Retailing: Restaurants
Restaurants Battle for Customers
Nov 1, 2008, By Hortense Leon
Restaurants hit particularly hard by the economic slowdown are promoting reduced price menus to drive traffic and reel in struggling consumers. In a similar...
Courting Change
Apr 1, 2008, By Jennifer Popovec
During lunchtime at Westfield Century City, the property's new dining terrace is packed with people. From stay-at-home moms to high-powered executives,...
Green Burgers
Oct 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
The green movement is heating up with fast food restaurants serving up environmentally friendly helpings. Getting caught up in the groundswell surrounding...
A Swiftly Tilting Palate
Oct 1, 2007, By Lauren Shepherd
With the restaurant industry expected to take in record sales this year of $537 billion, food concepts from upscale to casual...
Is Starbucks Running Out of Steam?
Sep 12, 2007
The coffee wars scorch on. Retail wunderkind Starbucks Corp. has come up with a few new tricks in recent months in its attempts to widen the lead it has built over other java sellers at a time when Dunkin' Donuts has its sights set on becoming a national player and upscale upstarts try to erode the chain's marketshare. ...
Seeing Double
May 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
In a bizarre case of a business partnership gone sour, what seems like a fairly unique idea a diner specializing in burgers and cupcakes has resulted in two nearly identical operating businesses in New York City...
Life imitates the comics
Nov 1, 2006
A new chain, Dagwood Sandwich Shoppes LLC, will open its first location at the Coral Landing Shopping Center in Palm Harbor, Fla...
Business CASUAL
Oct 1, 2006, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Lifestyle centers have been a whopping success in no small part due to the popularity of their dining offerings. Today, developers are rushing to build more of these restaurant-heavy properties...
On The Brink?
Nov 1, 2005, By Meg Richards
Chili's Grill & Restaurant is hot. Other Brinker International Inc. chains are not. So what is the No. 2 restaurant company doing to assure growth? Culling...
Roy's Franchisee Triggers Rebirth
Jun 1, 2005, By David Koch
Like one of Roy Roger's famous songs, the franchise that bears his name is back in the saddle again. It's hard work bringing back to life a chain that...
