LEBANON Tenn. CBRL Group Inc., parent of the 581-unit Cracker Barrel Old Country Store chain, reported a nearly 8-percent drop in first-quarter profit against rising costs and falling sales, a trend the company said it expects to continue through...
ORLANDO Fla. —Longtime futurist and trends analyst Peter Leyden, the former managing editor of Wired magazine, will assess the technological and sociopolitical changes shaping cultural and business...
NEW YORK Tavern on the Green, one of the most famous restaurants in Manhattan and one of the highest-grossing eateries anywhere, with annual sales estimated at $37.6 million. —Interest is...
Sometimes in the hurly-burly of covering all the restaurant news, a press release passes across our paper-strewn desks that contains valuable information that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.Such was one news-you-can-use parcel from an astute...
With holiday shopping sprees likely to be reduced this season, restaurants in retail malls and mixed-use lifestyle centers are girding for a Scrooge-like dampening of usually robust December sales.Retail chain stores posted their weakest October...
Erik Blauberg made his name designing kitchens and engineering menus at venerable Manhattan restaurants in the 1990s like Colors, American Renaissance and the 21 Club, but his success was hardly limited to New York. He also was...
Text messages, video and audio podcasts, e-mail, social networks, blogs, microblogs, vodcasting, wikis, virtual worlds—technology today offers a vast array of methods to educate the workforce that are more affordable and easy to...
TAMPA Fla. OSI Restaurant Partners LLC, the parent of Outback Steakhouse and other brands, said today it had agreed to sell the majority of its stake in the six-unit Lee Roy Selmon’s chain to an entity led by Outback Steakhouse founders Bob Basham...
