CALABASAS HILLS Calif. The Cheesecake Factory Inc. has temporarily stopped the repurchase of its company stock to conserve cash during the “unprecedented crisis in the global financial markets,” according to a regulatory filing Thursday. ...
DALLAS Chili’s Grill & Bar has launched a promotion aimed at getting college football fans to use the chain's food and logo in their tailgating festivities. As part of the 2008 Tailgate Tour, a team from Chili's will stop at 15 college...
MARYVILLE Tenn. Ruby Tuesday Inc. chairman and chief executive Samuel Beall purchased 100,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Tuesday, increasing his holding by more than 10 percent, amid annual lows for the casual-dining operator’s stock...
LOS ANGELES California Pizza Kitchen Inc., which operates or franchises 221 casual-dining restaurants, said this week that all of its full-service restaurants now accept online orders and payment for take-out, curbside and catering business at...
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...
