COLUMBUS Ohio Damon’s International, the operator or franchisor to 65 Damon’s Grill restaurants, has named Robert Forbes vice president of operations for the casual-dining chain, the company said Tuesday. Forbes’ new role with Damon’s was...

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...

WAYZATA Minn. David Goronkin has resigned from his post as president and chief executive officer at Redstone American Grill, the five-unit upscale casual-dining chain, both he and the company confirmed Monday. The management...

ATLANTA Shane’s Rib Shack, the 85-unit chain based here, will give away a free chicken tenders meal to all customers wearing an “I Voted Today” sticker on Nov. 4, Election Day, the company said Monday. Customers of legal voting age who are...

DALLAS Brinker International Inc. has cut its first quarter and full-year earnings guidance and now expects annual per-share earnings to fall between 15 and 25 percent from a year earlier because of increased operating costs and slowed sales at...

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...

MARYVILLE Tenn. Ruby Tuesday Inc., operator or franchisor to 941 namesake casual-dining restaurants, posted on Wednesday first quarter net income of $250,000, the company’s lowest quarterly profit since at least 1994, when public filings for the...

HOUSTON Landry's Restaurants Inc. said its chairman, president and chief executive, Tilman J. Fertitta, is negotiating to buy the company at a "substantially reduced price" from the $21 per share he offered in June. This marks the second time...

LOS ANGELES California Pizza Kitchen Inc. maintained on Tuesday its profit expectations for the third quarter because of cost controls and a 7.4-percent revenue increase that would help alleviate a larger-than-expected drop in same-store sales. ...

CARROLLTON Texas At T.G.I. Friday’s, membership in its guest recognition program is all that and a bag of chips. Friday's said its Give Me More Stripes program has a new perk: a free snack bag of the chain's branded Cheddar & Bacon Potato...