ArdentSpirits.com , a website devoted to cocktail education and appreciation, offers subscriptions to its Weekly Worldwide Bartender Bulletin, which provides a direct link between bartenders and...
Agrowing number of operators are producing short videos for the Internet in an effort to attract the throngs of potential customers surfing the Web for news and entertainment.The videos, which are less expensive to make than traditional...
“There is no present or future,” wrote playwright Eugene O’Neill, “only the past happening over and over again.”O’Neill was speaking of Ireland, but his words could just as easily apply to a foodservice industry that is constantly wrestling with...
With all of the election year talk about illegal-immigration reform, it’s sometimes easy to forget that there are plenty of immigrants living in this country legally, working, raising families and hoping for a piece of the American dream.While...
ATLANTA Shane's Rib Shack will give away a free rack of baby-back ribs to the first 100 customers at each of its more than 80 units on May 17 to kick off its "100 Days of Backyard BBQ" promotion. The chain, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based...
WASHINGTON —Trust and transparency were top-of-mind issues during the Women’s Foodservice Forum’s annual leadership conference, held here earlier this month. This year’s event, at...
ATLANTA Brian Kolodziej, the former vice president of culinary innovations and operations at Metromedia Restaurant Group in Plano, Texas, and a one-time chief of menu development for Brinker International, has been hired as vice president of...
DUBLIN Ohio Wendy’s International Inc. has agreed to be acquired by Arby’s parent Triarc Cos. in a stock swap valued at $2.34 billion, ending a year of speculation about the burger giant’s fate. Triarc, the most visible holding of activist...
DALLAS Brinker International Inc., parent of Chili’s Grill & Bar and other casual-dining chains, swung to a loss of $38.8 million in its March-ended quarter, versus a year-ago profit of $54.6 million, because of charges and losses from its Romano...
