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CULVER CITY CALIF. — A full-service, build-your-own-burger franchise concept from Southern California called The Counter is scheduled to open in Plano, Texas, this week, marking the fourth unit in...
Every summer it’s the same old wedgie. People with interests ranging from snail ballet to endurance Twister can find theme vacations or specialty camps catering to their kind. But for the restaurant executive who wants to focus on canoeing, crafts...
NEW YORK Frozen yogurt is back, and the long lines at Pinkberry, the largest in a new crop of concepts here, are forcing the company to make operational changes to handle the volume. The chain, launched in Los Angeles in 2004, opened its...
CARROLLTON Texas Carlson Restaurants Worldwide Inc., parent of the T.G.I. Friday's and Pick Up Stix chains, has promoted John Neitzel to president and chief operating officer of its international division. Neitzel succeeds Steve King, who...
NEW YORK Shareholders of the publicly held Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group Inc. have agreed to sell the luxury steakhouse brand to a consortium consisting of Patina Restaurant Group principals Nick Valenti and Joachim Splichal and Bunker Hill...
HOUSTON Luby's Inc. has signed a multiyear agreement with Baylor College of Medicine to provide culinary services for the school’s Texas Medical Center campus in Houston. Luby’s, the 128-unit cafeteria chain based here, helped design the...
INDIANAPOLIS Western Sizzlin chairman Sardar Biglari, head of The Lion Fund, which holds a 5.8-percent stake in 490-unit Steak n Shake, is seeking a seat for himself and an associate on the chain’s board of directors, according to a securities...
