Restaurant Industry Insight
Media, Press and Speaker Inquiries
As an authority on the restaurant industry, we’re routinely cited in a wide range of media outlets and publications.
We are always happy for our restaurant trend analysis – either that we publish ourselves or in response to specific reporter questions – to be used by media outlets. We only ask that you cite any information used as being from “Black Box Intelligence”.
Andy Smith, CMO
marketing@blackboxintelligence.com
Source of our research
Our Restaurant Dataset
We provide commentary and trend data on the following restaurant trends:
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Traffic and sales
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Pay and compensation
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Employee turnover
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Employee diversity
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Guest sentiment
We capture data direct from our network of multi-unit restaurants, which encompasses:
120,000
Restaurant Units
$153bn
Annual Sales
2.8m+
Employees’ Data
+50m
Guest Reviews
99%
US DMAs
+250
Metrics
Hire Restaurant Industry Experts
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We regularly get requests for our expert industry analysts to speak at industry and brand events. Reach out to marketing@blackboxintelligence.com to explore hiring us for a speaking engagements.

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