To our valued Restaurant Hospitality readers,
As restaurant leaders, you know as well as anybody that brands carry a lot of weight with people. They are cornerstones in our lives that we rally around, build identity alongside. They’re consistent, trustworthy, infallible when so much else around us threatens to let us down.
Restaurant Hospitality has been this kind of valued brand for more than a century, guiding restaurateurs through boom times and bust, revolutions and recessions. It got its start in the thick of Prohibition, when dining establishments had to turn their focus to food rather than booze to stay afloat. It launched the same year as the National Restaurant Association and bore witness to massive industry growth, from 40,000 establishments in 1919 to more than 1 million today.
Now we’re excited to move the Restaurant Hospitality brand into the future as we integrate it with sister publication Nation’s Restaurant News. This evolution combines the award-winning, independent-forward content of Restaurant Hospitality with the robust foundation of the country’s largest foodservice publication to create a stronger, more comprehensive resource that can serve the entire restaurant industry in new, innovative ways.
While the past five years have seen unprecedented challenges for independent restaurants, the category still makes up the vast majority of all U.S. restaurants and continues to drive inspiration across the entire foodservice world. The NRN Indies vertical will offer unparalleled insights into the strategies and innovations that influence independent restaurant operators — just as RH has done since 1919 — but now with the strength of the NRN platform to support it.
I’d love for you to join us on this exciting journey. Head to NRN.com/restaurant-segments/independent-restaurants to gain continued access to all of the valued restaurant content you’ve come to expect from Restaurant Hospitality and Nation’s Restaurant News, now in one better-than-ever home.
Sam Oches
Editorial Director
Restaurant Hospitality & Nation’s Restaurant News
