DALLAS Chili’s Grill & Bar has named Interpublic Group’s Hill Holliday of Boston as its agency of record. The account is valued at more than $100 million. The agency replaces Omnicom Group’s GSD&M of Austin, Texas, which had held the...

BURNSIDE Ky. Residents here voted Tuesday to keep a law permitting alcohol sales in restaurants, an apparent blow to anti-alcohol forces that had hoped a vote to repeal the law would encourage similar action throughout Kentucky. The vote...

HOUSTON The Schiller Del Grande Restaurant Group has brought the 18-unit Cafe Express fast-casual chain back under its umbrella, which also includes the fine-dining Cafe Annie, the casual Taco Milagro and a growing number of other concepts. ...

NEW YORK Nick Valenti and Joachim Splichal of Patina Restaurant Group, together with the private-equity firm Bunker Hill Capital, on Tuesday completed their $94.7 million acquisition of the Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group, the fine-dining...

MIAMI Burger King Holdings Inc. said Wednesday that it would use the “strong and consistent cash flow” expected this fiscal year to fund share repurchases, debt repayment and a shareholder dividend. The parent of the No. 2 burger brand...

WILBRAHAM Mass. Shareholders in Friendly Ice Cream Corp., the operator or franchisor of 515 Friendly’s family-dining restaurants, approved on Wednesday a buyout of the company by Sun Capital Partners Inc. affiliate Freeze Operations Inc. in a deal...

DENVER John Hickenlooper, who cited his restaurant experience during his successful campaign to become mayor of Denver in 2003, has exited the business by selling his 40-percent interest in seven local restaurants. The sale last week of...

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