Spotlighting steak pays off for McCormick & Schmick’s

PORTLAND Ore. An expanded steak program helped to boost second-quarter sales at McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants, officials said Tuesday.

For the quarter ending June 30, McCormick & Schmick’s, based here, reported a 27.6-percent increase in net income to $4.5 million, or 31 cents per share, from $3.5 million, or 24 cents per share, in the second quarter of 2006. Revenues increased 16.8 percent to $89.6 million from $76.8 million the same period a year