PORTLAND Ore. Portland may become the next metropolitan area to adopt a menu-labeling requirement if the Multnomah County Commission approves a mandate proposed there. The commission is scheduled to vote Thursday on a proposal to require...
SACRAMENTO Calif. California became the first state in the nation to ban trans fats from restaurant foods when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill on Friday that outlaws the artery clogger in a multi-year process. As of Jan. 1, 2010...
HUNTINGTON BEACH Calif. Blaming the economy and higher costs, BJ's Restaurants Inc. on Thursday reported a 12-percent drop in net profit for the second quarter ended July 1 to $2.9 million, or 11 cents a share, though revenues rose 16 percent to ...
CALABASAS HILLS Calif. After reporting a 19-percent drop in second-quarter profit and warning of further declines in same-store sales for its two main brands, The Cheesecake Factory Inc. said Thursday that it would try to shake the downturn in...
CALABASAS HILLS Calif. In another high-level executive change at The Cheesecake Factory Inc., Michael Dixon has resigned as senior vice president and chief financial officer after eight years with the casual-dining operator. The company did not...
SCOTTSDALE Ariz. P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc. reported today a second-quarter profit increase of 1.3 percent despite lower-than-expected revenue gains and negative same-store sales at both the P.F. Chang’s China Bistro and Pei Wei Asian Diner...
DALLAS Brinker International Inc. said a California Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that a wage-and-hour lawsuit against the Chili’s Grill & Bar parent could not proceed as a class action because of the court’s interpretation of meal and rest break...
SCOTTSDALE Ariz. P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc. has ended its attempt to develop an Asian concept patterned after the neighborhood grills of Japan, closing its lone Taneko Japanese Tavern here. Spokeswoman Laura Cherry said Chang’s shut...
Yard House, a 19-unit causal-dining restaurant chain based in Irvine, Calif., which sold 70 percent of its stake last fall to private-equity firm TSG Consumer Partners, now is giving all of its restaurant managers and corporate staff a piece of...