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...
Robert Rodriguez, chairman of the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enrichment, often has heard hiring managers and recruiters complain that their recruiting efforts were not as effective as they could have been with Hispanic applicants. In addition to...
Ididn’t invent the hypothetical situation, but let’s just suppose for a second that I did.Put five monkeys in a cage. Inside that cage, hang one banana on a string and place a ladder under it. Keep a garden hose nearby. Soon one of the monkeys...
LOS ANGELES —A jury award exceeding $89 million in a scuffle between two Los Angeles area shopping malls over The Cheese-cake Factory may teach chains a lesson about the high stakes involved in some...
COLUMBUS Ohio Carl Howard has stepped down as president and chief executive of Damon’s Grill parent Damon’s International Inc. after 17 months in the job, citing unspecified personal reasons. But the company said Howard would serve as a consultant...
LEXINGTON KY. —More than a year after private-equity firm Sun Capital Partners bought Fazoli’s from Seed Restaurant Group, the 313-unit chain continues to evolve its Italian quick-service concept in...