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.
LONDON Ontario A Tim Hortons franchisee has reinstated an employee who was fired for giving a free doughnut hole to a restless child. Nicole Lilliman, a single mother of four, was terminated after she was seen giving one of the 16-cent...
HYDE PARK N.Y. The administration and faculty of the Culinary Institute of America are locked in a heated dispute over internal policy issues that has spilled out into the consumer media. Last month the CIA's teachers' union passed a...
BROOMFIELD Colo. Noodles & Company, the fast-casual restaurant chain with more than 170 units in 16 states, has announced plans to re-enter the Texas market through a deal with a franchisee group. Pasta Per Trio, which owns and operates 11...
MIAMI Burger King Corp. said “appropriate disciplinary action will be taken” after it completes an investigation into an executive’s online criticism under assumed names of a farm workers’ advocacy group currently at odds with the chain. ...
ATLANTA Focus Brands Inc. has tapped on-site veteran Paul Damico as president of its Moe's Southwest Grill brand, the multiconcept operator said Tuesday. Focus Brands president and chief executive Steve Romaniello has been serving as Moe's...
IRVINE CALIF. —Seeking growth in a tough economy, the owner of the nation’s largest hot dog restaurant brand has launched two new prototype Wienerschnitzel stores and this month is relaunching that concept’s co-brand, Tastee-Freez, as...
SCOTTSDALE ARIZ. —Wincing from conditions in their own industry, restaurateurs attending the Restaurant Leadership Conference learned the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, be it...
Frustrated with federal foot-dragging on immigrant-worker issues, lawmakers in Arizona and Colorado are considering measures to create state guest-worker programs as foodservice constituents, and operators in neighboring states, face labor...
Like grains of simmering rice, the popularity of Asian food in the United States has expanded dramatically in recent years. Ironically, however, independent Asian restaurants have not been the beneficiaries, officials of The NPD Group say. Instead...
