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NEW YORK —Wall Street’s woes are weighing on Main Street’s restaurants as access to capital freezes, and anticipated job losses and increased fears could force consumers to further rein in spending...
Behavioral assessment tools helped Bravo! Development Inc., the Columbus, Ohio-based parent of three Italian restaurant brands, save an estimated $5.5 million in hourly and management turnover costs. Now the company is using...
NORCROSS Ga. A franchisee of the 138-unit Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q chain has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closed four of its Atlanta-area stores. Norcross-based Greater Atlanta Bar-B-Q LLC made its bankruptcy filing last Thursday in...
ATLANTA Triarc Cos. Inc.’s long pursuit of Wendy’s International Inc. officially ended today with the consummation of a $2.34 billion stock swap and merger. The deal forms a new publicly traded company called Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc., operator or...
Boudin Bakery didn’t realize how well it would benefit from a fundraiser while also helping the charity involved until the first such event was held, for the opening of a new Boudin SF fast-casual branch in Stockton, Calif.The sourdough-bread...
MILFORD Conn. The Subway sandwich chain said it would replace one regular incandescent light bulb with an energy-saving compact fluorescent bulb in each of its more than 22,000 stores as part of Energy Star’s Change a Light, Change the World...
SCOTTSDALE Ariz. GE Capital Solutions, Franchise Finance, the largest restaurant lender by assets and clients, confirmed Friday it would be “much more selective” and defer rate quotes on new deals as the credit chill that began last year becomes a...
COLUMBUS Ohio G&R Acquisitions Inc. said it has purchased Damon's Grill, the second Columbus, Ohio-based casual-dining brand acquired by the Pittsburgh company in a matter of months. Terms of the purchase from Alliance Development Holdings, a...
MONTEREY Calif. Restaurateurs joined grocers, growers and processors here recently for a download of new research information about how E. coli O157:H7 contaminates leafy greens. The daylong event at the Monterey Plaza Hotel marked the...
