ATLANTA Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc., the 3,500-unit subsidiary of Triarc Cos. Inc., said Friday that it had signed development agreements during the fourth quarter of 2006 to open 51 Arby’s restaurants throughout North America. A total of 168...
GRAND RAPIDS Mich. Meritage Hospitality Group Inc., operator of about 50 franchised Wendy's quick-service restaurants and five O'Charley's casual-dining units, said Friday it settled a lawsuit filed last year against franchisor O'Charley's Inc...
OVERLAND PARK Kan. Applebee's International Inc. hired George Williams, a former Blockbuster Inc. and ad agency executive, as chief marketing officer to replace John Cywinski, who resigned in May. Williams will be responsible for all of the...
CORPUS CHRISTI Texas Whataburger Restaurants LP has promoted Preston Atkinson to president of the 700-unit chain, filling the vacancy that was left by the departure of Tim Taft more than a year ago. Atkinson retains his prior title of chief...
NEW YORK Members of the New York City Council are looking to temper a measure that would force some foodservice operations to post calorie contents on their menus or menu boards as of July 1. The labeling initiative was approved by the...
LOS ANGELES —Restaurant operators across the country are bracing for what may be several more months of recently elevated produce prices linked to record low temperatures in California over several...
LOS ANGELES —Restaurant operators across the country are bracing for what may be several more months of recently elevated produce prices linked to record low temperatures in California over several...
ATLANTA —Jack Hayes, the accomplished poet, humanitarian and business journalist who was Nation’s Restaurant News’ Southeast bureau chief for 19 years, died Jan. 26 after an apparent heart attack at...
Toronto-based John Szabo, Canada’s only accredited master of wine, has gone on the record suggesting that one Old World wine country to watch in 2007 is Hungary.“Watch out for Kékfrankos, the grape of the future,” Szabo says in his year-end...
New York restaurateur Danny Meyer’s recently published book, “Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business,” is said to have become required reading for managers at several restaurant companies.Meyer, who opened his first...
