MIAMI Burger King Corp. is promoting its new Oreo Sundae Shake with an online poll that asks consumers to decide whether the product actually is a sundae or a shake. Visitors to www.sundaeorshake.com can vote and enter for...
This is the fourth in a series of seven articles exploring the growth cycles of some of the industry’s hottest concepts. Each story looks at a different facet of the evolution of emerging chains, from conception to financing to expansion into new...
Jamba Juice store managers in Hawaii love the flexibility of their schedules, says Dean McPhail, chief executive and owner of JJC Hawaii LLC, the smoothie chain’s Honolulu-based franchisee. That got McPhail thinking: Wouldn’t the employees in his...
NASHVILLE TENN. —Despite escalating wheat and dairy costs, the four-unit Bread and Company bakery-cafe chain here has eliminated its employee discount for food and now lets workers eat free. ...
Back in the Dark Ages—by that I mean the 1980s—marketers were agog over the potential to expand their range of consumer targeting through the use of that new medium called the facsimile machine.Restaurants could fax promotional offers and their...
LAS VEGAS —Tavern operator Steve Arcana is a believer in trickle-down economics. When tourism is strong and hotel rooms are full along this city’s glittering Strip, visitors tend to tip their...
Times Square may be a lot of things—noisy, crowded, dirty, vibrant and exciting—but it’s never tranquil. So when the former home of a quick-service chicken restaurant in that area became the site of chef Eiji “Taka” Takase’s chic new sushi...
