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Delia Champion, founder of Atlanta’s popular Flying Biscuit Cafe, was stunned to hear her name called out during the Stevie Awards for Women in Business ceremony at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas last month. The international awards had...
When Eben Freeman says he’s smoking Coke, he’s not talking about recreational drug use. The beverage director of Tailor, an avant-garde restaurant in New York City, actually pours the soft-drink syrup into a shallow pan and places it...
ANN ARBOR MICH. Domino’s Pizza customers can place orders by sending text messages from their Web-enabled cell phones is giving the chain’s new online ordering capability a mid-single-digit percentage boost in volume, sources at the chain indicate...
FLETCHER N.C. An Arby’s franchisee here said it is switching its 33 restaurants to solar-powered hot water heaters. The franchisee, The Winning Team, said the changeover from conventional natural-gas-fueled heaters would save $12,000...
HOUSTON Luby’s Inc. urged its shareholders on Thursday to reject all four board of director nominees from its largest independent shareholder, the 7.1-percent holder Ramius Capital Group LLC. The cafeteria chain asked that shareholders re-elect...
NEW YORK Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is reportedly planning to launch an upscale burger chain. Flay, owner of the high-end Mesa Grill restaurant concept, has so far inked deals to open three Bobby’s Burger Palace units and has five more in...
MIAMI Burger King, which has been the target of protests at its headquarters and restaurants by a farmworkers advocacy group, is refusing to pursue the course taken by several quick-service peers of paying Florida laborers a penny more per pound...
Even as the nation’s credit crunch promises to slow the pace of deal making in the restaurant industry, operators still can anticipate a healthy merger-and-acquisition environment in the year ahead, investment professionals said.Deals will take...
In the past I’ve written that TV spots I consider particularly awful look as if they’d been created quickly in a basement by a bunch of bored students who wanted to kill time on a rainy Saturday afternoon. I recently watched the winning...