The Financial Roundtable is a group of noted industry members Nation’s Restaurant News has assembled to share their perspectives on economic or business-related questions. The current question:What segment of the restaurant industry is expected to...

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Back in the winter, the Spoetzl Brewery teased the coming arrival of its 101st anniversary beer with a streaming promo piece dubbed entirely in Czech, which gave beer-savvy Web surfers a pretty good idea of what kind of beer brewers at the revered...

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Neither Henry McGovern nor his colleagues would have guessed he’d be running the largest European franchise group in the Yum! Brands Inc. portfolio at age 41, but that’s the way it’s turned out for a man who had neither foodservice experience nor...

For Caribou Coffee, taking the long view in its current rebranding efforts meant embracing its original seize-the-day slogan, “Life is short. Stay awake for it.”The Minneapolis-based coffeehouse chain updated its logo, packaging and signage to...

Most students who attend The Culinary Institute of America and other professional culinary programs want to be chefs. But over the past five years or so, a growing number of students have a new career goal in mind: They want to cook on television...

“Leaves a little bit to be desired.” That’s the verdict that Mike Rotondo remembers most from a fateful run of focus-group testing conducted by Tropical Smoothie Café in early 2008.“We got rave reviews, [for our smoothies]” Rotondo said, but when...

When most of us consider artichokes, what comes to mind are pizza toppings, salad additions and purees—not sandwich accents.Yet the humble artichoke is exactly the ingredient with which Au Bon Pain’s culinary team began engineering its most...