FORT MYERS, Fla. Prime Restaurants, a start-up restaurant holding company with plans for aggressive expansion along the Eastern Seaboard, said it is acquiring two unnamed metropolitan New York restaurants with gross revenues of $2 million dollars...
DALLAS Romacorp Inc., parent of the 194-unit Tony Roma’s rib chain, said president and chief executive Marc Buehler was leaving the company just two months after being appointed to those posts. The company said Buehler was leaving to...
NEW YORK Attorneys for the New York State Restaurant Association opened the trade group’s lawsuit against New York City in U.S. District Court here today, arguing that the city’s health department overstepped its authority when it ruled that some...
OAK BROOK Ill. As expected from its pre-release last week, McDonald’s Corp. posted its second-ever quarterly net loss on Tuesday, the result of a one-time charge of $1.6 billion for the sale of 1,600 restaurants and development licenses in Latin...
Part 1 of a two-part series: “Video surveillance in restaurants: Who’s using what technology and why”A desire to keep a tighter rein over day-to-day problems in the front- and back-of-the-house—not all of which are security related—is driving...
CHICAGO —Although beverage sales make up a large chunk of the profit in many foodservice operations, just a small fraction of resources are focused on drink promotions. Recently, a group of drink...
After backpacking through Central and South America for a year, Denise Baron interrupted her trip to visit the United States for her older sister’s wedding in 2004. Afterward, Baron was introduced to Kevin Harron, a friend of her...
