Just when it seemed as if the near-term promise of benefits for restaurateurs from radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags was starting to smell fishy, Seattle-based Blue C Sushi began using the technology to assure product...
CHICAGO —The role of women in the restaurant industry has grown steadily over time, but there still are barriers to full inclusion that must be torn down, said Marilyn Carlson Nelson in a keynote address at the Women’s Foodservice...
THOUSAND OAKS CALIF. Baja Fresh Mexican Grill chain from Wendy’s International, the buyers are expanding their holdings with the purchase from CKE Restaurants of a perennially no-growth chain that helped define the Mexican fast-casual category. ...
CHICAGO National Restaurant Association Restaurant Hotel-Motel Show. —The foodservice industry will suffer more disasters like last year’s contaminations of spinach and lettuce unless...
CHICAGO —Black Americans ages 13 to 39 are considered part of the “hip hop generation,” a group of 45 million consumers with $10 billion in spending power that savvy restaurateurs should be ready to target, according to a new marketing...
Lower-than-expected May same-store sales and concerns that competition and gas prices will worsen before they get better have operators bracing for a summer season that’s not so hot.As disappointing late-spring same-store sales reports rolled in...
CHICAGO National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show, making light of his acting abilities and criticizing the “professionalization of politics” that he said prevents critical problems from being solved. —Actor...
MIAMI —Crime doesn’t pay, and neither does trying to protect your chili sauce. At least that’s what one Wendy’s fast-food restaurant manager learned recently when a drive-thru customer argued with the eatery’s staff...
