Kids are lining up to ride the stationary bikes at Richard Ruby’s McDonald’s restaurant in Whittier, Calif. They also are shooting hoops on his mini-basketball court and playing on a “dance pad.” The equipment is part of a new...
Spanish cookery will likely never threaten the primacy of the big three ethnic cuisines: Chinese, Italian and Mexican. There’s been no major wave of supporting immigration, and Spanish-Americans are simply not as numerous as other hyphenates like...
ORLANDO Darden Restaurants Inc. might be shopping soon for a restaurant chain in the 100-unit range, and the company has not ruled out candidates that franchise, according to analyst and press reports on the Red Lobster and Olive Garden parent’s...
NEW YORK The co-owners of the five-unit Heartland Brewery brew-pub chain have sold a 49 percent stake in the company to its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Jon Bloostein, Heartland’s founder, CEO, and leader of the...
Big-name national dinnerhouse chains are not the only players able to land choice locations in new and refurbished regional retail malls. While mall developers have learned that chains like The Cheesecake Factory, P.F. Chang’s China...
Big-name national dinnerhouse chains are not the only players able to land choice locations in new and refurbished regional retail malls. While mall developers have learned that chains like The Cheesecake Factory, P.F. Chang’s China...
When Black Enterprise magazine named Steve Davis one of the “75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America,” it was even before he became chief executive and chairman of Bob Evans Farms Inc., a publicly held company that...
Eager to sift through the blizzard of operating and financial data that swirls about a restaurant chain, some multiunit operators are turning to sophisticated above-store reporting, or ASR, systems for decision-making guidance.ASR is the practice...
