COLUMBUS Ohio Bob Evans Farms Inc., which operates 709 restaurants under two brands, said Wednesday it expects to swing to a loss in its fiscal third quarter on a $75.6 million impairment charge against its casual-dining Mimi’s Café brand. ...
Since the start of the new year, several restaurant companies have begun to change their marketing strategies, with new campaigns or new advertising agencies, to counteract what has been plaguing the industry for more than a year — the...
COLUMBUS Ohio Bob Evans is reaching out to younger diners with an online marketing campaign and a college campus tour centered on its new BOBurrito breakfast item. Bob Evans Farms Inc., the parent to the 570-unit namesake chain, said...
NEW YORK Restaurant operators large and small provided their outlooks for the year ahead -- and most of them were not pretty. At the seventh annual Cowen & Co. consumer investment conference in New York, which took place Monday and Tuesday...
NEW YORK Echoing the crash in the broader market, the NRN Stock Index fell 5.12 percent on Monday, its largest one-day loss in four years, on news the House of Representatives had failed to pass a $700 billion bailout plan that investors hoped...
CARROLLTON TEXAS T.G.I. Friday’s president and chief executive, recalls that people in the industry thought “we were nuts” when the chain began offering smaller portions at lower prices a year ago. ...
For Jim Doak, the key to being successful in research and development is quite simple: Listen to what the guests want. That basic notion is largely what drew him to his current position as executive chef at Prairie du Sac, Wis.-based Culver’s.“The...
There are a lot of ways to describe a 50-year tenure in the industry. For IHOP, the journey can be best measured in the growth from one location to 1,344 units, and annual servings of more than 700 million pancakes, 1.5 million gallons of syrup...
