Les Amis D’Escoffier keep fine dining alive at Chicago event
Les Amis D’Escoffier keep fine dining alive at Chicago event
Jun 25, 2007
SCHAUMBURG ILL. —At a recent formal dinner in this Chicago suburb, 99 men and women sat at a huge u-shaped table to enjoy an evening of fine food and wine and each other’s company. The seven-course menu included lobster wrapped...
Sodexho to Team Up with TV’s ‘Too Hot Tamales’
Jun 25, 2007
GAITHERSBURG MD. Sodexho USA has teamed with chef-restaurateurs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken of “Too Hot Tamales” television fame to feature selections from their Border Grill restaurants in Santa Monica, Calif., and Las Vegas at corporate...
Growing theater-restaurant hybrids target dinner-and-a-movie dollars
Growing theater-restaurant hybrids target dinner-and-a-movie dollars
Jun 25, 2007
While recruiting more chain restaurant executives into their operations, high-profile cineplexes are taking a larger slice of the dinner-and-a-movie entertainment dollar by offering first-run films and casual-dining amenities that include in-seat...
Urbana lets fictional proprietor’s design vision take over
Urbana lets fictional proprietor’s design vision take over
Jun 25, 2007
WASHINGTON Urbana, the new Northern Italian and French restaurant in the Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group’s Hotel Palomar here. —A major problem became a source of inspiration for the design team behind Confronted with an...
What’s Hot In: Houston
What’s Hot In: Houston
Jun 25, 2007
Armando’s  2630 Westheimer Road. (713) 520-1738. www.armandoshouston.com . Seats: 80.Cuisine: Mexican.Specialties: queso...
Under the Toque: Karatassos grows company nationally on his own terms
Under the Toque: Karatassos grows company nationally on his own terms
Jun 25, 2007
Pano Karatassos, the founder of multiconcept operator Buckhead Life Restaurant Group, is credited by many both in the industry and outside of it as putting Atlanta on the “culinary map.” The entrepreneur, who is of Greek descent...
McD targets young men with web promo
Jun 22, 2007
OAK BROOK Ill. McDonald's Corp. is targeting young males with an interactive online marketing program called "Burgercon," urging them to "challenge another friend" to eat at McDonald's by e-mailing the webside address www.burgerconitson.com to...
Awesome speed in making that fish taco, dude
Jun 21, 2007
With its beach-scenes mural, thatched palapa and surfboard countertop, Taco Del Mar shouts Baja surf shack. But behind the whimsical, sun-and-fun store décor, the fast-casual Mexican chain is using some rather high-tech cooking equipment to keep...
Kuwaiti co. raises its Krispy Kreme stake again
Jun 21, 2007
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. Just days after revealing an 11.3-percent stake in Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., a Kuwaiti contract company with a controlling interest in a Middle East Krispy Kreme franchise has purchased an additional 71,900 shares in the U.S...
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