Operations

Fine-dining restaurateurs are likely to face a challenging new year as the U.S. economy loses steam and operators across all segments step up their efforts to lure spending-conscious consumers already wrestling with skyrocketing energy costs.Even...

The January 2008 issue of the Spanish-language magazine Siempre Mujer includes a list of the United States’ best Latino chefs. Some of the usual suspects are on there, such as Washington, D.C.-based José Andrés and Douglas Rodriguez in Miami. But...

Restaurant industry insiders expect universal-health-care proposals involving employer mandates to remain a hot topic this year, even after a federal court in late December overturned a San Francisco law requiring businesses to provide insurance...

BOSTON Legal Sea Foods, based here, is navigating a course into more upmarket waters with the opening of a one-of-a-kind restaurant that will occupy the site of the former Jimmy’s Harborside in South Boston’s evolving Seaport District. ...

Fine-dining restaurateurs are likely to face a challenging new year as the U.S. economy loses steam and operators across all segments step up their efforts to lure spending-conscious consumers already wrestling with skyrocketing energy costs.Even...

DALLAS —Pizza Patrón, whose controversial “Pizza por Pesos” promotion is a hit with the chain’s Hispanic customers, has ramped up marketing efforts to strengthen its ties to the Latino community by...

Mitchell Collier and Kam Miceli are taking the green movement on the road. In mid-2007 they launched Green Truck, a company that currently runs two mobile catering trucks offering high-end organic and sustainable fare throughout West Los Angeles...