Category: Restaurant & Foodservice

March 19, 2015

Industry Updates: Restaurant & Foodservice – March 2015

Personnel Updates Bloomin’ Brands Inc. named Gregg Scarlett President of Bonefish Grill. Brinker International, Inc. announced that Thomas J. Edwards Jr. has...

By Loren McCollom

March 13, 2015

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

Part Two: Full Service Restaurants to Fast Casual On our second trip around the foodservice scale, we turn our focus...

By Loren McCollom

February 26, 2015

Company Snapshot: The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated

Address: 26901 Malibu Hills Rd Calabasas Hills, CA  91301-5354 Telephone: 818-871-3000 Websites: www.thecheesecakefactory.com www.grandluxcafe.com www.rocksugarpanasiankitchen.com Total Current Locations: 189 Trade...

By Loren McCollom

February 19, 2015

Industry Updates: Restaurant & Foodservice – February 2015

Personnel Update Barnes & Noble announced Mitchell Klipper, CEO of B&N Retail Group, will retire at the end of the fiscal...

By Loren McCollom

February 12, 2015

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

Part One: QSR to Fast Casual About ten or so years ago on the foodservice scale, the usual dining out...

By Loren McCollom

January 29, 2015

Company Snapshot: Brinker International Inc.

Address: 6820 Lyndon B Johnson Fwy Dallas, TX 75240-6511 United States Telephone: 972-980-9917 Website: www.brinker.com Total Current Locations: 1,634 Trade...

By Loren McCollom

January 22, 2015

Industry Updates: Restaurant & Foodservice – January 2015

Personnel Update Au Bon Pain named Katherine See Corporate Executive Chef, replacing Stefano Cordova, who left to join Starbucks. Bob Evans...

By Loren McCollom

January 15, 2015

Ba-da-da-da-da…We’re Not Lovin’ It

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit.” – W.C. Fields As one of the numerous Millennials...

By Loren McCollom

December 25, 2014

Company Snapshot: Gigi's Cupcakes

Address: 101 Creekstone Blvd Suite 103 Franklin, TN 37064 Telephone: 615-567-6735 Website: www.gigiscupcakesusa.com Total Current Locations: 94 Trading Areas: AL,...

By Loren McCollom

December 18, 2014

Industry Updates: Restaurant & Foodservice – December 2014

Personnel Update Aramark announced CEO Eric Foss will be made Chairman in February 2015. Auberge Resorts Collection named Jason Niederkorn as Executive...

By Loren McCollom

December 11, 2014

For the Dogs

As the Restaurant and Foodservice Editor at Chain Store Guide (CSG), I tend to spend my mornings rummaging through an...

By Loren McCollom

November 26, 2014

Company Snapshot: Doc Popcorn

Doc Popcorn Address: 3200 Carbon Pl Unit 103 Boulder, CO 80301 Telephone: 720-389-6049 Website: www.DocPopcorn.com Total Current Locations: 91 Trading...

By Loren McCollom

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