CHEVY CHASE MD. —Shopping mall developer Mills Corp., a majority stakeholder in FoodBrand LLC, a food court specialist that operates about 80 mall-based restaurants, may be forced to seek bankruptcy...
SACRAMENTO CALIF. —Fearing the devil in the details, operators of restaurants throughout California are gearing up for a long battle over the universal-health-care reform plan that Gov. Arnold...
Here’s a little secret savvy restaurateurs and commercial real estate brokers keep to themselves: Some of those “closed for remodeling” signs affixed to the front of restaurants are often code for lease, landlord or franchising disputes.Walk or...
WASHINGTON The National Restaurant Association has urged a company expected to advertise during Super Bowl XLI to shelve the commercial if it indeed casts the industry as a hopeless place to work, as previews have suggested. The spot...
WASHINGTON In a likely preview of Tuesday’s State of the Union Address, President Bush aired a proposal during his weekly Saturday radio show to extend health-insurance coverage without burdening restaurateurs or other employers. The...
FAIRFAX Va. The Whole Foods Market grocery-store chain has opened a 65,000-square-foot supermarket here that incorporates five restaurants operated by the retailer, according to local press reports. An executive for the popular natural...
URBANDALE Iowa Maid-Rite Corp., the 70-unit loose-meat sandwich chain based, said Monday that it had granted rights to develop as many as 268 Maid-Rite Sandwich Shoppes in Texas to Houston-based Keystone Investments. Ron Abercrombie...
Rich Levy likes to think of himself as the “head tomato” of Salad Spinners, a three-unit chain he founded in ChicAgo in 2000. Combined, the restaurants generate about $2 million in sales, and Levy plans to open four to six corporate stores this...
DALLAS —The 59-unit Pizza Patrón chain, which targets the Hispanic market in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada and Texas, fueled a firestorm of international media attention and angry anti...
