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.
At the research and development facility for OSI Restaurant Partners LLC in Tampa, Fla., Tim Gannon chats easily with Pauly Dauterive and Dave Ellis, two senior members of his R&D team. The trio volleys menu ideas for the company’s upcoming 20th...
Richard Melman doesn’t pat the burgers as he did almost four decades ago when he opened R.J. Grunts, an eatery with a ‘70s vibe that’s still popular today. But the founder and chairman of Chicago-based Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Inc. still...
Technology trends watcher and forecaster Daniel Burrus, of Milwaukee-based Burrus Research, is the keynote speaker at FS/TEC 2008 this week at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. He recently spoke...
January traditionally holds both the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, in Las Vegas, and The “Big Show” from the National Retail Federation, or NRF, in New York. CES focuses on new consumer technologies, while the NRF event is centered on...
Lisa Howard, an 11-year employee of McDonald’s Corp., doesn’t speak Mandarin or Cantonese, but with the encouragement she received through the fast-food chain’s women’s networking group, she packed her bags last October and moved to...
When the buyout bubble burst last year, not all restaurant-related deals were washed away.Instead, the deals—still driven largely by the same private-equity firms behind the shopping spree of recent years—now take into account the limited access...
Tired of the day-to-day grind of running a restaurant and barely breaking even, chef-owner Sharon Deitz of Bees Knees in Morrisville, Vt., was about to call it quits on her five-year-old restaurant when loyal fans of her comfort food decided to...
PHOENIX —Restaurant companies seeking ways to lure new customers are turning to limited-time offers more often to pique guests’ interest and to offer variety to returning patrons. While LTOs...
PHOENIX —As the economy continued to hand the foodservice industry a wide range of challenges, restaurant operators and suppliers gathered at the Chain Operators Exchange here Feb. 24-27 sought...
PHOENIX —Innovation remains critical to a restaurant chain’s success, according to panelists at the Chain Operators Exchange 2008 here. “There is no question that innovation is the bedrock of...
