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WASHINGTON Sen. Thomas Carper announced Tuesday afternoon that he will introduce within a week a federal bill mandating nutrition disclosure from some chain restaurants. Although labeling mandates have been proposed on Capitol Hill before, this...
This is the fourth in a series of seven articles exploring the growth cycles of some of the industry’s hottest concepts. Each story looks at a different facet of the evolution of emerging chains, from conception to financing to expansion into new...
Jamba Juice store managers in Hawaii love the flexibility of their schedules, says Dean McPhail, chief executive and owner of JJC Hawaii LLC, the smoothie chain’s Honolulu-based franchisee. That got McPhail thinking: Wouldn’t the employees in his...
MONTEREY CALIF. —Restaurateurs at the annual Produce Marketing Association Foodservice Conference & Exposition here heard that while progress is being made in preventing, tracking and publicizing...
New York chef Seamus Mullen knows a farmer in Vermont who slaughters a hog on Monday, hangs it for all of Tuesday and then delivers it to Boqueria, Mullen’s Spanish tapas restaurant in Manhattan, on Wednesday. “We pretty much move from one end to...
MINNEAPOLIS The Women’s Foodservice Forum said Monday that chairwoman Linda Pharr had assumed day-to-day operation of the association following the departure of president Mary Bentley. The group indicated that a search would be conducted to find a...
Programs to promote eco-friendly practices and diversity say a lot about a restaurant company’s willingness to make a difference. But what is one to think if a company jettisons one for the other? Among the explanations offered for why attendance...
NASHVILLE TENN. —Despite escalating wheat and dairy costs, the four-unit Bread and Company bakery-cafe chain here has eliminated its employee discount for food and now lets workers eat free. ...
Back in the Dark Ages—by that I mean the 1980s—marketers were agog over the potential to expand their range of consumer targeting through the use of that new medium called the facsimile machine.Restaurants could fax promotional offers and their...
Once ranked among the fastest-growing chains in NRN’s Top 100 chain census for expanding by 1,000 units a year, Denver-based Quiznos has slowed its growth to 300 domestic restaurants a year. Currently, Quiznos owns one unit and is the franchisor...
