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.
WASHINGTON —A farmers’ cooperative based in North Dakota is making a concerted effort to bring sustainable agriculture to Pennsylvania—Avenue, that is. The cooperative plans to open a second...
(Editor’s note: This story originally accompanied, “Execs tout Web-based apps that lighten back-office workload,” this month’s Tech Trends Featured Story, which you can read by clicking here.)Back-office software packages that fully or...
MESA ARIZ. —As the world’s largest retailer takes direct aim at competing restaurants in unflattering TV ads, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. also is launching a new retail concept featuring prepared meals that...
Third in a weekly series of reports on operators’ survival tactics in market areas that have been hit especially hard by the nation’s economic downturn.DETROIT — Restaurateurs in auto-industry...
Carla Gambescia has brand ambition when it comes to her weeks-old restaurant, Via Vanti! A marketing and advertising veteran with years of experience at such firms as Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam and with such foodservice clients...
ATLANTA With the kick-off of the football season, some restaurant chains are scrambling for yardage with new menu items aimed at patrons who want to watch a game while they eat. Hooters, for instance, hit the field yesterday with four bargain...
TAYLORS S.C. Fatz Cafe, the 45-unit casual-dining chain, plans to use a $40 million recapitalization to refinance its debt and fund expansion, the company and its financial sponsors said Tuesday. The deal was completed this summer by...
COLUMBUS Ohio Gosh Enterprises, franchisor or operator of 355 Charley’s Grilled Subs quick-service restaurants, has named Joel Mirman vice president of its legal department. Mirman previously provided outside legal counsel to Gosh and to...
COLUMBUS Ohio The Ohio Restaurant Association is lauding a decision by the Service Employees International Union District 1199 and Ohioans for Healthy Families Coalition to withdraw their proposal for mandatory paid sick leave from the Nov. 4...
BELLINGHAM Mass. A Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee group is seeking increased oversight of the chain’s co-op advertising fund following the indictment last week of a former executive of brand parent Dunkin’ Brands, who was accused of siphoning off...
