EMERYVILLE CALIF. Jamba Juice smoothie shops nationwide have experienced sluggish sales as the company’s stock has fallen into a tail-spin, is pinning turnaround hopes on new breakfast offerings being showcased in a free-smoothie promotion this...

WESTFIELD N.J. —Restaurant companies’ trainers are feeling pinched by the troubled economy as higher energy and commodity prices and reduced consumer spending exert budgetary squeezes on their...

FORT LAUDERDALE Fla. It began with a new take on a popular food. Thinking about starting a business two years ago, Michael Gordon and Vaughan Lazar tossed around the idea of an organic pizza restaurant.  Gordon struck on the idea of...

Lisa Howard, an 11-year employee of McDonald’s Corp., doesn’t speak Mandarin or Cantonese, but with the encouragement she received through the fast-food chain’s women’s networking group, she packed her bags last October and moved to...

With economic storm warnings intensifying, multiconcept casual-dining innovators nationwide are shoring up their holdings but still exploiting opportunities to expand while remaining moderately bullish. Companies known for continually...

Ever since Applebee’s merged with IHOP last year, Shannon Johnson, the casual-dining chain’s director of culinary innovation and development, has been extremely busy. A media relations staffer at Applebee’s headquarters equated...

AVERY ISLAND La. Louisiana has unveiled a $650,000 marketing push for the state’s restaurants and food producers, which are still trying to rebuild their business after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Chuck Morse...

For Edward Brown, who opened eighty one on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in February, the plan for his restaurant was complex in its simplicity. “I wanted to make a restaurant that I wanted to dine in often, that has an umbrella...

DALLAS —With economic factors exerting a growing squeeze on profits as environmentalism grows, construction and design executives in the retail and foodservice industries will need to adopt more energy-efficient and Earth-friendly...