New Mexico’s largest restaurant operation is in the business of making friends

While struggling with an activist investor and a challenging economy, Sandra Cochran, who took over Monday as chief executive of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., outlined plans for the family-dining chain’s future...

Franchisors adopting a more involved approach to franchisee financing


In the dramatic stock market fluctuations of the past weeks, economists have been warning that the United States may be heading into a second, more severe recession than the one our nation suffered in December 2007. We business owners and...