FOODSERVICE OPERATORS LOOKING BACK AT 2007 MIGHT BE CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT it deserves to be called “The Year of the Heartburn.”Across the foodservice landscape, operators from all segments, including quick service, fast casual, fine dining...
ATLANTA Focus Brands, franchisor of Moe’s Southwest Grill and four other quick-service brands, said it has promoted several executives of its chains to new corporate posts. The company said the realignment would facilitate expansion of the...
ATLANTA Cajun Operating Co., franchisor of the Church’s Chicken quick-service chain, has agreed to purchase 20 Church’s restaurants in Louisiana from beleaguered Baton Rouge, La.-based Wetco Restaurant Group LLC for $10.9 million. The deal...
ATLANTA —In the simplest terms, the co-location here next month of the International Foodservice Technology Exposition and the v’ biennial NAFEM Show creates an all-encompassing educational center...
ATLANTA Church’s Chicken is selling 36 company-operated restaurants in Georgia, Mississippi and Arizona as part of a re-franchising strategy. The strategy calls for selling corporate stores in selected markets to franchisees as...
When consumers aren’t asleep or deciding where to eat, the odds are they’re watching TV, using the Internet, listening to traditional or satellite radio, reading a magazine, or checking their e-mail, because media use is “the biggest single...
Foodservice executives who still believed that taking a swipe at competitors in an ad campaign was a risk-free move were reminded recently of the dangers of making rivals the butt of humor in comparative-marketing efforts. That reminder...
ATLANTA Church’s Chicken Inc., the more than 1,500-unit fried-chicken chain based here. Williams most recently was vice president of human resources for Baja Fresh Mexican Restaurants and Wendy’s International. —Bonita “Bunny”...
Two little words—“in China”—deleted from a franchising law could make a big difference between profits or perils for American restaurant chains that have yet to open in the world’s fastest-growing economy. The recent sigh of...
THE PANELMODERATOR:RICHARD MARTIN, executive editor, Nation’s Restaurant News, New York PARTICIPANTS:LARRY BENSON, vice president of sales, NextChoice, Portsmouth, N.H. KAREN BIRD, vice president of restaurant information...
