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LOS ANGELES California Pizza Kitchen Inc. said Wednesday it expected to record a fourth-quarter net loss, versus a year-earlier profit, on negative same-store sales and impairment charges on 10 of its restaurants. The operator or...
FORT LAUDERDALE Fla. Pizza Fusion, the 16-unit chain that emphasizes organic ingredients, has appointed Jerry Woda to the new post of chief financial officer. Woda, who most recently was CFO at Miami Subs, will oversee Pizza Fusion’s...
BATON ROUGE La. Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, the 80-unit quick-service chain based here, has promoted Brad Sanders to chief development officer and Ian Vaughn to senior vice president of operations. Sanders, most recently...
RIDGELAND Miss. Fast-casual sandwich chain McAlister’s Deli said it has appointed Bill McClintock to the newly created position of senior vice president of development. His first official duty for the nearly 300-unit chain will be developing an...
NEW YORK Restaurant operators large and small provided their outlooks for the year ahead -- and most of them were not pretty. At the seventh annual Cowen & Co. consumer investment conference in New York, which took place Monday and Tuesday...
MIAMI Benihana Inc. cited slowed consumer spending for negative same-store sales across all three of its Japanese brands. For the third quarter ended Jan. 4, Benihana also reported that total restaurant sales slipped 3.7 percent, to $66.8...
NEW YORK Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc. said Tuesday that turnaround plans for Wendy’s include the delay of a systemwide breakfast introduction until 2011, as the chain retools its offerings with product tests in just three markets. Speaking...
NEW YORK The Rainbow Room was given a temporary lease on life Monday when a judge issued a court order allowing the iconic establishment’s operators to remain open for business despite a bitter lease termination dispute with landlord Tishman...
BOSTON Uno Chicago Grill on Tuesday said they would speed up the national rollout of new gluten-free pizzas after strong consumer demand during market tests of the products. Uno officials said the gluten-free option has received a...
EDINA Minn. —Dairy Queen, looking for additional brand exposure, is selling a video game, “DQ Tycoon,” that mimics running one of its quick-service restaurants, chain sources said. Dairy Queen, best known for frozen...