NRN surveyed over 400 restaurant operators for our latest market leader report. Discover how these industry leaders are leveraging data to shape their strategies and drive success.
ROANOKE Va. Western Sizzlin Corp. has proposed an exchange offer for up to 680,500 shares of Jack in the Box Inc., which would represent about 1.2 percent of that company's 56.7 million shares outstanding. Jack in the Box said in a...
HEATHROW Fla. Ruth’s Hospitality Group Inc. said Monday that chief executive and president Michael P. O’Donnell had assumed day-to-day responsibility for its Ruth’s Chris Steak House brand following the resignation of chain president Geoffrey D. K...
After El Pollo Loco was featured in an episode of “The Apprentice” last year, I interviewed president and chief executive Stephen Carley about the topic of product placement. I asked whether product placement was getting out of...
WASHINGTON —Acting to head off a spreading patchwork of menu-labeling rules at the state and local levels, a coalition of trade associations and foodservice chains has been working with two U.S...
Charley’s Grilled Subs franchisee Marcus Gilbert is only able to offer health insurance to full-time employees at his two stores in Utah, but that didn’t stop him from going all out for one of his teenage workers. Last month he gave one of his...
Given Americans’ propensity for food that is easy to eat and doesn’t remind them of animal parts, the popularity of the chicken wing could be considered a marvel.Messy, sticky, containing bones and very much resembling an appendage on a large...
David French got an early taste of the restaurant business in high school when he took a job as a busboy at Jake’s Above the Square in Pittsburgh. Later in college he spent three years managing a student restaurant on the Wesleyan campus for...
Faced with escalating costs for everything from food to utilities to delivery surcharges, independent and small-chain operators who can’t benefit from volume-purchasing discounts are finding other ways to balance their budgets.Operators who are...
After running a couple of online job ads, independent chef-restaurateur Bob Finigan and his wife, Karen, had plenty of applicants to choose from for the opening of their new Blue Rooster Bakery & Café in Cranbury, N.J., an affluent community with...
Diverse roots, an almost insatiable interest for discovery and love for the kitchen combined to drive Heather Terhune to the executive chef post at Atwood Café in Chicago’s Hotel Burnham in 1999 at the tender age of 27.Terhune was born in Vermont...
