CARROLLTON Texas T.G.I. Friday's 582-unit domestic operation earlier this month unveiled a 10-item menu with reduced portion sizes and reduced prices for both lunch and dinner. "It's a separate page in the menu," said Richard Snead...
Periodic remodelings are standard practice throughout the industry, but a new wave of building modernizations is among the latest strategies that mature quick-service chains are employing to keep customers from defecting to more cafelike...
SEATTLE After turning its coffee outlets into a major music sales channel, Starbucks is launching its own recording label. The venture, Hear Music, will develop artists and records to sell not only in Starbucks' 13,000 stores but through...
CANTON Mass. Dunkin' Donuts has hired popular talk-show host and Food Network star Rachael Ray to appear in advertising and work with the chain's culinary team in developing so-called "better for you" menu items. By choosing Ray, who also...
WARSAW Yum! Brands and Burger King's franchisee in Poland said it has agreed to open Starbucks units in that country, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The company, the Polish branch of 200-restaurant operator AmRest Holdings, said the deal...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Yum! Brands has granted rights to develop franchises of its KFC brand throughout Brazil to Brazil Fast Food Corp., operator there of the 534-unit Bob's burger chain, the new franchisee said in a statement. Brazil Fast Food...
