of the ones who solicit customer feedback on employees while said…

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Top 5 Vanishing Restaurant Chains in the U.S.

New trends often prefigure a death knell for old favorites. This is particularly true in the food industry as chains like Tony Roma's and TCBY have been on the wane, while more recent arrivals…

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Promos You Can Use: Restaurant Gift Cards

This week we celebrated middle-brow chain restaurants everywhere, and it's in the spirit of such unabashed appreciation that we bring you gift card promotions from chains—'tis, after all, the…