From Oct. 4-7 MUFSO 2009 will celebrate its golden anniversary, marking five decades of Multiunit Foodservice Operators conferences. The upcoming MUFSO in Dallas truly will be a celebration of this important industry...
LOS ANGELES Long known for its “outside the bun” thinking when it comes to advertising, Taco Bell won recognition for its creative work last year, outranking all other restaurant brands on the “Top Scoring Television...
Erik Blauberg made his name designing kitchens and engineering menus at venerable Manhattan restaurants in the 1990s like Colors, American Renaissance and the 21 Club, but his success was hardly...
Whether we’re in a textbook definition of a recession right now is irrelevant. Many of us who work in or observe the restaurant industry perceive that this economic slowdown is the worst in decades, and for the small...
First the world, then the United States? That trajectory for quick-service chain Maoz Vegetarian may sound a bit backwards, but company officials say the concept is ready to capitalize on Americans’ strong...
Arestaurateur would have to wake up pretty early to outperform Wingstop chief executive James A. Flynn—seriously early. Flynn, who has led 370-unit Wingstop to 21 consecutive quarters of same-store sales...
Pedro and Juan Luis Salcedo, owners of Juanito Restaurant in Baeza, Spain, have operated the fine-dining institution begun by their parents in 1953 well enough to earn a listing in the guidebook of Jeunes...
For the past four years, Christopher Lee has been touted as a “rising star” by many of the restaurant industry’s informed tastemakers. The executive chef of Gilt at the New York Palace Hotel was named...
INDIANAPOLIS —The Chef’s Academy, an accredited culinary-arts school within Indiana Business College here, plans to introduce next fall a bachelor’s degree program in hospitality and restaurant management...
Ever since Applebee’s merged with IHOP last year, Shannon Johnson, the casual-dining chain’s director of culinary innovation and development, has been extremely busy. A media relations staffer at...
