uWink plans for move into Canada
Jun 25, 2007
LOS ANGELES Operators of the uWink food-and-entertainment concept based here are planning a move into Canada. uWink Inc. said it has formed a separate entity called uWink Canada to develop the concept in partnership with experienced...
Class-action status denied in credit card ID theft suits
Class-action status denied in credit card ID theft suits
Jun 25, 2007
LOS ANGELES —Two federal judges here have denied class-action status in four lawsuits arguing that restaurant companies exposed their customers to identity theft when they allegedly illegally printed credit card numbers or expiration...
Activist groups prefer sound bites over sense when plugging ‘solutions’
Activist groups prefer sound bites over sense when plugging ‘solutions’
Jun 25, 2007
There’s an old joke about a drunk who’s frantically looking for his car keys under a streetlight. A passerby notices the scene and asks him where he thinks he dropped them. The drunk points to a nearby parking lot.Stunned, the stranger asks him...
McD targets young men with web promo
Jun 22, 2007
OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald's Corp. is targeting young males with an interactive online marketing program called "Burgercon," urging them to "challenge another friend" to eat at McDonald's by e-mailing the webside address www.burgerconitson.com to...
Puck opens an Asian restaurant
Jun 22, 2007
LOS ANGELES Wolfgang Puck has opened an Asian restaurant, Red Seven, in the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. Operated by Puck's catering division here, Red Seven is the second venue to open in the interior design complex...
Wendy's expands breakfast test to 235 stores
Wendy's expands breakfast test to 235 stores
Jun 22, 2007
DUBLIN Ohio Wendy's International is expanding its breakfast test by 75 restaurants, to a total of 235, on its way to reaching 650 test stores by the end of August and 30 percent of its North American system by the end of December. The...
Judge OKs class action vs. Applebee’s over server pay
Jun 22, 2007
KANSAS CITY Mo. A federal judge here has conditionally certified as a class action an Applebee’s International Inc. employee’s lawsuit that alleges the chain required tipped workers to spend more than 20 percent of their time on nontipped work...
Rare Hospitality completes Bugaboo chain spinoff
Jun 22, 2007
ATLANTA LongHorn Steakhouse and Capital Grille parent Rare Hospitality International Inc. has completed the previously announced sale of its Bugaboo Creek Steak House concept to Charlie Brown's Acquisition Corp., a steakhouse group owned by the...
Family-dining pioneer Bob Evans dies at 89
Jun 22, 2007
COLUMBUS Ohio Family-dining chain and food company namesake Bob Evans died here Thursday of complications of a stroke he suffered in February, according to Columbus-based Bob Evans Farms Inc. He was 89, and was at the Cleveland Clinic recovering...
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