LAKE FOREST CALIF. Johnny Rockets concept foresee a streamlined express variant becoming a keystone to a new phase of rapid growth for the 1940s-malt-shop-style chain of full-service burger specialty restaurants. —The NFL team...

A culinary education program for prison inmates is not only helping Aramark win business at correctional facilities, but also could encourage graduates to pursue foodservice careers upon their release and positively affect recidivism...

Hundreds of members of the School Nutrition Association, or SNA, are set to charge up to Capitol Hill on March 6 during their annual Legislative Action Conference. One initiative they will ask their lawmakers to include in the 2007 Farm Bill is a...

PATERSON N.J. Diners and quick-service restaurants here are girding for a new anti-crime regulation that will require eateries with fewer than 10 tables to close between 12:01 and 5 a.m. The measure, which takes effect March 8, was passed...

NEW YORK Luxury steakhouse operator Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group Inc. has agreed to be purchased by the high-end Patina Restaurant Group LLC for about $79.6 million in cash, or $9.25 per share. The transaction comes about a month after...

ORLANDO FLA. —Hard Rock International, based here, which owns or franchises 123 Hard Rock Cafes as well as several hotel and casinos in 45 countries, recently recognized several employees, franchisees and suppliers at its annual...

For a guy who jokes that one of his favorite sayings is, “It’s not my job!” Douglas Davis had a wide range of work roles before joining Bradley, Ill.-based Monical Pizza Corp., parent of the 57-unit Monical’s Pizza chain offering...

OVERLAND PARK KAN. Applebee’s International Inc. as the casual-dinnerhouse giant, looking to improve its flagging fortunes, this month began studying strategic alternatives that it said could include a sale of the corporation or a large...