It’s not easy for a restaurant to get noticed on Chicago’s Halsted Street on the Near North Side, considering the competition. But Boka, a four-year-old “progressive American” white-tablecloth restaurant, seems to have found its niche...
PHILADELPHIA —Casual-dining chains that have highly engaged customers also have engaged employees and financially outperform competitors that fail to make emotional connections with customers...
MADISON HEIGHTS MICH. Hungry Howie’s Pizza is preparing to launch TV spots in new markets and considering nontraditional media for the first time as its competitors continue to ramp up new strategic efforts to reach consumers. ...
Delia Champion, founder of Atlanta’s popular Flying Biscuit Cafe, was stunned to hear her name called out during the Stevie Awards for Women in Business ceremony at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas last month. The international awards had...
When Eben Freeman says he’s smoking Coke, he’s not talking about recreational drug use. The beverage director of Tailor, an avant-garde restaurant in New York City, actually pours the soft-drink syrup into a shallow pan and places it...
ANN ARBOR MICH. Domino’s Pizza customers can place orders by sending text messages from their Web-enabled cell phones is giving the chain’s new online ordering capability a mid-single-digit percentage boost in volume, sources at the chain indicate...
FLETCHER N.C. An Arby’s franchisee here said it is switching its 33 restaurants to solar-powered hot water heaters. The franchisee, The Winning Team, said the changeover from conventional natural-gas-fueled heaters would save $12,000...
HOUSTON Luby’s Inc. urged its shareholders on Thursday to reject all four board of director nominees from its largest independent shareholder, the 7.1-percent holder Ramius Capital Group LLC. The cafeteria chain asked that shareholders re-elect...
NEW YORK Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is reportedly planning to launch an upscale burger chain. Flay, owner of the high-end Mesa Grill restaurant concept, has so far inked deals to open three Bobby’s Burger Palace units and has five more in...
