FLETCHER N.C. An Arby’s franchisee here said it is switching its 33 restaurants to solar-powered hot water heaters. The franchisee, The Winning Team, said the changeover from conventional natural-gas-fueled heaters would save $12,000...
HOUSTON Luby’s Inc. urged its shareholders on Thursday to reject all four board of director nominees from its largest independent shareholder, the 7.1-percent holder Ramius Capital Group LLC. The cafeteria chain asked that shareholders re-elect...
NEW YORK Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is reportedly planning to launch an upscale burger chain. Flay, owner of the high-end Mesa Grill restaurant concept, has so far inked deals to open three Bobby’s Burger Palace units and has five more in...
MIAMI Burger King, which has been the target of protests at its headquarters and restaurants by a farmworkers advocacy group, is refusing to pursue the course taken by several quick-service peers of paying Florida laborers a penny more per pound...
Even as the nation’s credit crunch promises to slow the pace of deal making in the restaurant industry, operators still can anticipate a healthy merger-and-acquisition environment in the year ahead, investment professionals said.Deals will take...
In the past I’ve written that TV spots I consider particularly awful look as if they’d been created quickly in a basement by a bunch of bored students who wanted to kill time on a rainy Saturday afternoon. I recently watched the winning...
Robert Rodriguez, chairman of the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enrichment, often has heard hiring managers and recruiters complain that their recruiting efforts were not as effective as they could have been with Hispanic applicants. In addition to...
Ididn’t invent the hypothetical situation, but let’s just suppose for a second that I did.Put five monkeys in a cage. Inside that cage, hang one banana on a string and place a ladder under it. Keep a garden hose nearby. Soon one of the monkeys...
