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LEBANON Tenn. CBRL Group Inc., parent of the Cracker Barrel family-dining chain, said Friday that its board had authorized the repurchase of up to $65 million of common stock. CBRL had roughly 22.15 million shares outstanding as of its...
PORTLAND Ore. Legislators for the Oregon county that encompasses Portland voted Thursday to require the disclosure of nutrition information on the menus of some chain restaurants. Approval of the measure, which applies to local units of...
BATON ROUGE La. Atalaya Capital Management LP, which has offices in New York and Atlanta, and CRG Partners, with offices in nine U.S. cities and Vienna, Austria, have taken over the management of the Bennigan's Grill & Bar franchise system in the...
WASHINGTON The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said consumers should avoid eating raw serrano peppers from Mexico after a sample tested positive for the rare Saintpaul strain of salmonella. The FDA's warning also includes raw jalapenos from...
MARYVILLE Tenn. Ruby Tuesday plans to blow up its last “old-style” restaurant Aug. 5 and broadcast the demolition online, according to a notice on its website, www.rubytuesday.com. The stunt is designed to bid farewell to the casual-dining...
PAWLEY'S ISLAND S.C. Celebrated Southern chef Louis Osteen said he plans to close his restaurants here to concentrate on his pair of Las Vegas eateries. Louis's at Pawley's and The Fish Camp Bar in Pawley's Island will close after Labor Day...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Nearly every marketing program is expensive—unless you get your customers to pay for it. Napa River Grill here did just that prior to moving from a nearly 40-year old building to a custom-built facility in June. Seeking to...
MILWAUKEE A jury awarded $7.1 million in compensation to Sizzler USA on Wednesday to cap a long-running dispute with meat supplier Excel Corp. over a lethal E. coli outbreak in 2000. The verdict found that the subsidiary of Cargill Inc...
SAN DIEGO Lowell Petrie has been named vice president of marketing for the fast-casual Daphne’s Greek Cafe chain. Petrie previously was vice president of marketing and public relations for Mimi’s Cafe, based in Tustin, Calif. Prior to that...
SPARTANBURG S.C. Denny’s Corp. reported a steep drop in net income for the second quarter on slowed consumer spending at its family-dining chain and the sale of corporate restaurants. For the quarter ended June 25, Denny’s posted profit of ...
