NRN surveyed over 400 restaurant operators for our latest market leader report. Discover how these industry leaders are leveraging data to shape their strategies and drive success.
SALT LAKE CITY Mrs. Fields Original Cookies Inc. said Tuesday that it has created co-chief executive positions to oversee its namesake cookie and TCBY yogurt brands. Michael Ward, who had been interim chief executive, takes on the CEO...
EMERYVILLE Calif. James White, a former Safeway Inc. branding executive, was named president and chief executive of Jamba Inc., the parent of the 749-unit Jamba Juice chain, effective Dec. 1, officials said Tuesday. White replaces Jamba’s...
Sales have grown 36 percent during the past four years at Baker Bros., and to maintain that pace and keep customer traffic up, the 16-unit fast-casual deli chain is trying something it’s never done: e-mail marketing. Dallas...
ORLANDO Fla. —Red Lobster, in a bid to heat up sales gone cold and spark customer interest, has installed wood-fire grills in all of its 680 units, part of an ongoing plan to boost the chain’s number...
LOS ANGELES —With financial backing harder to come by in today’s tough economy, restaurant deal makers here say the flow of new restaurants may slow to a trickle. For now, however, Los Angeles...
NEW YORK —Restaurants use five times more energy and water than other commercial buildings, so they have a unique responsibility to make good ecological decisions, said a group of restaurateurs...
DALLAS Pizza Patrón, the 82-unit pizza brand aimed at the Latino market, has signed an agreement with Latitude Partners Florida LLC to develop a dozen units in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale areas. Daniel Feldsberg, a spokesman for Latitude...
At 2 a.m. on a Saturday in September in Louisville, Ky., Park Place on Main executive chef Jay Denham was in a farm field wood-smoking a 220-pound hog. The product of a Maysville, Ky., farm, Denham is no stranger to all-night...
TURIN Italy L’Etoile in Madison, Wis. —The key to continuing the momentum of the sustainability movement is through building relationships with younger industry members, said Tory Miller, chef...
