LOS ANGELES California Pizza Kitchen Inc. has opened the first quick-service location of its namesake full-service chain on a college campus in Hempstead, N.Y. The store is located at Hofstra University and operated by Lackmann Culinary Services...
NEW YORK The owners of Mama Mexico Restaurants, a three-unit chain of upscale casual Mexican restaurants located in midtown Manhattan and Englewood, N.J., have been sued for violating state labor laws by allegedly withholding employee wages and...
During the last five decades, MUFSO attendees have had the opportunity to listen to hundreds of the country’s best and brightest as they shared their observations about business in general and the restaurant industry in particular. While speakers...
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc. has installed about 12,000 energy-efficient lights from GE Consumer & Industrial. Also this week: IBM, EMN8, J.M. Smucker Co., Coca-Cola Co., Temple-Inland, Adina For Life, Phillips Food Inc., and D’Artagnan. ...
AUSTIN Texas Mama Fu's Asian House, a 12-unit pan-Asian chain, said Monday it has redesigned its menu panels to make them easier to read and added several new dishes.Marcia Oakes, director of marketing for Mama Fu’s, said the new menu is featured...
CHICAGO —As young diners grow increasingly savvy about nutrition—although they still don’t always eat what’s good for them—restaurants should cater their kids’ menus to changing preferences...
This summer, more than a few restaurant operators are making lemonade their main squeeze, using the familiar iced and tangy beverage as a springboard for some of the season’s most cooling cocktails.They say that the riffs that result—simple but...
Douglas Wright, president of Upper Saddle River, N.J.-based UGotta Try, launched the online-coupon service last month because, he said, hope is not a strategy. “If I’m a restaurant owner, I want somebody to refer me, and all I...
For this signature dish, chef Carlos Barros of Quahog’s Seafood Shack in Stone Harbor, N.J., marinates mild-flavored pacu fish ribs, in chipotle-orange barbecue sauce for about five hours. Then he grills the fish for about two and a half minutes...
Anand Gala grew up in the restaurant business, hanging out in his parents’ franchised locations of Jack in the Box in the afternoons and during summer recess in grade school. It wasn’t the typical childhood, he admits, but it...
