LAKE FOREST Calif. Del Taco has realigned its marketing staff, promoting its head of field marketing and adding a senior-level position. Brian Moriarty has been promoted to senior director of brand marketing and advertising. Moriarty, who...
With sales of video games reaching near-parity with movie box-office revenues, restaurant chains are steadily increasing their brand presence in games as marketers in all industries boost their spending on gaming tie-ins toward a projected $2...
Despite the quagmire in commercial lending making access to credit difficult, financing remains available for qualified foodservice franchisees, say lawyers, franchising experts and Small Business Administration officials.Even given the...
When asked why BJ’s Restaurants Inc. brought on Jerry Deitchle as president and chief executive in 2005, chain founder Paul Motenko doesn’t hesitate. “We thought our company needed discipline and structure,” Motenko says. “We...
When restaurateur Evan Christou helped form a buyers’ cooperative in 1992 for his upstate New York industry peers, he did so to boost profit. Sixteen years later and with food prices at record levels, he’s touting the buying power of Restaurant...
Consumers generally appreciate whimsical, election-theme promotions, but the Daily Grill chain was forced to cancel its new “Cast Your Vote Now” campaign abruptly after hearing from another constituency: the chain’s employees. ...
GLENDALE Calif. DineEquity Inc. downgraded its fiscal 2008 outlook for Applebee's on Thursday while blaming the casual-dining chain's third quarter same-store sales negativity and IHOP's nearly flat results on the "very challenging" economic...
Restaurant financing has slowed to a trickle as lenders re-evaluate loan portfolios amid the financial uncertainty roiling the economy.Most notably, GE Capital Solutions, Franchise Finance, which is the largest lender in the restaurant space in...
After El Pollo Loco was featured in an episode of “The Apprentice” last year, I interviewed president and chief executive Stephen Carley about the topic of product placement. I asked whether product placement was getting out of...
