SAN MARCOS, CALIF. Chick-fil-A chain entered its fourth decade of business and hailed the debut of its second restaurant here, a launch that also represented continuity for the brand’s founders, the Cathy family. ...
Restaurant chefs are borrowing from their counterparts in the manufacturing world again, this time by using vinegar powder to bring tanginess to their food without added moisture.Vinegar powder is used by research and development chefs to add...
MINNEAPOLIS —Carly Fiorina, the deposed chairwoman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard will be a keynote speaker at the Women’s Foodservice Forum’s 2007 annual Leadership Development Conference to be held April 15-18 in Orlando...
Growing concern about trans fat in foods has several legislatures and foodservice operators taking swift action to ban the substance, but consumers still are not making dining choices based on the potentially harmful fat.While consumers say that...
CHICAGO Baja Fresh Mexican Grill chief executive who joined the 140-unit Potbelly Sandwich Works as president and chief financial officer in April 2005, has left the company. —Bill Moreton, the onetime His...
Metropolitan, a restaurant in Salt Lake City, recently garnered yet another four-diamond rating from the American Automobile Association. The AAA accolade is no small feat considering that Metropolitan is operating without an executive chef. About...
DENVER Quiznos has appointed former Burger King chief executive Greg Brenneman as its president and chief executive, simultaneous with his private-equity firm’s purchase of an undisclosed stake in the sandwich-shop franchisor. Brenneman...
MIAMI Burger King Corp. has awarded exclusive development rights for that country to Burger King Japan Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Tokyo-based Lotte Co. Ltd. and Revamp Corp., also based in Japan. ...
My company recently wrapped up a year of detailed research into best practices of more than 450 high-performing multiunit managers, or MUMs, across various industry segments. I’ve compiled those key learnings into a new book on multiunit...
Jay Fagnano had been out of the fine-dining business for a decade, so when he opened the Larchmont Grill in Los Angeles last summer, he was struck by how much the world of restaurant criticism had changed. In the early ’90s, he...
