LOS ANGELES Full-service operator Grill Concepts Inc. said it has reinforced its infrastructure for an expansion push by hiring a veteran of the Rite Aid drugstore chain as the restaurant company's first vice president of construction and...
As author of “Prost! The Story of German Beer,” as well as two technical books on German beer styles, Horst Dornbusch is intimately familiar with the history, traditions and tastes of German and German-style ales and lagers. Here Dornbusch, who...
TUCSON ARIZ. —Effective employee training not only generates a return on investment, but it reflects a company’s strategy and reinforces its culture, hospitality executives told attendees at the recent semiannual conference here of the...
Charlie Ayers wants to create an “everyday place.”Not that it will be ordinary. Ayers, the former executive chef at Google Inc.’s headquarters, who also cooked for The Grateful Dead, is planning a new concept in Palo Alto, Calif., that he feels...
ATLANTA —The restaurant industry may have to rethink its sick-leave policies because the usual, current procedures pose a significant risk to public health, operators learned during a conference here...
CLEARWATER FLA. —Tampa Bay Supper Club owner Dave Stender says that the question “What’s for dinner?” creates daily frustration in the lives of busy people. Even so, marketing the Supper Club, a meal-assembly concept based here, was...
