Ron E. Green made the leap from working on the superconducting supercollider to opening the Broken Egg Café, a full-service restaurant specializing in breakfast, brunch and lunch.
Subway co-founder Fred DeLuca is not at home for a scheduled interview. A reporter waits five minutes, calls DeLuca’s cell phone and receives a sincere apology for his tardiness; a morning meeting with franchisees ran longer than expected, and it’s not finished.
Restaurant operators can celebrate the worst of the recent economic downturn being over, but they shouldn’t expect a broad, robust recovery in the near term, officials at research firm Technomic Inc. told attendees of its 2010 Trends & Directions Conference.