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CHICAGO Prolific multiconcept operator Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises opened two Mexican concepts in Las Vegas on Thursday, a week after debuting its latest Chicago restaurant, M Burger. Located at the Fashion Show Mall on the Las Vegas Strip...
CHICAGO Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy and Ferdinand Metz are among those who will honored in May at the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation's annual Salute to Excellence Awards. The awards ceremony will be held May 22 at...
LOS ANGELES The mobile food vendor scene in Los Angeles got a new set of wheels this week with the debut of the city’s first “bus-taurant,” a double-decker bus serving high-end fare. Unlike the growing number of food truck operators throughout the...
Good food fast is an elusive goal. Sonoma Chicken, a four-unit chain based in San Jose, Calif., claims to ace it with fast-casual service and a kitchen built for rapid scratch cooking of casual-dining-caliber fare. The fledgling chain aspires to...
With the advent of smart-phone apps, enhanced mobile websites and scannable 2-D bar codes, marketers can easily get overwhelmed trying to keep up. But restaurants don’t always have to chase the next big thing in mobile marketing to succeed...
HOUSTON Luby’s Inc., parent of the 96-unit cafeteria chain, swung to a loss in the second quarter from a year-ago profit as it struggled to drive traffic despite lower menu prices. For the quarter ended Feb. 10, Luby's posted a net loss of $450...
WASHINGTON Matthew Shay is stepping down from his post as president and chief executive of the International Franchise Association to take the helm at the National Retail Federation. Shay will remain with the IFA until April 16. A search for his...
The number of people with confirmed cases of shigella illness associated with a franchised Subway restaurant in Lombard, Ill., has climbed to 78, with 11 of those individuals requiring hospitalization, public health officials said Wednesday...
March Madness, the annual hoopla surrounding the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, may be a well-publicized drain on workplace productivity, but don’t tell that to the millions of restaurant industry employees ready to work overtime as games tip...
SEATTLE Starting in May, Starbucks customers will be able to customize their Frappuccinos much the same way they can for the coffeehouse giant's other drinks. Calling it a rollout of the “however-you-want-it Frappuccino,” Starbucks officials said...