OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald’s Corp. rolls out radically different packaging worldwide, it joins other restaurant chains that have incorporated stronger food and nutrition messages in their marketing. —As Starting this month in the...
If anyone has found a silver lining in the ongoing restaurant industry slowdown with its twin scourges of rising costs and sluggish traffic, it’s supermarkets, which have seen increased interest in their continually improving prepared foods. In...
Areport on the state of the casual-dining business published late last summer by Cleveland Research Co. paints a gloomy picture of the already battered segment’s immediate future.Citing such challenging fundamentals as extreme margin pressures...
OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald’s dodged the sales slowdown that stung many restaurant chains during October, with the chain citing value as a key reason for its 5.3-percent year-over-year increase in domestic same-store sales. Global comparable...
LOS ANGELES Joining the host of other restaurant chains that have reported terrible October sales trends, California Pizza Kitchen Inc. said Thursday its same-store sales for last month fell 7.3 percent. The casual-dining operator said...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Papa John’s International Inc. said late Tuesday it would ease economic pressures on domestic franchisees by reducing the price of cheese typically charged by the franchisor and exploring ways of providing financial assistance...
Growing numbers of restaurants are dishing up ample helpings of all-you-can-eat promotions to lure consumers whose appetites might be suppressed by the historic gloom and doom emanating from Wall Street and the nation’s housing and jobs markets...
With the bleak economy threatening to dampen holiday shopping and rob restaurants of lucrative customer traffic, operators are waving the value flag over their gift card and loyalty programs in bids to get Grinch-like guests to eat out.Retail...
I’d like to amend the cliché that “everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it” with the following: “Panera Bread Co. is trying its best, though.” It would be fun to write that the chain has installed...
WASHINGTON —Nation’s Restaurant News honored the year’s most creative television and radio commercials with its Restaurant Advertising Awards, presented during the 2008 Multi-Unit Foodservice...
