OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald's, as part of its strategy to appeal to both large and small appetites, is adding a Chipotle BBQ Snack Wrap while expanding a test of its one-third-pound Angus burgers. The quick-service giant said it plans to debut...
CHICAGO Nearly three out of four adults want restaurants to be required by law to post a nutritional analysis of every item listed on their menus or menu boards, according to data released Tuesday by Technomic Inc. In a survey of 2,500...
TV advertising is a mass-marketing tactic that the largest national restaurant chains use to raise brand awareness and boost sales. It’s also a tool that a chain with a handful of units can employ in a small market to achieve the same goal. ...
Pnina L. Peled once faced the difficult choice between pursuing a career in the arts or a career in the kitchen. She had been around the restaurant industry for most of her life, pitching in as a young girl at her father’s cafe in the Flatbush...
I didn’t find out about burger music until a couple of weeks ago, and I have some of the hippest friends who know every obscure genre of music, even if it hasn’t been invented yet. They didn’t know about burger music either.Here’s what it is: The...
IHOP Corp. chairman and chief executive Julia A. Stewart is poised to lead the country’s largest casual-dining brand, Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar, with her company’s pending $2.1 billion purchase of the chain’s Overland Park, Kan.-based...
SEATTLE —Chain restaurants here and in other parts of Washington’s King County will be required to post nutrition information on menus and menu boards beginning Aug. 1, 2008, under a law approved...
With an estimated 44 million workers uninsured nationwide and legislation pending in 31 states to mandate health insurance for all workers, restaurant operators who can figure out now how to offer health benefits to their employees...
To appeal to the sophisticated teens about to flood college campuses nationwide, dining directors need to take the mystery out of mystery meat, put the customer back in customer service and offer students a total dining experience, say officials...
