OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald’s is urging all of its 13,700 U.S. restaurants to open at 5 a.m. daily to meet customers’ increasingly earlier breakfast times. About 75 percent of the domestic restaurants already open around 5 a.m., according to a...

BOSTON Prolific celebrity chef Todd English is planning to open a Spanish restaurant in October as his first venture in Los Angeles. The place would be called Beso, which means “kiss” in Spanish. A spokesperson described it as “a Spanish...

OLYMPIA Wash. The Washington Restaurant Association said it “is evaluating the legal and discriminatory impacts of the new King County regulations” requiring chain restaurants to post nutritional information on menus and all foodservice...

MADISON, Ga. Avado Brands Inc. has picked Cronin and Co. Inc. of Glastonbury, Conn., as agency of record for its Don Pablo’s and Hops Restaurant and Brewery brands. Billings were not disclosed. The agency will be responsible for developing...

NEW YORK The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, a restaurant-employee advocacy group likened by some to a union, said it will seek dismissal of a lawsuit filed against the organization by eight ex-members who contend they were cheated...

MIAMI Burger King has promoted four top-level executives in what it describes as preparation for meeting aggressive expansion targets for fiscal 2008. Moving up to a senior vice president's post within their respective departments are Mike...

DUBLIN Ohio Wendy’s International Inc. swung to a net profit of $29.2 million for its second quarter ended July 1 from a loss of $29.1 million for the comparable period of a year ago, when Wendy's took a write-down for the sale of the Baja Fresh...