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EDINA Minn. —Dairy Queen, looking for additional brand exposure, is selling a video game, “DQ Tycoon,” that mimics running one of its quick-service restaurants, chain sources said. Dairy Queen, best known for frozen...
As we celebrate 50 years of MUFSO, it would seem easy to assess the kind of progress that has been made in the restaurant industry since then.If nothing else, foodservice is a lot bigger now, with $550 billion in sales in 2008.The January 1959...
After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last September, the owner and franchisor of the R.J. Gator’s Florida Sea Grill and Bar restaurant chain reportedly staged two auctions last fall in an attempt to sell off five corporate units in...
PLANO Texas —For Raising Cane’s, a media blitz to fill 27 jobs when the quick-service chain relocated its headquarters from Baton Rouge, La., to the Dallas area resulted in a deluge of 10,000...
NEW YORK McDonald’s Corp. senior vice president and chief information officer, will receive a Distinguished Career Achievement award Feb. 6 during the International Foodservice Technology Exposition, or FS/TEC, in Orlando, Fla. ...
ORLANDO Fla. —“Keeping Cool When the Heat is On” will be the theme of the 2009 International Foodservice Technology Exposition here Feb. 4-7, and organizers of FS/TEC’s educational program say its advisory board’s input represents “ICE...
ORLANDO Fla. —Career advice from the chief information officers of two of the world’s largest foodservice organizations and operator insight into successful online ordering technologies are just two...
NEW YORK —Restaurant stocks finished 2008 with some of the weakest performances that industry veterans can recall. The new year, however, has started with a bang, and many point to the sector’s pending upturn once an economic recovery...
John Kunkel has founded and grown new concepts even as the economy was forcing other operators to lick their wounds. He introduced his first restaurant, Taste Bakery Café in South Beach, Fla., after Sept. 11, 2001, a time when many...
ATLANTA Moe’s Southwest Grill chain, is betting that the customized service line he used to build a 390-unit burrito empire is transferable to pizza. —Matt Andrew, cofounder of the fast-casual On New Year’s Day, Andrew and his...
