PORT WASHINGTON N.Y. —The NPD Group, the market research firm based here, named Arnie Schwartz president of the company’s U.S. foodservice business. He succeeds Dave Jenkins. The former...
ASPEN Colo. —Culinary luminaries and restaurateurs wrestled with the recession, partnerships, opportunities, morale and creativity during a seminar series held at the annual Food & Wine Classic in...
Ludovic Lefebvre’s wife Krissy likes to refer to her husband as “the chef with no restaurant who serves dinner five nights a week.” Known in Los Angeles as the former chef at the now-defunct restaurants Bastide and L’Orangerie—both once...
When first lady Michelle Obama flipped a few spades of sod this spring to start a vegetable garden on the White House lawn, Alice Waters saw a dream come true. Waters, founder of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and arguably the mother of the...
ATLANTA Chick-fil-A said this week it would introduce a spicy fried chicken sandwich next year and continue testing breakfast items, including yogurt parfaits. According to a company spokesperson Nicole Mooneyhan, Chick-fil-A has internally...
WASHINGTON As the battle over immigration heats up, restaurant association officials are hopeful that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will go through with its decision to rescind the controversial Social Security “no-match” rule despite a...
SAN MARCOS Calif. Submarina California Subs, the 65-unit, all-franchised sandwich chain, said last week that Kerensa Investment Fund 1 LLC had closed on a “significant investment” to help support the restaurant chain’s future growth.Officials...
SAN DIEGO Following the increasingly common trend of value meals priced at $5 or less, the fast-casual Pat & Oscar’s chain debuted this week a series of individual pizzas with the theme “Five Big Choices, Five Little Bucks.” The pizzas are...
WASHINGTON A new federal regulation aimed at preventing sickness from salmonella in eggs should not cause significant price hikes, said a spokesman for a leading egg producers group. The Food and Drug Administration announced new rules earlier...
NEW ORLEANS Gin might not be the new vodka, but it has emerged from relative obscurity to the forefront of the spirits world, thanks to the efforts of bartenders, according to panelists who kicked off this year’s Tales of the Cocktail conference...
