LOS ANGELES Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has sold his Los Angeles restaurant The London West Hollywood to the hotel where it operates, officials confirmed Monday. The London, which has been open less than a year, was sold to LXR Luxury...
NEW YORK Despite all of the stormy speculation surrounding the U.S. economy in general and the restaurant industry in particular, some silver linings are making their way through the clouds. Consumers, the lifeblood of both the macro...
Palmetto Bluff is a four-year-old planned community near Hilton Head Island, built on the banks of South Carolina’s May River, which locals say has both stone crabs and blue crabs. It is part of the township of Bluffton, which is famous among food...
While the tumultuous economy buffets other foodservice segments, wine bars with sizable food components are proving to have some strong legs in tough times.Wine bar restaurants have been a fixture in wine-rich California for decades, but new wine...
Thomas J. Baldwin has seen a lot of changes in the steakhouse segment since joining Morton’s Restaurant Group in 1989 as chief financial officer and vice president of finance. At that time there were nine Morton’s The Steakhouse units; today the...
AUSTIN Texas Mama Fu’s Asian House has used direct marketing and e-mail to promote its concept from the beginning. Much of that advertising was sent to potential customers at their workplaces and offices, because, as director of marketing Marcia...
Don Feinstein has learned an expensive lesson: Though initially costly to achieve, energy efficiency is money in the bank. Over the last year, the chairman of Emerald Foods Inc. and Diamond Foods LLC, two Wendy’s franchise...
When two rival motorcycle gangs started fighting in a McDonald’s parking lot in Long Island one summer evening, then 19-year-old nighttime manager Paul Facella knew he had to do something. He told his employees to call the police...
Imagine a young leader in your organization sends you a persuasively written request for funding and asks for time away from her day-to-day job to attend a professional development event that could improve her job performance and make her a better...
NEW YORK —As public-health advocates in this city and others pour pressure on restaurant companies to lower the amount of salt in their food products, a growing number of operators already are...
