OAK BROOK ILL. McDonald’s Corp., in reporting its second-quarter results, said it remains exceedingly bullish on building its international business, despite a rare quarterly loss related to a Latin American...
CHICAGO Alinea, the avant-garde restaurant that has drawn widespread attention since it opened here last year, is uniting to keep up the standards set by chef-partner Grant Achatz as he undergoes treatment for cancer...
CHICAGO —The new owners of Stir Crazy, one of several full-service Asian chains with interactive stir-fry stations that have experienced sluggish growth since debuting...
LOUISVILLE KY. Taco Bell that flattened out blended U.S. results including KFC and Pizza Hut, Yum! Brands Inc. has outlined long-term strategies to boost its flagging domestic business. ...
CHICAGO Potbelly Sandwich Works, presumably including investor and notably growth-wary Starbucks Corp. chairman Howard Schultz, are watching Potbelly’s use of mom-and-pop methods closely as it executes a 20-percent...
It’s fitting that Kentucky’s signature libation, bourbon, figures prominently in the menu at Bourbons Bistro, a contemporary Southern restaurant on one of Louisville’s trendiest thoroughfares. ...
ROSEMONT ILL. —In the face of growing inflation, a sluggish economy and soaring energy costs, the industry’s quest to boost same-store sales has become one of its most daunting challenges, a prominent...
Few seafood favorites bring to mind the taste of the sea as much as mussels, the versatile bivalves that many Americans have come to love as much as Southern Europeans and other seaside dwellers have for centuries...
