After keeping a tight rein on labor costs during the recession, Landmark Restaurant Group, a 26-unit IHOP franchisee based in Santa Monica, Calif., is beefing up training budgets for its restaurants this year.
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As the deadline approaches for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue its proposed menu-labeling regulations, restaurant operators and trade associations are urging regulators to weigh the complexities of the industry before finalizing...
By White Castle’s estimates, health care reform will erode at least 55 percent of its net income when it goes into effect in 2014. And at Brinker International, officials have put the cost of health care reform to the company at $60 million...
SAN FRANCISCO A San Francisco paper once described the city’s Best-O-Burger as a fast-food restaurant with a slow-food pedigree, much to the delight of proprietor Stephen Weber. “We applied the same amount of time to developing the concept as we...
Restaurant operators not only want to operate socially responsible businesses, but they want to save money while doing it. A growing number are cutting expenses by lowering gas, water and other costs at their stores through environmentally...
As we celebrate 50 years of MUFSO, it would seem easy to assess the kind of progress that has been made in the restaurant industry since then.If nothing else, foodservice is a lot bigger now, with $550 billion in sales in 2008.The January 1959...
AUSTIN TEXAS Carino’s Italian Grill here, had a newfound appreciation for his employer when he discovered how much he was really making. —Tray Mitchell, a managing partner of a Carino’s brand owner, Fired Up Inc., which operates...
More chains are augmenting traditional advertising media by using innovative digital channels to reach particular kinds of core users through new targeted-marketing efforts. Wendy’s International has conducted two digital campaigns to...
