Fans are legion for traditional crab cakes, steamed crab legs and crabmeat salads. Yet some casual restaurant operators can't resist fiddling with the sweet-tasting crustacean. They tempt novelty seekers with such culinary tricks as dunking crab...
EMERYVILLE Calif. Jamba Juice plans to test a breakfast menu of hot stuffed-pocket sandwiches and "chunky smoothies," or meals-in-a-cup that have to be eaten with a spoon. The hot items will require new equipment that could also be used to...
DENVER Qdoba Mexican Grill is adding a Chicken Mango Salad, available with either regular or light sour cream. The selection consists of the chain's adobo chicken and shredded romaine lettuce, dressed with mango salsa, cheese, sour cream...
Restaurant chains, often with sizeable franchisee bases, are reducing expenditures tied to printing and shipping menus and marketing materials by leveraging the Internet and Web-applications-based printing management systems. In...
SCOTTSDALE ARIZ. —The summer forecast is out, and the ice cream segment is expected to be hot. Cold Stone Creamery is raising the competitive temperature with the launch of its first national integrated campaign since the chain...
CHICAGO National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show. —More than 350 restaurant operators toasted, and sampled, their peers’ creativity at this year’s MenuMasters awards ceremony at the Drake Hotel here during...
MEMPHIS TENN. —Lenny’s Sub Shop recently named Impact Marketing its agency of record to provide branding support as the chain moves ahead with expansion plans. The Memphis-based agency specializes in branding through...
OAK BROOK ILL. McDonald’s Corp., Marcia Vargas’ career seemed to be in a holding pattern. —After 13 years with She had started out in human resources with the fast-food chain in Portland, Ore...
Just when it seemed as if the near-term promise of benefits for restaurateurs from radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags was starting to smell fishy, Seattle-based Blue C Sushi began using the technology to assure product...
