January traditionally holds both the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, in Las Vegas, and The “Big Show” from the National Retail Federation, or NRF, in New York. CES focuses on new consumer technologies, while the NRF event is centered on...
Lisa Howard, an 11-year employee of McDonald’s Corp., doesn’t speak Mandarin or Cantonese, but with the encouragement she received through the fast-food chain’s women’s networking group, she packed her bags last October and moved to...
When the buyout bubble burst last year, not all restaurant-related deals were washed away.Instead, the deals—still driven largely by the same private-equity firms behind the shopping spree of recent years—now take into account the limited access...
Tired of the day-to-day grind of running a restaurant and barely breaking even, chef-owner Sharon Deitz of Bees Knees in Morrisville, Vt., was about to call it quits on her five-year-old restaurant when loyal fans of her comfort food decided to...
