Industry’s beef with meat recall centers on USDA inability to enforce regulations

Mar 10, 2008

Foodservice industry experts are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to step up its food safety efforts after federal inspection regulations were flouted at a California meat processing plant last month, resulting in the largest beef...

Regional chains outrank national rivals in studies

Mar 03, 2008

Smaller restaurant chains seem to have found the formula for competing successfully against larger, national rivals, who continue to struggle to differentiate themselves from one another, according to two recent brand studies.The highest customer...

List shows hundreds of restaurants received suspect beef

Mar 01, 2008

SACRAMENTO Calif. California state officials have released a list of nearly 3,000 restaurants and businesses that may have received beef that was recalled two weeks ago by the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., but distributors indicated that some of the...

Forget culinology. The hot fine-dining trend could be burgers

Nov 16, 2007

The hamburger is back in vogue, after never having gone out of style. Simple, hearty, comforting and usually affordable, the burger represents classic American fare at its finest. But while many people agree that the iconic sandwich requires...

Industry veterans debut new burger concept in Plano, Texas

Apr 06, 2007

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Chili’s founder Lavine to ‘customize’ a chain

Mar 26, 2007

DALLAS Chili’s Grill & Bar, is growing another restaurant chain, but his initial plan with this one is to defy one of the multiunit field’s basic tenets: standardization. —Larry Lavine, founder of Lavine opened Red’s...

Survey: Consumers name Five Guys favorite burger chain

Oct 06, 2021

Consumers choose smaller, better-burger chains over the largest quick-services players in Market Force Information’s recent survey