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BEVERLY HILLS Calif. Innovative Dining Group will open the first of what it hopes to be a chain of midscale sushi restaurants here late this year. The Los Angeles-based company currently operates four Sushi Roku restaurants...
SAN DIEGO Jack in the Box has introduced the Chocolate Overload Cake, a Bundt-style dessert featuring dark European and double-Dutch cocoa mixed with chocolate chips and drizzled with chocolate butter cream frosting. At a price of $1.69...
LOS ANGELES Restaurateur, investor and former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan has converted the breakfast-lunch bakery cafe annex beside his landmark Original Pantry Cafe into the ultrahigh-end Riordan’s Tavern, which is slated to open late...
LOS ANGELES Operators of the uWink food-and-entertainment concept based here are planning a move into Canada. uWink Inc. said it has formed a separate entity called uWink Canada to develop the concept in partnership with experienced...
LOS ANGELES —Two federal judges here have denied class-action status in four lawsuits arguing that restaurant companies exposed their customers to identity theft when they allegedly illegally printed credit card numbers or expiration...
There’s an old joke about a drunk who’s frantically looking for his car keys under a streetlight. A passerby notices the scene and asks him where he thinks he dropped them. The drunk points to a nearby parking lot.Stunned, the stranger asks him...
OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald's Corp. is targeting young males with an interactive online marketing program called "Burgercon," urging them to "challenge another friend" to eat at McDonald's by e-mailing the webside address www.burgerconitson.com to...
LOS ANGELES Wolfgang Puck has opened an Asian restaurant, Red Seven, in the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. Operated by Puck's catering division here, Red Seven is the second venue to open in the interior design complex...
DUBLIN Ohio Wendy's International is expanding its breakfast test by 75 restaurants, to a total of 235, on its way to reaching 650 test stores by the end of August and 30 percent of its North American system by the end of December. The...
KANSAS CITY Mo. A federal judge here has conditionally certified as a class action an Applebee’s International Inc. employee’s lawsuit that alleges the chain required tipped workers to spend more than 20 percent of their time on nontipped work...
