Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News provides analysis of Technomic’s annual Top 500 restaurant chains report, which ranks companies by U.S. systemwide sales.

These days, Charleston has been named one of the country's best cities for food lovers. But the city's restaurants missed out on the Yelp fried chicken rankings last year. Instead, Rocky's Hot Chicken ...

Firm ranks top restaurant commercialsCommercials from casual-dining chains represented more than half of the list. By comparison, Ace Metrix's top ads for 2009 were dominated by quick-service ...