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The Technomic Top 500: Another tough year for chain restaurants
Top 500 chain restaurant sales slowed again in 2025 as consumers cut back on dining, but sectors like coffee, beverages and snacks and chicken thrived

Michael Oshman is the founder and CEO of the Green Restaurant Association (GRA), an international nonprofit organization formed in 1990 to create environmental sustainability in the restaurant industry. For 35 years, Mr. Oshman has been the most vocal person on the planet to shift the restaurant industry towards environmental sustainability.
Mr. Oshman has been featured in hundreds of media stories, including Time Magazine, NBC Nightly News, NPR, CNN, Fox News, ABC, New York Times, and much more. Mr. Oshman has met with the President’s Council on Environmental Quality under President Clinton and with the Director of the EPA under President Obama.
As the pioneer of the green restaurant movement, Michael Oshman continues his mission to educate restaurateurs and consumers, affecting change one bite at a time.