Whataburger names a president

Feb 07, 2007

CORPUS CHRISTI Texas Whataburger Restaurants LP has promoted Preston Atkinson to president of the 700-unit chain, filling the vacancy that was left by the departure of Tim Taft more than a year ago. Atkinson retains his prior title of chief...

Feb 07, 2007

NEW YORK Members of the New York City Council are looking to temper a measure that would force some foodservice operations to post calorie contents on their menus or menu boards as of July 1. The labeling initiative was approved by the...

Calif. freeze spells cold, hard reality of price hikes

Feb 05, 2007

LOS ANGELES —Restaurant operators across the country are bracing for what may be several more months of recently elevated produce prices linked to record low temperatures in California over several...

Calif. freeze spells cold, hard reality of price hikes

Feb 05, 2007

LOS ANGELES —Restaurant operators across the country are bracing for what may be several more months of recently elevated produce prices linked to record low temperatures in California over several...

Jack Hayes, longtime NRN Southeast bureau chief, dies at 60

Feb 05, 2007

ATLANTA —Jack Hayes, the accomplished poet, humanitarian and business journalist who was Nation’s Restaurant News’ Southeast bureau chief for 19 years, died Jan. 26 after an apparent heart attack at...

Master of wine shines spotlight on Hungary for ’07

Feb 05, 2007

Toronto-based John Szabo, Canada’s only accredited master of wine, has gone on the record suggesting that one Old World wine country to watch in 2007 is Hungary.“Watch out for Kékfrankos, the grape of the future,” Szabo says in his year-end...

Meyer: ‘51-percenters’ have five key emotional skills necessary to provide excellent hospitality

Feb 05, 2007

New York restaurateur Danny Meyer’s recently published book, “Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business,” is said to have become required reading for managers at several restaurant companies.Meyer, who opened his first...

Whole Foods shops for dining business with in-store restaurants

Feb 05, 2007

DULUTH, GA. —Whole Foods Market, along with a new five-restaurant superstore in Virginia, has debuted a 60,000-square-foot outlet in Duluth, Ga., with two food and wine bar restaurants that operators...

Domino’s, Bob Evans sold on using eBay promotions

Feb 05, 2007

That Domino’s Pizza and Bob Evans Restaurants launched product promotions in January is not particularly earth-shaking news, but the fact that both involved the eBay auction website indicates that restaurant chains have found a way to...

Aramark’s Keats keeps an eye toward the future

Feb 05, 2007

Scott Keats is making it his business to create a legacy. The director of culinary development for Philadelphia-based contractor Aramark Corp. says it is his duty, in addition to keeping the company on trend in terms of its food...