About Restaurant Grapevine

The Grapevine is where restaurant suppliers discover what's next!

Restaurant Grapevine is a weekly newsletter for restaurant industry suppliers, vendors, and service providers, published by RAR (Restaurant Activity Report). Each issue covers restaurant openings, closings, M&A activity, and pipeline leads from all across the U.S. and Canada, drawing on RAR's coverage of roughly 87 trade areas nationwide. Restaurant Grapevine was launched in September 2026 by Patrick Moore.

What's in every issue

Every weekly issue brings you restaurant openings and closings, mergers and acquisitions, and a preview of upcoming leads in RAR's Pipeline, with picks pulled from markets across the country rather than just a handful of big cities.

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Contact us

Have a tip, a question, or a correction? Reach out anytime at news@restaurantgrapevine.com. You can also reach us by mail at Restaurant Grapevine, PO Box 9024, Spokane, WA 99209.