The day I sat down to write this column, I realized that it was—unbelievably—my six-month anniversary as the Southeast bureau chief for Nation’s Restaurant News. When I wrote my first column in June, I said I knew I had a lot to learn about the...
Whether their planned expansion would be slow and steady or revved up, restaurant chains poised for growth are refining their marketing tactics to appeal to customers in new and existing locales.The rapidly growing Buffalo Wings & Rings, a 26-unit...
In the past I’ve written that TV spots I consider particularly awful look as if they’d been created quickly in a basement by a bunch of bored students who wanted to kill time on a rainy Saturday afternoon. I recently watched the winning...
SAN ANTONIO Activist investor and Western Sizzlin Corp. chairman Sardar Biglari has increased to 8.6 percent his funds’ holdings in Steak n Shake Co. ahead of the family-dining operator’s February annual meeting, where Biglari and an associate...
Promotions offering free music downloads are not yet as ubiquitous as coupons and two-for-one deals, but more chains are using them to snag the millions of consumers who can’t seem to unplug MP3 players from their ears.McDonald’s, Burger King...
BRIGHTON Mass. Francis M. “Frank” Barrett, creator of the Ground Round casual-dining concept and a high-level executive of Howard Johnson’s during the family chain’s heyday, died on Nov. 15 at age 79, his family said on Tuesday. Barrett, a...
Question: Do you still write those columns where you make up the questions and answer them because you don’t have enough material on a single topic to flesh out a whole column? Answer: Keep reading and you’ll find out. Q: Why haven’t...
