NEEDHAM Mass. Fresh City, a 17-unit fast-casual concept concentrated in New England, has signed an area development deal with Rob Grimes, president and chief executive of Accuvia, the technology consulting, events and publishing firm in Potomac...

NEW YORK Higher menu prices and lowered earnings expectations are in the cards for many restaurant companies, given their experiences in the second quarter and an increasingly challenging business environment. Restaurant stocks followed...

NEW YORK The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, a restaurant-employee advocacy group likened by some to a union, said it will seek dismissal of a lawsuit filed against the organization by eight ex-members who contend they were cheated...

MIAMI Burger King has promoted four top-level executives in what it describes as preparation for meeting aggressive expansion targets for fiscal 2008. Moving up to a senior vice president's post within their respective departments are Mike...

FORT MYERS, Fla. Prime Restaurants, a start-up restaurant holding company with plans for aggressive expansion along the Eastern Seaboard, said it is acquiring two unnamed metropolitan New York restaurants with gross revenues of $2 million dollars...

DALLAS Romacorp Inc., parent of the 194-unit Tony Roma’s rib chain, said president and chief executive Marc Buehler was leaving the company just two months after being appointed to those posts. The company said Buehler was leaving to...