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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As beverage director for San Francisco-based Mina Group restaurants, Noah Ellis aims to do a whole lot more with his bar program than simply offer guests a choice [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Los ANGELES -- City Council member Jan Perry admits she is not a fan of fast-food restaurants, but she insists she's not trying to shut them down. Perry [...]

Los ANGELES -- For restaurant operators, there's a lot to love about the sprawling collection of neighborhoods called Los Angeles, the host city for the 2007 Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators conference [...]

Each year, Nation's Restaurant News presents in its 'A Day in the Life' special report the daily efforts of individuals making a difference in the restaurant industry. In this year's [...]

Little demographic information is available about who operates all of the nation's more than 183,318 franchised restaurants today, but foodservice chain experts predict that the franchisee of tomorrow will look [...]

LAS VEGAS -- On the Las Vegas Strip, the lineup of celebrity chefs opening increasingly opulent and glamorous restaurants is growing daily. What began when Wolfgang Puck opened a Spago [...]

Every Tuesday night this summer at Pandl's in Bayside, a fine-dining restaurant in Milwaukee, the parking lot is filled with classic cars, such as lovingly restored Corvettes, Austin-Healeys and MGs. [...]

As the $34.5 billion fast-casual segment evolves, some players are carving out a new niche within the space that pushes the boundary closer to casual and fine dining. These players [...]

For many restaurant chains, the challenge is not whether to grow, but where. The cities that might be a successful landing place for one brand may not work at all [...]

This years lineup of the 10 fastest-growing restaurant chains in the Top 100 was dominated by Limited-Service brands, with Jersey Mikes Subs taking the lead with a 21.2-percent increase in [...]

The fast-casual pizza niche is one of the hottest in the industry, with a number of well-funded players racing to capture the best real estate and key markets. It's too [...]

Armed with a Waffle Taco and a few years of Millennial-driven momentum, Taco Bell is taking a bold step into the morning daypart with its national rollout of breakfast March [...]

Grocery, convenience and drug store retailers have long nipped at restaurant sales, but lately those retailers are stepping up their game in an effort to take bigger bites of the [...]

It was an achievement against all odds. Over the past five years, during a crippling economic downturn, the company that is now DineEquity Inc. bought the Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & [...]

Earlier this year, officials with The Cheesecake Factory expressed optimism that the shopping-mall-friendly restaurant chain would soon be accelerating unit growth. Malls are starting to grow again, said David Overton, [...]

Tipping has come under attack in recent months. Since the early days of hospitality, American diners have offered gratuities to servers in restaurants. These days, tips usually reflect from 10 [...]

Fast-casual brands took the top two spots among all Second 100 chains ranked by growth in U.S. systemwide sales in 2012. Dallas-based Dickey's Barbecue Pit catapulted from No. 10 in [...]

As new concepts rush to capture specific niches in the growing fast-casual segment, one frontier remains unclaimed: fast-casual Italian. Sure, pasta and panini players have come and gone, but industry [...]

Over the past few years a hotter-than-hot niche has emerged within the $40 billion pizza space that many are watching with keen interest. Dubbed fast-casual pizza, roughly two-dozen concepts already [...]

After casual-dining sales plummeted earlier this year in the worst three-month performance since 2010, talk among chain operators took a sobering turn. In first-quarter presentations before analysts, executives at many [...]

When Starbucks announced its agreement to acquire the 300-unit Teavana retail tea brand in November for $620 million, the coffeehouse giant's chief executive Howard Schultz pledged to 'do for tea [...]

When Caesars Palace in Las Vegas opened Bacchanal Buffet in September, the goal was to break the mold for buffet concepts. The glittering Las Vegas strip has long been known [...]

Once upon a time, the Second 100 Sandwich segment was dominated by burger players. This year, however, the fastest-growing chains within the Sandwich segment were deli concepts and Mexican grill [...]

The automat is back. No, not the turn-of-the-century version by Horn & Hard-art, a once-popular chain of self-service food vending outlets where guests would drop in a nickel, lift a [...]

The parade of restaurant chains offering licensed retail products is growing. IHOP recently launched frozen breakfasts and a line of syrups, Olive Garden now offers branded salad dressings at Sam's [...]

The need for collaboration and cooperation were among the messages delivered at the 93rd annual National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show in Chicago, as attendees there displayed a generally upbeat [...]

Generation X may not ha+e the sheer numbers of the baby boomers that preceded them or the up-and-coming edginess of those tech-loving Millennials that tail them, but the demographic born [...]

Lean finely textured ground beef--commonly known as 'pink slime'--had been the subject of media reports for several years without gaining much traction in the food world. But in 2011 the [...]

Breakfast may be the daypart darling of the quick-service world of late, but building morning sales is not without its challenges. So say observers of the growing number of restaurant [...]

At a time when the industry's growth overall is minimal and stealing market share is necessary to build sales, improving the guest experience is proving to be a key factor [...]