BUFFALO N.Y. Delaware North Cos., based here, has created a new group designed to help casinos and other gambling venues develop or revamp their foodservice and lodging operations. —Looking to...
With even vaunted Starbucks Coffee feeling the pinch of consumer stinginess, many restaurant analysts and observers are predicting a less than jolly holiday season for much of the foodservice industry. As the same cost increases...
Like many Bob Evans Restaurants executives, Roger Williams has been with the 579-unit family-dining chain for a long time. His first job there in 1967 was as a restaurant crew member. He moved through several positions en route to...
Nowhere is the momentum to support farm-to-table practices stronger than in corrections. Though many corrections facilities and statewide systems have long managed farms, more effort than ever is being made today to incorporate food grown on the...
SAN ANTONIO Activist investor and Western Sizzlin Corp. chairman Sardar Biglari has increased to 8.6 percent his funds’ holdings in Steak n Shake Co. ahead of the family-dining operator’s February annual meeting, where Biglari and an associate...
Just as wide variety in a menu can attract customers, plenty of employee benefits can give an employer the edge in the competition for talent. With all things being equal between two job offers, an applicant is more likely to choose the employer...
Five years ago chef Charles Phan sold about six orders of whole fish a night, and many were sent back at his Slanted Door restaurant in San Francisco. Now he sells about 23 whole fish an evening, and not one has been sent back in the...
Promotions offering free music downloads are not yet as ubiquitous as coupons and two-for-one deals, but more chains are using them to snag the millions of consumers who can’t seem to unplug MP3 players from their ears.McDonald’s, Burger King...
