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NEW YORK —Restaurateur Danny Meyer has formed a new division of his New York-based Union Square Hospitality Group intended to clone his hometown restaurant concepts at stadiums and sports arenas...
MANITOWOC WIS. —Manitowoc Co., the ice-machine maker based here, beat out Illinois Tool Works Inc. in an auction to acquire restaurant equipment supplier Enodis Plc., which said it would recommend...
The “interactive restaurant” concept uWink has gone Hollywood. Literally. After about a year of fine-tuning the prototype unit in Woodland Hills, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, uWink Inc., opened a second location in July in the heart of...
DUBLIN OHIO Wendy’s International Inc., based here, said it has introduced a new line of premium T. Marzetti Co. salad dressings that are all-natural and contain no preservatives. —Wendy’s...
When life gives you such lemons as rising energy, labor and food costs and falling consumer confidence and spending, make lemonade — or rather Mint Lemonade, Freckled Lemonade, Berry Good Lemonade, and lemonade and vodka, or mix lemon and...
“It’s a baby lesson,” Ellen Burke Van Slyke says of the new Spice Market mini-menu she introduced recently at Mistral restaurant in Coronado, Calif. Her goal is to have her guests “wake up and taste the spice” and then maybe—all in the interests...
WASHINGTON —When server Anne Lettieri needs to know the weekly schedule for her shifts at The Tombs restaurant here, she checks her e-mail, or she can opt to get the schedule in a text message on her cell phone. If she wants to add a...
The dinner was an elegant event. Twelve diners, evenly matched by gender and largely strangers to one another, had paid $125 a person to enjoy a five-course meal steeped in patrician privilege.Courses, each paired with wine, included savory broths...
NEW YORK McDonald's push toward a U.S. systemwide rollout of espresso-based beverages has expanded fitfully to 1,700 restaurants, with internal data suggesting that sales in most of the chain's six major test markets have fallen, sometimes sharply...
ORLANDO Fla. Fazoli’s Inc., franchisor of the namesake fast-casual pasta chain, is reportedly looking to sell or sublease at least nine units in Florida as part of a shift in its franchising strategy. The Orlando Business Journal reported...
