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ORLANDO Fla. Darden Restaurants Inc. has steeply lowered its fiscal-year forecast and projected first quarter results below Wall Street expectations, citing a “more challenging than anticipated economic and consumer environment.” Many...
IRVINE Calif. Spectrum Restaurant Group, the once-prominent multiconcept group that slipped into bankruptcy two years ago, is selling two more remnants of its glory days: A Prego restaurant in Irvine, Calif., and Harry’s Bar in La Jolla. ...
SEATTLE Starbucks has rolled its new Clover coffee-brewing machines into 10 units here to begin the introduction of a proprietary coffee line priced at $2 to $4 per cup. The hot and iced drinks are brewed a cup at a time from limited-production...
MIAMI Burger King has introduced a Spicy Chicken BK Wrapper, joining many of its quick-service competitors in offering snack-sized chicken wraps. The Spicy Chicken Wrapper, available for a limited time, is made with a Spicy Chick'n Crisp...
ORLANDO Fla. On Labor Day, 400 Wendy's units in Florida will give away coupons for more than a million free Double Stack hamburgers. AWendy's official said in a press release that the giveaway was the chain's way of helping out workers in...
When brainstorming concepts, restaurateurs say they tap the same well of inspiration to conceive their projects that writers, painters, composers, choreographers and preachers do: life, the universe and everything in between.In the competitive...
Restaurants seeking to find different ways to target consumers inevitably turn to new media, but a few chains have hit the road to reach consumers with an old standby: delivery service. Offering delivery isn’t exactly a revolutionary...
NEW YORK —Debt is just a four-letter word for some restaurant companies. This month more revelations of arduous negotiations with lenders and possible loan defaults came to light as...
