DALLAS Taco Bueno Restaurants said it granted franchise development rights to three groups for 16 units in Louisiana, a new market for the chain. Dan Perry and Green, Herrington & Howell, Inc., an Arkansas development corporation, plan to...

NEW YORK Yum! Brands U.S. president Emil Brolick issued an apology today for "any inconvenience" that a rat infestation of a Taco Bell-KFC combo unit here may have caused. Earlier in the day, local media reported that holes in the...

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NEW YORK In the largest one-day point decline since late September 2001, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 416 points, or 3.3 percent, to close Tuesday at 12,216.24, and the restaurant sector declined along with it in late afternoon trading...

PORT WASHINGTON N.Y. Quick-service breakfasts and specialty coffees helped to put 4 percent more dollars in restaurant tills during December than the industry collected during the same period of a year earlier, on a 3-percent rise in industrywide...

MANHATTAN BEACH Calif. Brian Tademy has been appointed vice president of marketing and Larry Hohl has been named vice president of operations for smoothie franchising company Robeks Corp. Tademy was previously field marketing director for a...