Yard House, a 19-unit causal-dining restaurant chain based in Irvine, Calif., which sold 70 percent of its stake last fall to private-equity firm TSG Consumer Partners, now is giving all of its restaurant managers and corporate staff a piece of...
The “interactive restaurant” concept uWink has gone Hollywood. Literally. After about a year of fine-tuning the prototype unit in Woodland Hills, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, uWink Inc., opened a second location in July in the heart of...
WASHINGTON —When server Anne Lettieri needs to know the weekly schedule for her shifts at The Tombs restaurant here, she checks her e-mail, or she can opt to get the schedule in a text message on her cell phone. If she wants to add a...
The dinner was an elegant event. Twelve diners, evenly matched by gender and largely strangers to one another, had paid $125 a person to enjoy a five-course meal steeped in patrician privilege.Courses, each paired with wine, included savory broths...
The July 1 deadline to eliminate trans fats from all prepared restaurant fare passed without notice at Manhattan’s Blue Water Grill. Executive chef Matt Hughes doesn’t fear getting slapped with a summons—or a $2,000 noncompliance fine...
WASHINGTON —When server Anne Lettieri needs to know the weekly schedule for her shifts at The Tombs restaurant here, she checks her e-mail, or she can opt to get the schedule in a text message on her...
INDIANAPOLIS —Arguably, nothing could damage a franchisor’s reputation more than allegations it had duped franchisees with a bad concept, then took their money and ran. That’s probably so even...
