Award-winning chef Thomas Keller, owner of the French Laundry in Napa Valley, Calif., and Per Se in New York, broke in the new demonstration kitchen for the College of Culinary Arts at the Denver campus of Johnson & Wales...
PHOENIX —Innovation remains critical to a restaurant chain’s success, according to panelists at the Chain Operators Exchange 2008 here. “There is no question that innovation is the bedrock of...
TAMPA Fla. Outback Steakhouse is packing newspapers this week with 10 million inserts offering $5 off the casual chain’s current roster of limited-time offers, which range in price from $13.99 to $19.99. The LTOs, which are...
NEW YORK Nation’s Restaurant News was named a winner on Friday of a Jesse H. Neal Business Journalism Award, which is considered to be business-to-business publishing’s equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize. The weekly paper was honored in the category...
ATLANTA Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits will invest $3.5 million this year in new menu and marketing initiatives in hopes of boosting traffic to the 1,905-unit chain, which posted a same-store sales drop of 2.3 percent for 2007. It also will spend an...
INDIANAPOLIS Steak n Shake said it has named a new interim chairman and chief executive and an interim president following a shareholder vote that ousted chairman Alan Gilman. The company named board member Wayne Kelley interim chairman...
AUSTIN Texas The largest franchisee of the 17-unit Mama Fu’s Asian House fast-casual chain has bought the brand for an undisclosed sum from Mama Fu’s Noodle House, a holding of Raving Brands Inc. in Atlanta. Murphy Adams Restaurant Group of...
