During the third season of the acclaimed HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the show’s creator, Larry David, and real-life actors Ted Danson and Michael York were portrayed as they struggled to open a trendy, celebrity-owned eatery in Los Angeles...

Seattle restaurateur Tom Douglas went to a local meat purveyor last month to buy chicken and was stunned at the $54 tab for two organically grown birds.“I had no idea what they cost, or I would have never bought them,” he says, “and the people...

Don’t tell Jim Sahene restaurant work is a dead-end job. Once the manager of a lone TCBY store in Little Rock, Ark., he is now chief executive of Bruster’s Real Ice Cream, a Bridgewater, Pa.-based premium ice cream purveyor with more...

With a soaring economy that is helping to create a huge middle class and an enduring friendship with the United States, India is emerging as the new China for American restaurant brands eager to expand in Asia.Given India’s status as the plan-et’s...

Fine-dining restaurateurs are likely to face a challenging new year as the U.S. economy loses steam and operators across all segments step up their efforts to lure spending-conscious consumers already wrestling with skyrocketing energy costs.Even...

SALES FORECASTAs the nation’s economy continues to sputter, restaurateurs in New England say they expect to see sluggish sales growth in 2008, much the same as they did a year ago, and will be happy just to hold their own by implementing such...

SALES FORECASTRestaurant sales in the Midwest are expected to increase by 3.7 percent in 2008, or just 0.1 percent after factoring in menu price inflation, the lowest predicted regional rise.That lackluster outlook can be blamed on several pockets...

SALES FORECAST Aggregate restaurant sales across the West are expected to grow at a slower rate of 4.7 percent in 2008, reaching $78.10 billion, according to the National Restaurant Association’s annual projections. The West would...