Nation’s Restaurant News Intelligence has published its second annual Technology Market Leader Report. Hear from 550+ restaurant operators on what’s driving their technology investments.
COLUMBUS Ohio Wendy’s said it would close the chain’s prototype restaurant, opened here in 1969 by Dave Thomas because he believed there was a huge opportunity for a quick-service concept serving freshly made hamburgers. Franchisor Wendy’s...
NEW YORK Yum! Brands Inc. has ordered a Taco Bell-KFC combo unit here to close after the "Today" show and other media ran video clips of rats frolicking inside the restaurant. "We will not allow it to be reopened until it has been...
DUBLIN Ohio Wendy’s International said it will add at least 10 new choices, including beverages unavailable at competing brands, to the menu of its namesake chain during 2007 as part of an updated plan to bolster the company’s financial...
DALLAS Pizza Hut Inc. on Wednesday launched a promotion that combines customer-created videos, the YouTube.com video-sharing website and some tongue-in-cheek creativity. To draw attention from YouTube's legions of fans, the 10,600-unit...
LOUISVILLE Ky. KFC is introducing its first-ever systemwide fish item, the 99-cent KFC Fish Snacker, with a potentially controversial publicity ploy that involves a religious plea to the Pope. The new item was unveiled on Ash Wednesday, the...
LOS ANGELES Class-action certification has been granted in a wage-and-hour lawsuit involving potentially 900 former workers for a Papa John’s Pizza franchisee in Los Angeles County. The U.S. District Court for Central California here...
NEW YORK Pershing Square Capital Management LP, the activist hedge fund founded by William Ackman, disclosed Feb. 14 a 1.5-percent stake in McDonald's Corp., leading some to speculate that the investor is gearing up to pressure the largest...
NEW YORK In a rare case of a bankruptcy by a McDonald's franchisee, a seven-unit operator in Brooklyn will give up ownership of the restaurants and leave the system after federal court-supervised bids ranging from $600,000 to $1.6 million were...