CINCINNATI Frisch's Restaurants Inc., operator or franchisor of 118 Frisch's Big Boy restaurants and franchisee of 34 Golden Corral units, recorded a 66.9-percent surge in second-quarter profit, as increased sales and reduced food and payroll...
MIAMI Benihana Inc., operator or franchisor of 96 restaurants, including the 76-unit namesake teppanyaki chain, posted a year-over-year, same-store sales jump of 9.3 percent at corporate units systemwide, which helped boost the company’s fiscal...
CALABASAS HILLS Calif. The Cheesecake Factory Inc. logged a 0.8-percent uptick in year-over-year systemwide same-store sales for its fourth quarter ended Jan. 2, driven mainly by a 7.8-percent gain at secondary concept Grand Lux Café and a 0.4...
MARYVILLE Tenn. Ruby Tuesday Inc., operator or franchisor of 926 namesake casual-dining restaurants, recorded a 4.1-percent drop in second-quarter profit on revenues that rose 14.2 percent to $336.8 million. For the quarter ended Dec. 5...
SACRAMENTO Calif. Restaurateurs in California who employ more than 10 people would be required either to provide health insurance or pay 4 percent of their payroll to a special fund under a proposal aired Monday night by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...
OAK BROOK Ill. Strong breakfast business and a tie-in with this year's Shrek movie helped to raise McDonald's domestic same-store sales for May by 7.4 percent, bucking the industry trend, chain-parent McDonald's Corp. indicated Friday. The...
CHICAGO Baja Fresh Mexican Grill chief executive who joined the 140-unit Potbelly Sandwich Works as president and chief financial officer in April 2005, has left the company. —Bill Moreton, the onetime His...
TAMPA Fla. OSI Restaurant Partners Inc., parent company to Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s Italian Grill and seven additional concepts, recorded a 41.4-percent plunge in profit for its third quarter ended Sept. 30, as charges for impaired assets...