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TAMPA Fla. Beef ‘O’ Brady’s, the 267-unit sports pub chain based here, has named Ad Partners of Tampa its media agency, with responsibility for handling placement of television, radio and newspaper ads and direct mail in 60 markets, officials...
COLUMBUS Ohio Responding to other quick-service brands’ intensive marketing of their kids’ meals, Charley’s Grilled Subs, a 382-unit sandwich chain, will add a two-pack of Oreo cookies to its existing kids’ meal of three chicken fingers, fries and...
As the nation celebrates the July Fourth holiday, a variety of restaurants, from Arby's to Tropical Smoothie Cafe, are firing up their barbecue-theme specials. Arby's recently introduced the BBQ Bacon Cheddar Roastburger, which...
MIAMI Burger King is testing a new website that lets Internet users have it their way by allowing them to tone down the king and enhance the food. Slider controls at the top of the web page, which is in beta test by the company’s advertising...
JACKSONVILLE Fla. The Loop Pizza Grill will add two toasted, open-faced ciabatta sandwiches to its menu beginning July 27.The Grilled Veggie Ciabatta combines grilled zucchini, squash and red onion, Kalamata olives, roasted red peppers, portobello...
ANNAPOLIS Md. Washington, D.C.-based fine-dining chef Bob Kinkead opened June 27 a casual New England-style neighborhood seafood restaurant here. The chef-owner of Kinkead’s in Washington...
EMERYVILLE Calif. Jamba Inc. said it is selling nine corporate Jamba Juice units to a franchisee in Oregon as part of a refranchising initiative it announced earlier this year. Jamba said late Wednesday that The Cinnamon Bums Inc., operator of...
OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald's long-awaited rollout of the Angus Third Pounder places the quick-service giant squarely on the front line of what is rapidly heating up into a premium burger war.McDonald's new line of hamburgers, which are made with a...
FRANKLIN Tenn. North American consumers are increasingly comfortable with using self-service technology to order food, check themselves out at stores and buy tickets, but some quick-service restaurant owners nonetheless have qualms about deploying...
NEW HAVEN Conn. Restaurant owner Andrew Adames, who earlier this week pleaded guilty to a federal charge of knowingly employing illegal aliens, faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced Sept. 18, the U.S. attorney's...