The dinner was an elegant event. Twelve diners, evenly matched by gender and largely strangers to one another, had paid $125 a person to enjoy a five-course meal steeped in patrician privilege.Courses, each paired with wine, included savory broths...
NEW YORK An affiliate of Fortress Investment Group has offered to take over the operations of 127 Ryan’s and Fire Mountain restaurants from Buffets Holdings Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January, a Fortress spokesman...
GLENDALE Calif. Food retail veteran Desmond Hague has been named president of IHOP Restaurants, effective immediately, officials at parent company DineEquity Inc. said on Monday. Hague steps into the role previously held by Julia Stewart...
GLENDALE Calif. AppleGrove Restaurants, the second-largest franchisee of Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar, has been acquired by a Poland-based group that operates more than 270 restaurants in seven countries, officials said Monday. Terms were...
ORLANDO Fla. Darden Restaurants has agreed to pay $700,000 in the preliminary settlement of a wage-related lawsuit filed last year in a California state court by a former Olive Garden server, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and...
WASHINGTON After warning consumers for weeks to forgo eating certain types of raw tomatoes, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave a clean bill of health Thursday to all varieties currently on the market, regardless of their origin. ...
HOUSTON The board of Landry’s Restaurants Inc. is advising shareholders to vote in favor of the $21-a-share buyout offer that was tendered last month by chairman, chief executive and president Tilman J. Fertitta. The recommendation, which was...
CALABASAS HILLS Calif. The Cheesecake Factory Inc. has named veteran marketer Mark Mears to the new position of senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Mears is responsible for all of the company’s branding, including marketing...
TAMPA Fla. Sam Seltzer’s Steakhouses of America Inc. closed three of its nine restaurants last week as part of its recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, said a company spokeswoman. Tammie Atkinson, director of marketing for the regional...
BATON ROUGE La. Clay Dover has been named president and chief marketing officer of the 70-unit Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers here. Dover most recently was president and chief executive of Metromedia Restaurant Group of Plano, Texas, the...
