EMERYVILLE Calif. Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc. said Wednesday it would consider its alternatives after Diedrich Coffee Inc. deemed an all-cash buyout offer from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. to be superior to Peet’s...
As families nationwide gear up for Thanksgiving and the following long weekend, restaurateurs also gear up for such holiday offerings as large catering orders and special menus or deals. Preparing for a slight uptick...
NEW YORK Fitch Ratings, a credit and debt rating firm, expects the restaurant industry’s fortunes to improve late next year, following what it calls the bottoming out of weak industry sales trends currently taking...
As the stalled economy forces chain executives to focus on cost cutting, fine-tuning operations and chasing elusive sales, they are spending less time on matters like executive compensation, benefits and total rewards...
MIAMI Burger King already is seeing positive results from its $1 double cheeseburger promotion introduced in mid-October. —After upping the ante in the value wars...
NEW YORK —Since January restaurant companies have looked forward to the third and fourth quarters as providing a respite from their ongoing sales and profit woes. But so...
Editor’s note: Analyze This is a quarterly look at a publicly traded restaurant company that has sparked discussion, for better or worse, among securities analysts. The comments do not necessarily reflect the views of...
