WINSTON-SALEM N.C. —The sleeping giant of the snack sector, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, may be waking up from what critics have called a self-inflicted sugar coma spurred on...
PLANO TEXAS Bennigan’s, Ponderosa, Steak & Ale and other chains, is the latest restaurant company looking to restructure its debt after getting hit with the one-two punch of slowed sector sales and skyrocketing...
EMERYVILLE CALIF .—As many quick-service chains rush to add smoothies to their menus in time for summer, Jamba Juice, the 726-unit smoothie-centric chain, is working to...
NEW YORK After a spring of relative calm, the stock market was hammered to it worst close in months by surging oil prices and the government’s report of the highest monthly unemployment growth in 22 years. And it...
Restaurants hoping to garner even a slice of summer spending sparked by federal stimulus checks—and the subsequent lift to corporate profits—must offer consumers compelling value and low prices, both operators and...
SAN DIEGO —As the stalling economy begins to affect even the previously resistant quick-service segment, a growing number of fast feeders are turning to high-margin...
While soaring commodity costs are wreaking havoc on many restaurant companies, the hyperinflation of wheat has severely affected the restaurant-level margins—and the parent company’s earnings—at bakery...
Glori Ann Byrd, a married mother of two, has completely re-evaluated the way her family spends money in a slumping economy. In so doing, she and countless other Americans like her are provoking survival-minded...
DENVER Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. —An operating environment made difficult by the dual blows of surging costs and fewer customers forced many companies to report...
NEW YORK —Investors looking to purchase restaurant stocks at their lowest points and ahead of an upswing projected by year’s end could prop up industry stock prices in...
