LOS ANGELES Industry veteran Arich Berghammer has been named president of the three-unit Pink Taco casual-dining chain, officials announced Wednesday. Berghammer was previously chief operating officer of SBE Restaurant and Nightlife Group...
Eager to sift through the blizzard of operating and financial data that swirls about a restaurant chain, some multiunit operators are turning to sophisticated above-store reporting, or ASR, systems for decision-making guidance.ASR is the practice...
Able to drive the lane against his teenage grandsons while playing basketball at his Colorado vacation home, the 67-year-old franchisee of three budget steakhouses thought he was in great shape, financially and physically.The restaurateur, whom we...
IRVINE Calif. El Pollo Loco will be featured on the Jan. 28 episode of “The Apprentice: Los Angeles” as the two competing teams create, market and sell their versions of the chain’s popular Pollo Bowl. El Pollo Loco chief executive Steve...
WILBRAHAM Mass. Friendly Ice Cream Corp. named Dunkin’ Donut’s veteran George M. Condos president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 8. He filled the post that was left vacant when John L. Cutter resigned as Friendly CEO in September 2006...
DALLAS The 48-unit Dave & Buster’s Inc. on Monday named Brian Jenkins as chief financial officer. Steve King, chief executive of the company, had been acting CFO after the resignation last year of W.C. Hammett in the wake of the company going...