At VantagePoint’s Insight2Impact Foodservice Marketing Summit, renowned menu analyst Nancy Kruse highlighted five major trends she foresees coming to dining in 2017. First up: ingredients and “clean” eating.

As you might have read in Nation’s Restaurant News, Arby’s has a new limited time offer: a venison sandwich. Maybe that makes your mouth start to water or maybe that’s not your cup of tea; either way, there are some best practices that can be gleaned from the launch of this sandwich.

The past few weeks have produced some landmark headlines — some alarming and others promising. While Burger King’s parent company reports a “sharp increase” in first-quarter sales since acquiring Tim Hortons and moving its headquarters to Canada, McDonald’s saw its year-over-year revenue drop by nearly a billion dollars — and the chain plans to close hundreds of stores in the coming months.