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NEW YORK Despite continued weakness in same-store sales growth for nearly all U.S. restaurants, corporate financial risk and bankruptcy fears for leveraged companies are moderating, according to a Tuesday report from Fitch Ratings, a corporate...
Dan Stone, director of franchise sales at The Melting Pot, a 140-unit-plus casual-dining chain, had spent months courting national lender CIT Group to garner preferential treatment for the fondue chain’s franchisees. He wrote...
DALLAS Darden Restaurants, Doug Brooks of Brinker International and David Brandon of Domino’s Pizza will sit down with Nation’s Restaurant News’ editor Ellen Koteff for a frank discussion about how to compete and win in today’s challenging...
Taco Bell’s two-minute TV commercial that aired during the Major League Baseball All-Star Game qualifies as an advertising blockbuster, and chain officials credit the decision to premiere a 60-second version in movie theaters as critical to the...
Retail companies that have shown annual sales increases of 3 percent or better are more likely to implement sustainability initiatives in the workplace than those firms with smaller growth, a recent study found.The survey, conducted by Miami-based...
One look at his current or past academic titles, such as Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering and Dean’s Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty, tells you that best-selling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former institutional trader...
The appropriateness of remotely hosting point-of-sale system software for multiple locations and relying on centralized storage for restaurant-level-transaction data has been a point of contention within the industry for years.Proponents, many...
Mohan Ismail grew up in Singapore and honed his culinary skills in New York City working with chefs such as Floyd Cardoz at Tabla and Jean-Georges Vongerichten at Spice Market. Later, he developed the menu for a cafe in the...
CLEVELAND —With most budgets suffering from recession-related cutbacks, restaurant trainers and human resources managers are looking for inexpensive ways to keep employees trained and able to serve...
As director of wine for San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels, Emily Wines is anything but green when it comes to selecting varieties for the company’s eco-friendly wine program. Currently, 30 percent of all wines served at Kimpton...