Unable to decide on a career after graduating from college with a business degree, 26-year-old Canadian Sean Aiken started a yearlong trek across North America, doing a different job each week.He maintains a website, ...
SEATTLE Starbucks has taken another step to increase store traffic and build customer loyalty by announcing it will offer a mix of free and paid Wi-Fi access starting this spring. The chain has partnered with AT&T Inc. to offer up to two...
It’s not that maps lie, exactly, it’s just that cartography can’t convey the cultural connections that exist between places on either side of a carefully drawn line. Although modern maps precisely divide Austria from Trentino-Alto Adige, in...
GLENDALE Calif. IHOP has began celebrating its 50th anniversary with the launch of an apparel line that would transform purchasers into walking billboards for the family-dining chain. The apparel is featured on a new website...
ORLANDO Fla. Landry’s Restaurants Inc. and Schussler Creative Inc. and have started construction here of their second dinosaur-themed T-Rex Cafe, following the opening of the new Yak & Yeti Restaurant in Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park. ...
TAMPA Fla. Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc. said it has reorganized its executive management team to better supports its restaurants and franchisees and prepare for growth. Checkers appointed Todd Lindsey senior vice president and chief...
LOS ANGELES —Post-holiday doldrums combined with fears of a possible recession have co-op groups of upscale-restaurant operators nationwide holding their collective breath in hopes that new rounds of...
DURHAM N.C. Chick-fil-A by John White, one of founder S. Truett Cathy’s grandsons. —Four generations of the Cathy family gathered in this college town recently to celebrate the opening of a...
McD’s flat Dec. sales, dip in traffic raise recession fearsOAK BROOK ILL McDonald’s Corp.’s disclosure last week of flat December same-store sales ended its string of positive monthly sales reports and caused Wall Street analysts to warn that the...
