Carolyn Walkup

Asian-inspired chains are tapping appetites that have propelled that continent’s cuisines into the American consumer mainstream, though some prominent brands have shrunk in size recently or curtailed growth plans...

Soup tends to be a hot-selling item this time of year, but operators of soup-focused restaurants are expanding other parts of their menus to avoid being left out in the cold as the category loses some of its steam. ...

It takes more than horrific natural and man-made disasters to keep three of the nation’s most beloved restaurant cities down.New Orleans, New York and San Francisco have largely recovered from tremendous losses that...

Columbia Restaurant, founded by the Gonz-mart family in Tampa, Fla., in 1905, has survived challenging times that included two world wars, Prohibition and the Great Depression. But today, the ability to thrive as an...

As a growing number of lawmakers seek to snuff out secondhand smoke at workplaces throughout their states, resistance to those bans continues to wane among restaurant groups in favor of consistent prohibitions for all...

SALES FORECASTRestaurant sales in the Midwest are expected to increase by 3.7 percent in 2008, or just 0.1 percent after factoring in menu price inflation, the lowest predicted regional rise.That lackluster outlook...

Limited-menu operators who had favored shopping mall food court sites are modifying their concepts for alternative venues that are less susceptible to inflated occupancy costs and traffic losses to discount retailers...