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DENVER Chipotle Mexican Grill said it intends to reward its most creative and enthusiastic fans with a $10,000 grand prize in its ongoing “My Chipotle” user-generated advertising campaign. Fans that register on the fast-casual...
CHICAGO Long celebrated as one of the pre-eminent developers of inventive and profitable restaurant concepts, Richard Melman, founder and chairman of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, will be honored as Nation's Restaurant News' 2009 Pioneer...
WOODBURY N.Y. On-site foodservice conglomerate Compass Group PLC has entered into an agreement to acquire Lackmann Culinary Services, a Woodbury, N.Y.-based contractor specializing in college and corporate dining, sources at Lackmann confirmed...
CORTE MADERA Calif. Vine Dining Enterprises Inc. said it has reorganized its executive team following the closure of two of its five trademark Left Bank brasserie restaurants. Vine Dining chairman Edward Levine said last week that he has resumed...
MINNEAPOLIS The Oceanaire Seafood Room's parent company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and shuttered four of its 16 locations, the company said Monday. Restaurants in Philadelphia; Charlotte, N.C.; Cincinnati; and Seattle were...
MINNEAPOLIS Famous Dave’s of America Inc., operator or franchisor of 176 barbecue restaurants, said last week it has paid down debt to reduce interest expense and closed on lease terminations for two locations in Atlanta. The moves resulted in a...
DUBLIN Ohio Wendy’s recently performed consumer taste tests on numerous breakfast items, including sandwiches, warm breakfast bars and kids’ dishes, according to a participant in the taste test. Among the made-to-order sandwich tests were an...
GOLDEN Colo. Home-meal replacement is not dead, says Lane Cardwell, the new chief executive of Boston Market Corp., the Golden, Colo.-based chain that led the HMR wave of the '90s only to stumble into bankruptcy at the end of...
IRVINE Calif. Taco Bell has signed a four-year advertising deal to become the official quick-service restaurant of the National Basketball Association, replacing longtime sponsor McDonald’s Corp.Taco Bell, based here, and the NBA announced the...