KFC named a longtime cooks, one with 25 years of experience, as "chief chicken officer." Aaron Person beat out 5,000 other cooks throughout the KFC system.
Yum! Brands Inc., the quick-service franchisor with some of the strongest international footholds of any restaurant company, said its growth abroad has only just begun.
Twenty years ago Edward Lee was a carefree literature student at the University of Michigan. But when his parents bought a struggling Manhattan diner, Lee was summoned home to pitch in, and he wasn’t happy about it.
Although pepperoni remains the king of pizza toppings by a large margin, according to The NPD Group, a Port Washington, N.Y.-based research firm, customers are showing an interest in experimenting with unusual ingredients.
Even as the recession battered the U.S. economy over the past several years, multiunit restaurant managers and general managers in some smaller markets were enjoying double-digit-percentage pay hikes, according to a survey by the Chain Restaurant Compensation Association, or CRCA, and the Hay Group, a human resources consulting firm.
Long John Silver’s, A&W All-American Food and Arby’s were put up for sale last month, stoking speculation about potential buyers, the state of restaurant industry mergers and acquisitions, and the future of these chains.