Nation’s Restaurant News teams up with Datassential and its Firefly data platform to present a look at the restaurant landscape that tracks the performance of the largest 500 chains.
As Americans become more obsessed with convenience and saving time, many use drive-thrus more regularly and expect their orders to be filled quickly, accurately and with a smile. For their part, operators are stepping up efforts to exceed carborne...
What should be any restaurant owners’ nightmare turned into a surprise marketing strategy for Chop’t founders Tony Shure and Colin McCabe. On the very first day they opened their specialty salad restaurant in Manhattan in January 2001, the...
Jasper’s Restaurant, the upper-end casual-dining sibling to chef Kent Rathbun’s upscale Abacus in Dallas, is building a unit in San Antonio, taking its “gourmet backyard cuisine” to a fourth Texas market since debuting the concept five years ago...
Most of Organic To Go’s founders previously had owned another company together, a vitamin and supplements concern that they sold to an online pharmacy company. That sale process involved a string of boardroom meetings and catered lunches.Perhaps...
Mitchell Dannenberg knows how to savor a lunch at the new Vapiano restaurant in Fort Myers, Fla. Order the fresh pasta crafted from a machine behind the station counter? Check. Chat with the cook while he prepares the dish? Check. Hang out for two...
Jasper’s Restaurant, the upper-end casual-dining sibling to chef Kent Rathbun’s upscale Abacus in Dallas, is building a unit in San Antonio, taking its “gourmet backyard cuisine” to a fourth Texas market since debuting the concept five years ago...
Gruyère, dried cranberries, fried eggs, apricot sauce and ginger-soy glaze are not ingredients you’d usually associate with a hamburger. But then again, this is not your usual burger joint. Which is exactly what founder and chief...
There’s no question that embracing local, seasonal ingredients is a practice and a philosophy widely adopted by chefs and restaurants around the country. But serving organic and/or local food is just one facet of environmentally conscious...
McDonald’s recently rolled out a new fryer that uses about 40 percent less cooking oil and 6 percent less energy than the high-efficiency fryers the chain already uses. Harrah’s Entertainment in Atlantic City, N.J., buys 1.1 million fewer...
So you want your company to be more green. Maybe your customers demand it, maybe you hope it will save money in the long run, maybe you actually would like to try to protect the environment.Not as green as you thinkBut being truly eco-friendly can...
