Through menu maneuvering and strong vendor relationships, Golden Chick hopes to get a grip on chicken prices and supply.

Applebee’s brand president John Cywinski was preaching to the full-service restaurant choir on Wednesday. “For the first time in a long time,” he said, “I now believe we control our own destiny.”

Wingstop deploys new technologies using a test-and-learn strategy to ensure that any unforeseen problems surface before new systems have been fully deployed, the company’s chief technology officer said in a presentation Tuesday as part of the Nation’s Restaurant News CREATE series.

Labor pressures in the restaurant industry have also impacted poultry processing, sending bone-in chicken wing prices on the spot market more than 50% higher in the past quarter and increasing food costs, Wingstop Inc. executives said Wednesday.

Shares of Wingstop (NASDAQ: WING) jumped 24.6% in April, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

In the past year, the market has been flooded with virtual concepts, many of them in the wing category. The competition has certainly elevated since Chili’s parent Brinker International launched It’s Just Wings in June 2020.

Hard Rock Cafe, the iconic restaurant and entertainment brand, is headlining the stage this summer with its fan favorite, limited-time festival menu items, providing guests a variety of exclusive food deals and activities available May 10 through June 1 at participating locations.

It's Just Wings, the virtual chicken wing concept launched by Chili's Grill & Bar last summer, is already big enough to be on Technomic's annual list of the Top 500 highest-grossing restaurant chains in the U.S.

Few things are more agreed upon than our collective, unapologetic love of food. Cheesy, juicy, or saucy, so many of our favorite eats are enhanced when paired with an ice-cold Pepsi Cola. To reinforce this, the Pepsi brand is upending what we expect of the food delivery world, with today's launch of Pep's Place, where the cola comes first.

After a year promoting takeout wings and crispy chicken sandwiches, restaurants including KFC, Wingstop Inc. and Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. say they are paying steep prices for scarce poultry. Some are running out of or limiting sales of tenders, filets and wings, cutting into some of their most reliable sales.

The nation's chicken wars and cravings for comfort food during the pandemic have made poultry so scarce and expensive that some restaurants are limiting or running out of chicken sandwiches, wings and tenders. Others are considering changes to menus and promotions.

Restaurants throughout America are dealing with a frustrating shortage of chicken wings that shows no signs of slowing.

If you’ve noticed a steady uptick in the price of buffalo chicken wings from your favorite local bar or restaurant recently, you’re not alone. Thanks to a confluence of events, wing enthusiasts may be heading into some dark times.

America's demand for chicken wings continues to shape the food industry, as some restaurant owners find themselves shelling out more $3 per pound for wings.