OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald’s units in the Chicago area this week began offering several breakfast items for $1 to drive traffic during the morning meal. The nation’s largest hamburger chain confirmed Wednesday that it is...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Papa John’s founder and chief executive John Schnatter’s nationwide search for his long-lost 1971 Z28 Camaro is over, and he’s feeling generous.Papa John’s not only will pay a $250,000 finder’s fee to...
LAKE FOREST Calif. Del Taco, the 500-unit quick-service Mexican chain based here, announced it is teaming up with the Arizona Cardinals once again for promotions during the 2009 National Football League season. The...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Sister chain Taco Bell may use the tag line “Think outside the bun,” but KFC actually is putting that philosophy into practice with the test of a new product: the Double Down. The “sandwich” replaces...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Papa John’s International said Monday it has named Andrew Varga senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Varga, who joins the parent of more than 3,400 pizza restaurants worldwide after 21...
CHICAGO Like the athletes who train for years to shine on the biggest stage in sports, foodservice operators in Chicago are giving their all to bring home the gold as the Windy City makes its case to the International...
CHICAGO Concentrics Restaurants, the Atlanta-based multi-concept operator owned by Bob Amick and Todd Rushing, expanded outside the Southeast for the first time this summer at theWit Hotel in Chicago. Fittingly, to...
CHICAGO Catering to the growing number of consumers choosing to eat and entertain at home is a largely underserved sales opportunity for restaurants, according to a new report from Chicago-based consulting firm...
Anand Gala grew up in the restaurant business, hanging out in his parents’ franchised locations of Jack in the Box in the afternoons and during summer recess in grade school. It wasn’t the typical...
Douglas Wright, president of Upper Saddle River, N.J.-based UGotta Try, launched the online-coupon service last month because, he said, hope is not a strategy. “If I’m a restaurant owner, I want...
