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Texas Restaurant Association retweeted
🚨 When you're out at your favorite restaurant this Holiday Labor Day Weekend know this, 1/2 of Texas Restaurants are NOT making money! Kelsey Erickson Streufert @KelseyJErickson with Texas Restaurants Association @TXRestaurants testified in my Senate Local Government Committee that 50% of their members aren’t making any money in the Restaurant Business in Texas! So support your favorite, but also know they're under tremendously stupid local government regulatory burdens. Them losing money hasn't stopped Cities especially from slapping crazy fees on them like, get this…🕯️"CANDLE fees"🕯️…LITERALLY! 🤯
Texas cities @TML_Texas don't need to be burning up 🔥 restaurant owners & their customer's hard-earned cash 🤑 by doing an open flame count! Really, the restaurant business is tough enough!
What do you think? Like or share if you think we should file legislation in #txlege to address this.
P.S. This slide was presented in committee showing Austin BBQ joints have to charge $19/20 a BBQ Sandwich to just make money! SEE 📸
“[Texas’] restaurant industry is shaped every day by Latin American flavors, culinary traditions and entrepreneurship,” writes TRA chief marketing officer Tony Abruscato for El Restaurante.
Read the full article at: elrestaurante.com/news/latin…
Texas Restaurant Association retweeted
Texas Restaurant Association honors owners Lupita Corbeil and Dawn Lafreeda for their generosity during Hill Country flooding in 2025. sanantonioreport.org/san-ant…
Texas Restaurant Association retweeted
What bar, restaurant owners are learning at Texas Restaurant Show in San Antonio ksat.com/news/local/2026/07/…
Texas Restaurant Association retweeted
I enjoyed speaking in the Advocacy Lounge keynote session at the @TXRestaurants Show today! As a business owner who signs the front of the checks, I understand the economic challenges businesses face every day, especially our restaurants. Texas restaurant owners are the backbone of our communities, creating jobs, serving great food, and providing outstanding hospitality. Thank you for all you do to keep Texas thriving. Eat local. Eat often.
Texas Restaurant Association retweeted
We're here, Texas! Mark and Dakota are at Booth #736 at the Texas Restaurant Show today and tomorrow. đź’Ą
And don't miss Mark's speaking session, "Restaurant Social Media That Actually Works" at 12:30 PM CT at the Profit Lab! đź’Ş
Texas Restaurant Association retweeted
Time to learn something at @TXRestaurants Show! @RandRCrafthouse is a proud member!
Texas Restaurant Association retweeted
Get ready, Texas. The boys are coming to the Texas Restaurant Show! 🙌 Find us at Booth #736 from July 12th - July 13th, 2026.
đź’Ą And don't miss Mark's presentation, "Restaurant Social Media That Actually Works" on 07/12 at 12:30PM CT at the Profit Lab.
Texas Restaurant Association retweeted
@TXRestaurants and the GRA launched the #Texas Certified Green Restaurant® Program to create new resources for local restaurants looking to improve their #sustainability for the world’s largest #soccer event.
Find #greenrestaurants at Dinegreen.com/Texas.
#Dallas #Houston
That's a wrap on our 2026 TRA Texas Tour!
A special thank you to the Lubbock and Panhandle TRA chapters for hosting our final two stops, and for the incredibly gracious welcome we received! And a tremendous thank you to all chapters who hosted us. 🧵
As we begin preparing for next year’s 90th Texas Legislative Session, we want to build on what we heard across the state and ensure operators continue to have a seat at the table. 🧵
Whether we met you on the Tour or not, we want to know what challenges you face today and what changes would make it easier to operate and grow your business in TX.
Please take a few minutes to complete our advocacy survey; your voice matters! surveymonkey.com/r/TRA2026Ad…
Texas Restaurant Association retweeted
The Texas Restaurant Show announced the inaugural Lone Star Tapas Showdown!
Only eight elite chefs will be selected to compete, so make your entry unforgettable. txrestaurantshow.com/tapas26
Texas Restaurant Association retweeted
.@TXRestaurants, a lead partner in the "Seat the Table" campaign, released its 2026 first-quarter report revealing the mounting pressure on the state’s hospitality industry. As food and fuel costs climb, restaurant operators are struggling to stay afloat while facing a shrinking pool of available workers.
"Immigration is difficult and has had an impact on the restaurant industry [and] the farming industry, which again, then raises prices along the way," says TRA Chief Marketing Officer Tony Abroscato. He notes that while food costs have surged 35% since the pandemic, a lack of available labor is creating a secondary crisis that makes those costs even harder to manage.
More: seatthetable.org/
It’s official: TRA has received its award as one of the Fastest-Growing Trade Shows in the United States in @TradeShowExec ’s 2025 Fastest 50 rankings!
Don’t miss your chance to attend the biggest Texas Restaurant Show yet! fthr-content.txrestaurant.or…
Here’s why creating work permits for the long-term immigrants who have paid taxes, not committed crimes, and contributed for years is the right thing to do and crucial for our economy
Without immigrant workers and entrepreneurs, restaurants close, and communities suffer.
So we’ve partnered with the Seat the Table coalition to tell Congress: create work permits for the hard-working immigrants who make the meals you love possible.