CHICAGO Hot Doug's, a quick-service restaurant known for gourmet hog dogs, has received Chicago's first fine for selling foie gras, which the City Council outlawed last year. The Chicago Department of Public Health fined owner Doug Sohn $250 for...
Prairie Grass Cafe co-owners and co-chefs Sarah Stegner and George Bumbaris have made the transition smoothly from the elite fine-dining world they formerly inhabited at the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago on the city’s Magnificent Mile at...
NEW YORK Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a law mandating that restaurants and other local businesses provide free helmets for bicycle delivery workers and make sure they wear them while they are working. The law, which takes effect July 26...
Periodic remodelings are standard practice throughout the industry, but a new wave of building modernizations is among the latest strategies that mature quick-service chains are employing to keep customers from defecting to more cafelike...
WARSAW Yum! Brands and Burger King's franchisee in Poland said it has agreed to open Starbucks units in that country, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The company, the Polish branch of 200-restaurant operator AmRest Holdings, said the deal...
LOUISVILLE Ky. Yum! Brands has granted rights to develop franchises of its KFC brand throughout Brazil to Brazil Fast Food Corp., operator there of the 534-unit Bob's burger chain, the new franchisee said in a statement. Brazil Fast Food...
SAN CLEMENTE Calif. Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurants Inc., operator and franchisor of Forrest Gump-themed dinnerhouses of the same name, has signed a letter of intent to grant franchise rights in the Middle East to Mubarak Al-Hassawi Restaurant...
MIAMI Burger King's largest franchisee in the Middle East, Olayan Financing Co., plans to open the chain's first unit in Egypt through a development agreement with its subsidiary, Hana International Company Ltd. The agreement with Burger...
