Patti DiVita is an unlikely movie producer. The Lake Geneva, Wis., resident had spent much of her adult life waiting tables, much of it in the mountain community of Summit County in Colorado. She would probably still be a server if she hadn’t...

Advancing from crew member to corporate executive or franchisee is a common career path at McDonald’s Corp. Twenty out of 50 of McDonald’s senior officials started out in the restaurants, as did 1,200 owner-operators and some 67...

“Green is the new black,” declares the website of FreeFoods NYC, an all-organic, prepared-foods café slated to open later this summer in New York. The brainchild of chef Matthew Kenney, FreeFoods NYC will offer smoothies, salads, soups...

CHICAGO Potbelly Sandwich Works, presumably including investor and notably growth-wary Starbucks Corp. chairman Howard Schultz, are watching Potbelly’s use of mom-and-pop methods closely as it executes a 20-percent expansion push this year. ...