JACKSONVILLE Fla. Khalil Elbanna, a longtime Shoney’s franchisee in Florida and Georgia, is suing Nashville, Tenn.-based Captain D’s Seafood for alleged racial discrimination. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court here Friday, alleges...
MIAMI Burger King Corp. plans to use an emerging form of entertainment as a new marketing medium by inserting its brand into downloadable cell-phone games. The Miami-based company said Friday that it has signed a licensing deal with mobile...
CHICAGO Levy Restaurants has agreed to develop and operate the food and menus for 10 theme restaurants of Schussler Creative Inc., creator and former owner of the Rainforest Cafe and T-Rex concepts, the parties disclosed. Schussler and...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Papa John’s is dropping its franchise fee for a limited time in certain markets, the company’s website said. According to the website, the deal applies to California, Connecticut and New Jersey, along with the designated...
If ever there were a time for restaurants to engage TV viewers with a memorable ad character, this could be it.Nielsen Media Research recently reported that only a third of TV viewers could recall any commercials they saw, based on findings from...
With prodding from litigators, legislators, regulators and the natural-foods arm of the “green” movement, foodservice companies large and small are purging from their foods or from the processes that create them substances considered unnecessary...
Veteran chain operator Sid Feltenstein, who has amassed a fortune by breathing new life into tired restaurant brands, recalls how critics questioned his sanity when he bought the A&W Restaurants chain in 1995.But Feltenstein, a man colleagues...
Now that craft-brewed beer—what we used to call microbrewery beer, until the “micros” that brewed it outgrew the term—has been around for a few decades, beer drinkers have grown accustomed to new flavors in their brews. The hoppy bitterness of an...
For years, the Muslim employees at Gramercy Tavern in New York brought their own food from home to break their fast together during the month of Ramadan. This year, however, the fine-dining restaurant, one of nine concepts operated...
