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This history of cocktails is a Darwinian tale of how those things that don’t kill you make you stronger, and how the people who work hard to make the craft better are keeping cocktails on menus in increasingly varied venues as consumers seek more...

Despite the well-publicized slips and falls his company has experienced, Shakey’s Pizza operator Chuck Wilburn is glad he chose to remain a franchisee rather than become an independent restaurateur.Franchising, he says, “is the way to go because...

Happy 40th birthday, Red Lobster. The nationwide seafood chain is segueing into middle age as not only the oldest chain of its kind in the country, but also the largest. According to Kim Lopdrup, who is president of what is also the...

America remains a litigious society, with its penchant for lawsuits so far managing to survive every effort at tort reform. In fact, the American tort system costs more than 2 percent of the gross domestic product, more than double the average...

Indulgence never goes out of style, and despite constant reports of macroeconomic pressures causing consumers to be more conservative with their dining dollars, some restaurateurs who deal in decadent dining experiences find that nothing succeeds...

The invention of radio did not kill newspapers, as doomsayers of the time predicted. Nor did television kill movies any more than the Internet killed television.The only thing that happened as each medium became popular was that advertising found...

The invention of radio did not kill newspapers, as doomsayers of the time predicted. Nor did television kill movies any more than the Internet killed television.The only thing that happened as each medium became popular was that advertising found...

International Dairy Queen chief executive Chuck Mooty laughs when asked why, to some observers, half of all Dairy Queens look like they are barely surviving. “That reason is a big part of why we are reinvigorating and becoming...