The belief that smaller is better is enjoying a spirited revival among several restaurant chains that have substantially reduced the size of their prototype buildings without diminishing—and in some cases while...
Given the possibility of recession as well as falling property values because of the subprime-mortgage crisis, operators are reassessing their real estate strategies to get the biggest bang for their buck.For some...
Growing up on a farm in Abbott, Texas, country music super-star Willie Nelson didn’t know how fulfilling the taste of fresh, naturally produced vegetables was until he became a traveling balladeer.“We had organic food...
Popular Italian restaurant and pizzeria Franny’s, in New York City’s rebounding Brooklyn borough, voluntarily pays more for its electricity and gas to support utility companies’ development of renewable energy through...
Fred Stow has an eye-opening statistic that is helping to make his third-party meal delivery company very successful, and he hopes it will grab the attention of the entire restaurant industry: Large drug companies...
When New York’s B.R. Guest Restaurants. trumpeted the fact this June that it had become the first multiconcept restaurant company to earn third-party “green” certifications, corporate chef Chris Giarraputo...
Several times throughout the Bible, God and various disciples implore the faithful to chill out one day of the week and worship the Creator. But only one restaurant chain has made the Fourth Commandment an operational...
With the Bush administration wielding its clout to seize business records, tap phone calls and eavesdrop on average citizens—all without warrants—restaurant employers are everything from furious to confused to tight...
Restaurant operators are losing ground in their long, steady campaign to secure real immigration reform. There are a lot of reasons why immigration reform has been blown off course: grandstanding presidential...
Charlie Ayers wants to create an “everyday place.”Not that it will be ordinary. Ayers, the former executive chef at Google Inc.’s headquarters, who also cooked for The Grateful Dead, is planning a new concept in Palo...