As quick-service chains jockey for position in a mature and crowded market-place, more of them are offering nontraditional foods at nontraditional times. While some fast-food operators continue to duke it out for the standard breakfast-lunch...
With childhood obesity reaching what some experts call epidemic proportions, Chartwells School Dining Services has a mission to help schools serve students healthful, balanced meals. Through a comprehensive program...
WASHINGTON —Quick-service chains that target children may come under unprecedented scrutiny this year by the Federal Trade Commission and Congress, which could act to regulate kids-marketing practices if FTC subpoenas for corporate...
Tamy Duplantis thrives on challenge. That’s an attitude that has served her well as vice president of information technology, or IT, at Potbelly Sandwich Works, based in Chicago, which has more than 140 company-owned stores. ...
Most of the time, sugar daddies don’t intend to enrich the targets of their pursuits.But if the sugar daddy is a deep-pocketed developer courting a high-profile restaurateur to open marquee eateries in dazzling new condo, hotel, retail or...
Spinach, in all its leafy-green, nutrition-dense glory, is back.After last fall’s E. coli foodborne-illness scare, which led restaurants nationwide to pull the vegetable from their menus, spinach quickly returned to its significant place in...
Besides serving up slices of pepperoni pizza to customers, CiCi’s Pizza franchisee Bob Wiggins of Atlanta has been offering management and business training to his employees. Eight of the workers have since become franchise owners in...
Who you are is who you attract.People like to work with people who like them and who are like them. Your crew and restaurants ultimately reflect the values, commitment, resolve and personality of the people supervising them—which brings up two...
In the decade-long tradition of the MenuMasters Awards, this year’s winners represent a well-deserving slate of research and development executives, leaders and influential restaurant companies. In the past year, the honorees played crucial roles...
