Todd Graves’ business card identifies him as founder, chief executive, fry cook and cashier. Now the restaurateur can add another title: undercover millionaire. The founder of Baton Rouge, La.-based Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers...
BIRMINGHAM Ala. Industry veteran Greg Dollarhyde will assume the roles of president and chief executive of Zoë’s Kitchen, a 21-unit fast-casual chain where he already serves as executive chairman. In his expanded role, Dollarhyde replaces Zoë’s co...
Acrisis is a terrible thing to waste.While walking the halls, holding meetings and breaking bread at the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference in Las Vegas, it was clear the industry would heed that warning. Operators, lenders and analysts...
In addition to exciting the envy of other chefs, the lavishly equipped kitchen of L2O, the upscale seafood restaurant in Chicago developed by Laurent Gras and Richard Melman, promises to prompt new ideas about equipment usage and layout. ...
OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald’s USA launched its inaugural Sustainability Award when it honored Smithfield Foods Inc., at its 2008 Supplier Summit here. —The Sustainability Award, which McDonald’s...
Financial turmoil has helped depress commodity prices across the board. The Dow Jones-AIG index of 19 commodity prices fell a record-setting 21.3 percent in the month of October, hitting a five-year low by the end of the month. But a number of...
The shouted responses from the 80-plus servers, greeters, bartenders, cooks and dishwashers who were sitting in the crowded dining room at 9 o’clock that rainy Saturday morning were both frenzied and unnerving.“Fifty cents.”“Eighty cents.”“Thirty...
ANN ARBOR Mich. Domino’s Pizza, based here, has partnered with digital video recorder service provider TiVo Inc. to allow consumers to order pizzas and track delivery using their TV sets. ...
