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Restaurant Predictions for 2013

Posted Mon, 2012-12-17 11:19 by Marilee Hayes

Some interesting food for thought for the restaurant industry (pun inadvertent) as FastCasual provides its annual list of predictions.

Pay Less for Franchising Companies

Posted Wed, 2011-12-07 21:15 by Mr. Blue MauMau

Mad Money's investment guru and founder of The Street, Jim Cramer, says: "Generally, we pay less for companies that rely on franchises to drive growth because franchising can really limit your upside."

Quiznos Makes Top Five Shrinking Chains

Posted Wed, 2011-08-03 12:35 by Janet Sparks

Although Quiznos made the annual QSR 50 list of top-grossing quick-service restaurants in the country, the Denver-based sub sandwich shop had the largest decrease in total units of any chain named. 

TV Series Winner Closes New Restaurants

Posted Thu, 2011-06-30 03:12 by Marilee Hayes

After just one month in business Jamawn Woods, the "winner" of the NBC TV reality series America's Next Great Restaurant, which launched in March, closed down two of his three brand-new Soul Daddy locations. 

Chipotle Targeted in Illegal Alien Crackdown

Posted Wed, 2011-03-09 08:24 by Marilee Hayes
Chipotle, which has around 1,100 locations in the U.S., all company-owned, is the focus of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigations into the immigration status of the chain's workers. 

Five Food Forecasts for 2011

Posted Sun, 2010-11-21 17:08 by BMM

CHICAGO - One of the foremost food researchers predicts that there is major change in the air for the restaurant industry.