Perhaps because they toil so far from the limelight, or because of their relatively small numbers, or because they are dismissively labeled as “middle management” by unenlightened investors, foodservice multiunit managers have routinely and...
IRVINE Calif. Taco Bell has added the Extreme Cheese and Beef Quesadilla to its Big Bell Value Menu – the first quesadilla to grace the quick-service chain's value menu. Priced at about $1.29 and available for a limited time, the new item...
CHICAGO Dunkin’ Donuts from a regional chain into a national brand while heading up a 13,000-unit franchise system that includes the Baskin-Robbins and Togo’s brands, won the 2007 Gold Plate Award for excellence and achievement in foodservice. ...
CINCINNATI —A growing number of prominent chefs are linking up with Macy’s Inc. as the department store giant works to reposition itself as a national retail chain and bring some brand-name sizzle to its in-store foodservice outlets...
DALLAS Corner Bakery Cafe, the 98-unit chain concept devised in 1991 by Richard Melman’s Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and formerly owned by Brinker International, is moving more aggressively to challenge segment leader Panera Bread by taking...
Nancy Lam, the ninth of 10 children, came from modest beginnings in Singapore. Today she is a British TV personality with a restaurant run by her daughters and husband and an array of TV credits. She came to England in 1970 and did...
OAK BROOK ILL. McDonald’s Corp. said it is testing a flurry of new products and considering the addition of more fruit and vegetable side dishes as the chain aims to complete its U.S. purge of artificial trans fats within a year. ...
MENOMONEE FALLS Wis. Cousins Subs Systems Inc. is expanding its presence in Indiana, Arizona and Wisconsin with the signing of three area development deals. Don Morello, a Cousins Subs area developer and store owner of nearly 15 years...
CHICAGO A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed three of the five claims that were leveled against McDonald's Corp. in a lawsuit filed last year by a group of consumers who said they or their children had been sickened by gluten or dairy...
