CULVER CITY Calif. Sizzler International, parent of the namesake buffet-and-grill brand, has reportedly threatened to sue an alliance that runs lotteries in several states because the group is using the word “sizzler” in the name of a new game. ...
NEW YORK Outlining turnaround plans for the newly acquired Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar brand, executives of IHOP Corp. stressed the opportunities but acknowledged to a roomful of financial analysts that proceeds from the sale of company...
LOS ANGELES California Pizza Kitchen Inc. has slashed its per-share earnings outlook for 2008 by as much as 36 percent, saying continuing macroeconomic challenges are likely to result in negative to flat same-store sales for the year. The gourmet...
HOUSTON Joe's Crab Shack, the 119-unit casual-dining seafood chain based here, has named Matthew Dunn, an understudy of famed chef Stephan Pyles, as its new executive chef and director of culinary. The announcement coincided with the chain’s...
PLANO Texas Bennigan’s Grill & Tavern, the 310-unit division of Metromedia Restaurant Group here, has launched two online marketing initiatives in the ramp-up to St. Patrick’s Day, one of the chain’s busiest days. Bennigan’s...
CINCINNATI Frisch’s Restaurants Inc. reported Tuesday that higher food costs and soft sales, particularly within its Golden Corral buffets, lowered the company’s net earnings for the second quarter ended Dec. 11 by 22.8 percent, to $2.2 million...
HOUSTON Dissident shareholders pressing to put four new directors on the 10-member board of cafeteria operator Luby’s Inc. failed in their proxy battle at the annual shareholders’ meeting here today. Also today, Luby’s board unanimously...
ROSEVILLE MINN. —In an attempt to attract new, younger customers and defend its family-dining territories against encroaching bakery-cafe chains, Denver-based Vicorp Inc. is testing a fast-casual...
After a small group of individual investors bailed out of Arlene Weston’s restaurant venture, the owner of Maroon’s, a Southern and Jamaican restaurant in Manhattan’s Chelsea section, turned to a cash advance firm to stay in business and fund...
BOSTON Legal Sea Foods, based here, is navigating a course into more upmarket waters with the opening of a one-of-a-kind restaurant that will occupy the site of the former Jimmy’s Harborside in South Boston’s evolving Seaport District. ...
