Diners in Los Angeles and San Francisco are being more careful with their money when dining out, but local restaurateurs have been holding onto customers by offering deals, according to Zagat Survey, which released its 2010 guides for Southern...
CHICAGO Morton’s The Steakhouse, having already learned how to make guests feel at home in its 77 restaurants, wants to make customers’ homes feel like the high-end steakhouse, right down to the USDA Prime steaks and iconic pewter-pig table lamps...
NEW YORK Hit hard by the still-declining economy and other operating challenges, the New York foodservice community is struggling with a hostile business climate that already has overpowered several...
MINNEAPOLIS Granite City Food & Brewery Ltd. said Monday it planned to convert about $15 million of debt owed to DHW Leasing LLC into 28 million shares of the restaurant company’s common stock. The deal, set to close next month, will eliminate a...
SARASOTA Fla. OSI Restaurant Partners has opened Outback Steakhouse units here and in Virginia Beach, Va., that tone down the Aussie theme of the past 21 years and offer a quieter hint of the Land Down Under.OSI, parent to the 970-unit Outback...
SEATTLE Just weeks after three barnacle-encrusted billboards were pulled from the bottom of Puget Sound, restaurant operator Ivar’s Inc. is honoring the promotions spelled out on those possibly decades-old advertisements. The...
DALLAS Nine months after taking the reins at Romano’s Macaroni Grill, chief executive Brad Blum has already left his mark on the casual-dining brand with a revamped menu that emphasizes heightened Italian-Mediterranean flavors, more healthful...
CARROLLTON Texas T.G.I. Friday’s patrons can score some free eats if a punter kicks a football into the Dallas Cowboys' controversial video board during Sunday night's matchup with the New York Giants. The Cowboys' new stadium in...
DALLAS Dave & Buster’s Inc., which has 54 restaurant-entertainment locations, has named Sean Gleason chief marketing officer. He replaces Maria Miller, who has left the company. Gleason most recently was senior vice president of marketing and...
