NEW YORK Nominees were announced Monday for the 2007 James Beard Foundation Awards, to be presented here May 7 in Lincoln Center. Thomas Keller of The French Laundry, Yountville, Calif., and Jean-Georges Vongerichten of Jean Georges, New York, are...
PLANO Texas Bennigan’s Grill & Tavern, the 310-unit casual-dining division of Metromedia Restaurant Group here, will launch a promotion of various fajita items on March 26. The Fajita Nation menu, available through June, will include fajita...
ORLANDO Fla. Darden Restaurants Inc. said today that it was ready for the “next phase of development” for its seven-unit Seasons 52 brand, signaling stepped-up expansion for the all-seasonal-ingredients concept. It also named Stephen Judge, a...
NASHVILLE Tenn. Shoney’s Restaurants has named MATCH Inc. of Atlanta as its agency of record, replacing Cliff Freeman and Partners of New York. Billings were not disclosed, but Dan Dahlen, chief marketing officer of franchisor Shoney’s...
Unconfirmed indicators about sales in the casual-dining sector portray January results as glum, with same-store volumes falling 1.9 percent, versus year-earlier results for that month, when comparable-restaurant volumes rose 5.5 percent over...
Tom Wilscam was 14 when he became a soda jerk, and 25 when he became manager of his first restaurant. It was a small place, not a very busy one, located between Golden and Boulder, Colo. He worked there after graduating from college, making a...
