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CHICAGO Health authorities have traced a widespread salmonella poisoning during the Taste of Chicago restaurant festival here to three food handlers who were hired to staff the booth of a local restaurant called Pars Cove. The three have...
SEATAC WASH. Skippers Seafood ‘n’ Chowder House chain have closed since its franchisor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December, including 22 shuttered in late June and early July by Skippers Inc., based here. ...
“Green is the new black,” declares the website of FreeFoods NYC, an all-organic, prepared-foods café slated to open later this summer in New York. The brainchild of chef Matthew Kenney, FreeFoods NYC will offer smoothies, salads, soups...
Patti DiVita is an unlikely movie producer. The Lake Geneva, Wis., resident had spent much of her adult life waiting tables, much of it in the mountain community of Summit County in Colorado. She would probably still be a server if she hadn’t...
Advancing from crew member to corporate executive or franchisee is a common career path at McDonald’s Corp. Twenty out of 50 of McDonald’s senior officials started out in the restaurants, as did 1,200 owner-operators and some 67...
“Green is the new black,” declares the website of FreeFoods NYC, an all-organic, prepared-foods café slated to open later this summer in New York. The brainchild of chef Matthew Kenney, FreeFoods NYC will offer smoothies, salads, soups...
CHICAGO Potbelly Sandwich Works, presumably including investor and notably growth-wary Starbucks Corp. chairman Howard Schultz, are watching Potbelly’s use of mom-and-pop methods closely as it executes a 20-percent expansion push this year. ...
SAN FRANCISCO —The outlook for second-quarter financial results, which are expected to begin flooding in this week and next from the restaurant industry’s largest public companies, is not good, according to industry observers. ...
CHICAGO A salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 126 attendees to the Taste of Chicago food festival and hospitalized 10 of them so far has been linked to Pars Cove restaurant, which had a booth at the annual outdoor event. ...
SEATTLE Starbucks, the 13,500-unit coffeehouse chain based here that has more than 145,000 employees, has agreed to outsource certain human resource functions, including payroll, to a Cincinnati-based human resources firm. Convergys Corp...
