EAST ST. LOUIS Ill. A federal jury Friday ordered Denny’s Corp. to pay $600,000 to 15 members of a black family who claimed their white server purposely ignored them and uttered racial slurs, the Associated Press reported. Each member of...
SPARTANBURG S.C. Denny’s Corp. said Monday it would cut between 80 and 90 jobs in what it deemed an "operational realignment" that would reduce annual costs by $8 million to $9 million. The reorganization includes Denny’s field management...
OVERLAND PARK KAN. Applebee’s International Inc.’s board of directors chose the lesser of two evils in July when they agreed to allow IHOP Corp. to acquire the 1,950-unit casual-dining chain for $2.3 billion just as turbulent credit markets...
Tim Taft isn’t ashamed to say he’s jobless. He’s thrilled about taking his kids to school in the morning and having private breakfasts with his wife for the first time in years.As the recently resigned chief executive of Pizza Inn, based in The...
LOS ANGELES —For restaurant operators, there’s a lot to love about the sprawling collection of neighborhoods called Los Angeles, the host city for the 2007 Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators conference...
NEW YORK Pinkberry and a compatriot concept from South Korea, Red Mango, snap up locations to sell their unusually tart and pricey specialties in New York City. —Manhattan has become a...
The midweek Fourth of July holiday and the subprime mortgage crisis dealt a blow to guest traffic at casual dinnerhouses in July, but operators still were expected to post better results than they had the year earlier.Estimated same-store sales...
