LAKE FOREST Calif. Del Taco announced the promotion of two executives on Tuesday. Steve Brake has been named vice president, treasurer and controller, and Pete Honer has been named vice president of business insights and planning. ...
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. A 23-year-old North Carolina man who reportedly has multiple aliases and legal troubles is said to be behind the $7.25-per-share buyout offer made Sunday to Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. The Winston-Salem Journal reported...
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. reportedly received on Sunday night a $500 million unsolicited, and some say questionable, buyout offer from a private-equity group. The news sent Krispy Kreme’s stock surging as high as 12 percent on...
NEW YORK 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 non-compliance fine...
SANTA BARBARA CALIF. In-N-Out Burger’s market share and the expansion aims of several other burger brands with formidable pedigrees. —The Habit Burger Grill, a 23-unit chain with a cult...
The nation’s leading pizza chains have always competed on product and price, but the use of new technology as a marketing channel is becoming just as important as the latest meal deal or promotional item.Interactive campaigns, mobile coupons and...
As their aggregate top-line and new-unit growth rates slowed, the nation’s 100 largest foodservice brands nonetheless punched through the $200 billion barrier in U.S. systemwide sales in their latest full fiscal years, only to confront worsening...
Despite consumers’ abiding attraction to indulgent sweets and specialty drinks, the industry’s leading beverage and snack chains are proving not to be immune to economic and competitive pressures.The segment has witnessed changes in leadership...
Feathers have been flying in the quick-service chicken sector as two major brands retool under new ownership, a third adjusts to a change in executive leadership and all struggle to compensate for soaring commodity costs and endlessly spiraling...
