#HireKevin seems to have worked -- meaning that Kevin Matuszak, the 25-year-old Philadelphia resident who started the social media campaign may soon b...

HuffPost Food has partnered with YouGov BrandIndex to determine the state of the dining industry in 2012, specifically as it pertains to the value and...

Applebee's has drawn a bit of heat recently for comments made by a franchise owners implying that the Affordable Care Act would force it to cut back o...

Finding out which fast food chain is the cheapest is easy -- you just look at the prices on their menus. And there's no objective way to determine whi...

For the past couple of years Applebee's has been trying to broaden its appeal by experimenting with "Club Applebee's" in a handful of locations. Their...

Chain restaurants are a huge force in America, and they come in every shape and size. Yesterday, Nation's Restaurant News announced their consumer pic...

Food writer Michael Ruhlman has remarked on the Cheesecake Factory, "The fact that any of the 146 [restaurants] around the country can put out this as...

The time has come. HuffPost Food's Chain Food Showdown has reached its end. After sampling common appetizers from Applebee's, The Cheesecake Factory, ...

Everyone is allowed a small mid-life crisis -- even the world's largest casual dining chain. Applebee's President Mike Archer told USA Today that he w...

The ghost pepper falls somewhere between 855,000 and 1,000,000 on the Scoville scale, which means it's about 300 times hotter than a jalapeno. Spicy e...

HuffPost Food recently went on a tour de force of some of America's major casual dining chains. Regardless of your taste in cuisine, chances are you'v...

HuffPost Food recently went on a tour de force of some of America's major casual dining chains. Regardless of your taste in cuisine, chances are you'v...

Market Force just released the results of its 4,500-person survey on casual dining. The results were tabulated by number of votes, and then the numb...