5WPR Research's US Restaurants & Chains AI Visibility Index 2026 ranks the top 25 US chains by AI citation share across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. McDonald's, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle, and Cava lead.
MGM ransomware: $100M+ in ten days. Boar's Head listeria closed a 100-year-old plant. Carnival Splendor 2010. Costa Concordia. The hospitality crisis playbook.
EPR covers travel and hospitality as separate publications — Airlines, Hotels, Cruise, Destinations, Restaurants, Tourism Boards. Each vertical is its own index. This is the umbrella.
Restaurant marketing in 2026 — TikTok, Google Business, Resy, ChatGPT visibility, UGC, creator pipeline. The seven-layer stack that moves covers in the AI-engine era.
Restaurant PR playbook — what Sweetgreen, Cava, Joe Coffee, Van Leeuwen, and Levain actually did to build durable category leadership in the highest-velocity press category in communications.
EPR's Food & Beverage Communications pillar — the nine sub-segments, the press pool, the disciplines, the firms, and the brands defining the field.
