LOUISVILLE Ky. Yum! Brands Inc., operator and franchisor of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and A&W, said same-store sales for its final quarter this year will be negative across the board, especially with continued weakness in the...
Quick-service chains that have attempted to strike a balance between value offerings and premium menu items likely are positioning themselves for success in the post-recession recovery, experts say.Consumer research has shown that perceptions of...
LOUISVILLE KY. Yum! Brands Inc., based here, fresh from reporting an 18-percent, year-to-year jump in third-quarter profit on the strength of its overseas operations, said the fourth quarter will be particularly hard for its U.S. business as sales...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Yum! Brands Inc., fresh on reporting an 18-percent, year-to-year jump in third-quarter profit on the strength of its overseas operations, said the current fourth quarter will be particularly hard for its U.S. business as sales will...
ATLANTA Church’s Chicken said Monday it has named Anthony M. Lavely its new chief marketing officer. In his new post, Lavely will be responsible for all of the 1,650-unit fast-food chain’s marketing activities as well as menu and product...
Like any event whose life span stretches into five decades, MUFSO has had its fair share of memorable moments.The 1969 event was a controversial one, for example, with black activists taking attendees to task for a lack of minority franchisees...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Sister chain Taco Bell may use the tag line “Think outside the bun,” but KFC actually is putting that philosophy into practice with the test of a new product: the Double Down. The “sandwich” replaces bread with two Original Recipe...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Yum! Brands Inc., the parent of such restaurant brands as KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, together with the Unified Foodservice Purchasing Co-op LLC honored its top suppliers at the annual STAR Awards here. —Yum and...
The KFC restaurant in Fuquay Varina, N.C., recently received a national customer service award from the mystery shopper firm Consumer Research Group. The restaurant is among the 82 owned by Luihn Food, a Morrisville, N.C.-based...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Yum! Brands Inc. said Thursday that a KFC-Taco Bell restaurant in Northampton, Mass., is the company’s first to receive Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, certification. Opened in December 2008, the...
