PITTSBURGH Pizza Hut has a signed a multiyear deal Thursday to become the official pizza of the Pittsburgh Penguins National Hockey League team. The deal gives the chain, a division of Louisville, Ky.-based Yum! Brands Inc., the right to...

IRVINE Calif. Despite higher operating expenses, El Pollo Loco parent EPL Intermediate Inc., based here, reported a 16.7-percent year-to-year jump in second-quarter profit on revenue that rose 5.8 percent to $69.7 million. For the quarter...

WESTBURY N.Y. Five Long Island restaurant operators agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle a labor lawsuit claiming they failed to pay 192 employees for working overtime hours. The settlement, a consent decree stating that the defendants...

PALATINE Ill. A Cook County circuit judge sentenced convicted killer Juan Luna, 33, to life in prison without parole for the murders of seven workers 14 years ago at a Brown’s Chicken and Pasta restaurant in Palatine, Ill., a middle-class suburb...

MINNEAPOLIS Buca Inc. reported on Tuesday a wider second-quarter net loss of $3.2 million, or 16 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $718,000, or 3 cents per share, in the year-earlier quarter, on higher labor costs and restaurant closure...

PORTLAND Ore. An expanded steak program helped to boost second-quarter sales at McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants, officials said Tuesday. For the quarter ending June 30, McCormick & Schmick’s, based here, reported a 27.6-percent...

NEW YORK A slew of restaurant stocks rose Wednesday, with Cosi Inc. shares posting a double-digit gain, on recent analyst reports that have touted restaurant operators’ abilities to control costs and stabilize sales in a difficult macro-economic...

LAKE BUENA VISTA Fla. For the first time in close to a decade, Walt Disney World’s Epcot has revamped its menus in an effort to focus on healthful cooking and interactive dining experiences. A report in the Orlando Sentinel quoted Epcot vice...

NEW YORK NexCen Brands Inc., owner of the MaggieMoo’s and Marble Slab Creamery premium ice cream restaurant brands, said late Tuesday that it had acquired the franchisor assets of the Pretzel Time and Pretzelmaker snack concepts for $29.4 million...