CHICAGO —In the never-ending search for new customers, many Chicago-based restaurant chains are broadening their reach beyond the city and expanding their brands into neighboring suburbs and across state lines. Prompted by stiff...
Most of the time, sugar daddies don’t intend to enrich the targets of their pursuits.But if the sugar daddy is a deep-pocketed developer courting a high-profile restaurateur to open marquee eateries in dazzling new condo, hotel, retail or...
Besides serving up slices of pepperoni pizza to customers, CiCi’s Pizza franchisee Bob Wiggins of Atlanta has been offering management and business training to his employees. Eight of the workers have since become franchise owners in...
Who you are is who you attract.People like to work with people who like them and who are like them. Your crew and restaurants ultimately reflect the values, commitment, resolve and personality of the people supervising them—which brings up two...
Now you can finally own this little choo-choo and have hours of fun—and if it stimulates your taste buds, well, that’s one of the reasons McDonald’s Corp. entered a licensing partnership with Hawthorne Village to produce this ...
DUBLIN, OHIO Wendy’s International Inc. is reviewing “strategic options,” including a sale of the company. —Less than two months after closing the original Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers unit opened in 1969 by brand founder...
NEW YORK Patina Restaurant Group principals Nick Valenti and Joachim Splichal have teamed up with the private-equity firm Bunker Hill Capital L.P. to offer $90 million, or $11 per share, for steakhouse operator The Smith & Wollensky Restaurant...
PALO ALTO Calif. The 10-year-old Spago branch here is scheduled to close June 1 as part of a shift by Las Vegas-based Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group from direct restaurant ownership to partnerships with hotels, museums and other venues. ...
ORLANDO Fla. While announcing the discontinuation of its Smokey Bones chain, Red Lobster parent Darden Restaurants Inc. quietly cut the size of its Bahama Breeze operation by about a third this weekend, with nine of the chain's 32 units closing...
