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Sep 14, 2026
Adam ReinerGUEST
The pandemic, I think, was a moment where it really came to light how weak the representation is in Washington.
Adam ReinerGUEST
The National Restaurant Association, the other NRA, it's like a lobbying organization that is basically doing McDonald's' dirty work They really just care about the chain restaurants.
Adam ReinerGUEST
Sometimes what the chain restaurants want is not what the independent restaurant owners want.
Adam ReinerGUEST
And so there was an organization, a nonprofit called the Independent Restaurant Coalition, which was formed after the pandemic.
Shawn WalchefHOST
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Matt HallerGUEST
Uh, and the reason IFA was started, the easiest way to explain it for a group of restaurant people is y- everybody knows the National Restaurant Association.
Shawn WalchefHOST
Yep.
Matt HallerGUEST
We're like the National Restaurant Association for all of franchising.
Shawn WalchefHOST
Interesting.
Matt HallerGUEST
And restaurants are the highest percentage of companies that use the franchising model as a growth strategy.
DonHOST
So much reading.
DonHOST
We are talking about deep structural data from the National Restaurant Association, Mintel, Hotel Dive, Food Dive, and, uh, a few very specialized compliance white papers.
speaker_0HOST
Right, which are always a joy to get through.
DonHOST
Ugh, thrilling.
14 MINS LATER
DonHOST
The data across the board shows that consumers are dining out less frequently.
DonHOST
They're guarding their discretionary income fiercely, and when they do spend money, they expect an exceptional multi-sensory return on that investment.
speaker_2HOST
I really want to look at the tension in the data here, specifically from the twenty twenty-six National Restaurant Association F&B Trends Report and Technomic's Global Foodservice Navigator.
DonHOST
What are they saying?
Bo BryantGUEST
There is, you can go to, there's a lot of great resources.
Bo BryantGUEST
Restaurantowner.com is a good resource, but you could go to the National Restaurant Association webpage and you could pull up what's called the standard chart of accounts.
Bo BryantGUEST
And this is an agreed upon restaurant standard chart of accounts for sequencing.
Bo BryantGUEST
all the products that you purchase.
DonHOST
We are pulling from a ton of industry intelligence.
DonHOST
We are talking about the National Restaurant Association's 2026 State of the Industry Projections, DoorDash's Q4 shareholder letter, these crazy new FDA compliance mandates that are like legitimately keeping supply chain managers up at night.
DonHOST
You have to,
speaker_1HOST
because what we are seeing across all of these disparate reports from the tech side, the food safety side, the labor side is is this fundamental permanent shift.
speaker_1HOST
I mean, that is incredibly accurate.
DonHOST
Yeah.
speaker_1HOST
Yeah, because if you dive into the 2026 State of the Restaurant Industry Report from the National Restaurant Association, they paint a picture that is, frankly, it's pretty stark.
speaker_1HOST
They are warning operators about a highly challenging business environment that is being driven by these relentless, persistent cost pressures.
Sean WalchefHOST
I'm your host, Sean Walchef.
Sean WalchefHOST
This is a Cali BBQ Media production from the National Restaurant Association show in Chicago.
Sean WalchefHOST
We've been coming to this show for five years.
Sean WalchefHOST
I have Kelly Esten, the chief marketing officer at Toast.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
It's a nightmare.
DonHOST
Which perfectly contextualizes the National Restaurant Association as 2026 legislative priorities.
DonHOST
They are clearly looking at this labor vice grip and realizing that if they can't fight the wage mandates at the state level, they have to find relief elsewhere on the P&L.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
You have to find the release valve somewhere.
21 MINS LATER
DonHOST
What is left?
speaker_0UNKNOWN
You have to execute brilliant surgical menu engineering.
DonHOST
And the National Restaurant Association's 2026 What's Hot Culinary Forecast gives us the exact roadmap of what these exhausted consumers are actually willing to open their wallets for right now.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
Right.
Katherine JanousekGUEST
I am ready to, to do this speech at Cannes Lion Film Festival in Europe," right? I am g- I am big enough.
Katherine JanousekGUEST
I can say yes to the, you know, National Restaurant Association wants me to keynote, whatever.
Katherine JanousekGUEST
Whatever it is, you need to learn how to quiet that inner critic, and also be observant and go, "You know what? That's interesting," and, and know that everybody has it.
Katherine JanousekGUEST
Because we, we tend to sometimes, men and women go, "Nobody has it." We think, like, the CEO is just walking around thinking that he or she is great and knows exactly what they're doing.
DonHOST
Let's get into it.
speaker_2HOST
We are analyzing the National Restaurant Association's 2026 What's Hot F&B report, and the data clearly establishes a holy trinity for menu engineering this year.
DonHOST
What's the trinity?
speaker_2HOST
The three pillars are nostalgia, comfort, and value.
DonHOST
So today we're looking at M&A data from S&P Capital IQ and Level CFO.
DonHOST
We've got critical twenty twenty-six KPI benchmarks from Slang.ai, market forecasts from the National Restaurant Association and McKinsey.
speaker_0HOST
The McKinsey data is wild, by the way.
DonHOST
Oh, absolutely wild.
12 MINS LATER
speaker_0HOST
Oh, the KPI playbook is everything right now.
DonHOST
Because the macro numbers being thrown around paint a very confusing picture.
DonHOST
The National Restaurant Association released their twent- twenty-six State of the Industry report, and they project a staggering one point five five trillion dollars in sales for the year.
speaker_0HOST
It sounds incredible on paper.
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