OAK BROOK Ill. Strong breakfast business and a tie-in with this year's Shrek movie helped to raise McDonald's domestic same-store sales for May by 7.4 percent, bucking the industry trend, chain-parent McDonald's Corp. indicated Friday. The...
LAS VEGAS Spago is credited with helping to launch a culinary revolution here when a branch of the Los Angeles original opened in 1992, and with annual revenue currently estimated at nearly $15 million, the branch remains a lucrative member of the...
SAN MARCOS, CALIF. Chick-fil-A chain entered its fourth decade of business and hailed the debut of its second restaurant here, a launch that also represented continuity for the brand’s founders, the Cathy family. ...
MINNEAPOLIS —Carly Fiorina, the deposed chairwoman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard will be a keynote speaker at the Women’s Foodservice Forum’s 2007 annual Leadership Development Conference to be held April 15-18 in Orlando...
ARLINGTON, VA. —Red, Hot & Blue Restaurants Inc., operator or franchisor here of 33 sit-down barbecue restaurants, has been acquired by Dancing Pigs LLC, a Windermere, Fla.-based investment group...
CHICAGO Baja Fresh Mexican Grill chief executive who joined the 140-unit Potbelly Sandwich Works as president and chief financial officer in April 2005, has left the company. —Bill Moreton, the onetime His...
Metropolitan, a restaurant in Salt Lake City, recently garnered yet another four-diamond rating from the American Automobile Association. The AAA accolade is no small feat considering that Metropolitan is operating without an executive chef. About...
WASHINGTON National Restaurant Association. —Injury rates for the restaurant industry continue to remain below other sectors in the service industry, according to an analysis by the The NRA reviewed recently released 2005 data...
Talk about starting at the very bottom: Michael J. Pivoney’s first job in a restaurant was sweeping the floor at a local hot dog shop. Of course, he was only a sixth-grader at the time and not the least bit interested in attaining a...
