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Dickey's Barbecue launches fast casual concept
May 19, 2008
DALLAS — Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants has introduced a fast-casual concept, scaling down from its traditional 4,500 square-feet, buffet-style restaurants to a…
read nowPanda Express commits $1 million to disaster relief efforts
May 18, 2008
ROSEMEAD, Calif. — Panda Restaurant Group Inc. will donate $1 from the sale of every 3-entrée plate at all Panda Express locations from May 19 to June 1 to…
read nowStarbucks to pay $3 million in expense suit
May 18, 2008
Seattle Times: Starbucks Corp. will pay up to $3 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the company did not reimburse mileage expenses to employees in…
read nowNRA Show: McDonald's CEO talks unity, gets blast from the past
May 18, 2008
Calling the confluence of problems now facing the restaurant industry "a perfect storm," Jim Skinner, CEO of McDonald's, the largest restaurant operation in…
read nowNRA Show: McCain promises tax reform, creation of jobs
May 18, 2008
CHICAGO — Senator John McCain addressed attendees of the National Restaurant Association's 89th annual Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show today in a campaign stop.
read nowNRA Show: 5 products you can't miss
May 17, 2008
CHICAGO — Foodservice players from around the world have gathered in Chicago for the 89th annual National Restaurant Association, Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show…
read nowNRA Show: Hiring Millennials requires openness, immediacy
May 17, 2008
CHICAGO — If you believe the crop of kids born since 1981 are violent, drug-addled sourpusses, you are in for a surprise. So says Todd Woodruff, corporate…
read nowNRA Show: Pasteurized egg sales up 43%
May 17, 2008
CHICAGO – National Pasteurized Eggs (NPE) announced at the National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show yesterday that sales of their…
read nowJamba to close underperforming stores
May 15, 2008
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Smoothie shop Jamba Juice has announced that it is reorganizing its support functions and closing several underperforming stores. The…
read nowPeltz discloses Starbucks stake
May 15, 2008
Marketwatch: Shares of Starbuck's jumped Friday after Nelson Peltz' Trian Partners disclosed in a regulatory filing that it had acquired nearly 900,000 shares…
read nowFreshberry to expand in Tulsa
May 15, 2008
TULSA, Okla. — FreshBerry Frozen Yogurt Café has reached an agreement with Gary and Carol Hasz of Tulsa, Okla., to open at least four FreshBerry stores in the…
read nowCold Stone Creamery launches new smoothie line
May 14, 2008
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Cold Stone Creamery now is offering an expanded better-for-you line of smoothies, available beginning May 15, 2008. Cold Stone Creamery…
read nowOrganic To Go acquires Seattle Café chain
May 14, 2008
SEATTLE — Organic To Go has announced it has acquired a privately-held chain of three Seattle quick-service restaurants from FPO Inc., which includes Mel's…
read nowScooter's Coffeehouse celebrates 10th anniversary
May 14, 2008
OMAHA, Neb. — Coffeehouse chain Scooter's Coffeehouse celebrated its 10th anniversary last weekend by offering free small drinks at the company's 40 stores in…
read nowRaising Cane's signs $30M finance deal
May 13, 2008
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — GE Capital Solutions, Franchise Finance and Baton rouge, La.-based Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers have completed a $29.5 million financing…
read nowQdoba comps increase 2.4%
May 13, 2008
SAN DIEGO — Comparable-store sales at Jack in the Box's Qdoba Mexican Grill brand increased 2.4 percent for the quarter ended March 13, 2008, the company has…
read nowCold Stone president joins Make-A-Wish board
May 13, 2008
PHOENIX — Dan Beem, president of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Cold Stone Creamery, has been selected to join the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America national board of…
read now2008 NRA, Hotel-Motel Show exhibit space sold out
May 13, 2008
CHICAGO — The National Restaurant Association has announced that its 2008 Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show has attracted nearly 2,200 exhibiting companies and that…
read nowPanera CEO, CFO to speak at stockholder meeting
May 13, 2008
ST. LOUIS — Panera Bread Co. has announced that Ron Shaich, chairman and chief executive officer, and Jeff Kip, chief financial officer, will deliver a…
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