OVERLAND PARK Kan. Despite a 5.4 percent revenue increase driven by new restaurant acquisitions and increased same-store sales, NPC International Inc., the operator of 873 franchised Pizza Hut units, reported a 97-percent drop in fourth-quarter...
PORT WASHINGTON N.Y. The restaurant industry collected about $27.8 billion in total sales in January, a 2-percent gain from sales in the same month a year earlier, despite logging 1-percent fewer visits from consumers, according to data from...
NATIONAL REPORT As casual-dining chains try to maintain traffic with check-cutting bargains, the major quick-service brands are shifting their emphasis in the opposite direction, striving to boost margins. The Big Three burger chains have all...
It isn’t easy to recreate a 57-year-old brand, but Hamburger Hamlet, the thespian-theme upscale burger chain, is almost ready for its closeup. It has been three years since Andrew Tavakoli bought Hamburger Hamlet for $10 million. At the time, the...
Premium ingredients—including Angus beef, 100-percent-sirloin burgers and steak items—are landing on more quick-service menus as traditional burger chains strive to dissuade customers from defecting to fast-casual competitors. With such...
With dozens of states and the federal government passing minimum-wage increases, Carolyn D. Richmond can look forward to a very busy 2007 as she works to keep her multistate restaurant clients compliant. Richmond is a labor attorney at Seyfarth...
SAN FRANCISCO —Frustrated by government- and voter-mandated increases in labor costs, restaurateurs here are mulling a possible “strike” and a protest march to raise awareness about their plight. ...
MIAMI Burger King Holdings has awarded exclusive development rights for Hong Kong and Macau to a subsidiary of North Asia Strategic Holdings Ltd., a diversified industrial holding company. Its first downtown Hong Kong restaurant is scheduled to...
