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MIAMI Burger King and Wendy’s are recasting this summer's battle of the burgers as a heavyweight event, with both adding hefty choices to their menu this month. Burger King said it would promote its Ultimate Double Whopper—two quarter-pound beef...
ORLANDO Fla. With almost half its units shuttered and the rest up for sale, Smokey Bones Barbecue & Grill is continuing to tinker with its menu, perhaps in an attempt to make it more attractive to potential buyers. The Darden Restaurants-owned...
LOS ANGELES The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf regional beverage chain has awarded creative and strategic marketing duties to Omelet, a Los Angeles-based upstart agency, for the rest of this year. Spending was not disclosed. Omelet had been...
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...
