What Was Darden Restaurants Thinking When It Sold Red Lobster?
Darden Restaurants recently announced the sale of Red Lobster to Golden Gate Capital for $1.6 billion. Many investors believe there were a number of better ways to unlock value for shareholders....
View ArticleBuzzed: Bars and Restaurants Keep Customers' Smartphones Juiced
From USB ports to mobile chargers, restaurants and bars are finding inventive ways to keep their customers' phones juiced. Reported by msnbc.com 12 hours ago.
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Waffle House Chairman Files Lawsuit in Ongoing Sex Scandal
Patch Acworth, GA -- Waffle House restaurants chairman of the board Joe Rogers Jr. has sued three Georgia attorneys claiming they helped his former housekeeper record sexual encounters with him in an...
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Analysts fear terrorist attacks in African cities during World Cup
Analysts say that bars, restaurants and other venues in Africa that screen World Cup matches will be at risk of terrorist attack during the tournament that kicks off on Thursday in Brazil. Reported by...
View ArticleSonic to Release Third Quarter 2014 Financial Results on June 23, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sonic Corp. (NASDAQ:SONC), the nation's largest chain of drive-in restaurants, today announced that it will release results for the quarter ended May 30, 2014 after the...
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8 Refreshing Cocktails To Imbibe This Summer
Refreshing summer cocktails are flourishing at bars and restaurants all over town, with a wide variety of colorful concoctions featuring fresh, fruit-forward flavors that make for some deceptively...
View ArticleAlex Smith plans to keep Lamill, Pabu concepts and bring them 'up to the Four...
The restaurants that replace Lamill and Pabu in the Four Seasons Baltimore will each stick with their current styles of cuisine, but Alex Smith thinks he can do them better. Lamill and Pabu, two of the...
View ArticleHow Will Iran's Nuclear Waltz With the US End?
When my American wife and I flew into the Iranian island of Kish in 2007 from the nearby emirate of Dubai, we did so with reservations. The blue mosques of Isfahan had been our original destination,...
View ArticleAndrew Zimmern Says This Is The Best Food City In The World
Andrew Zimmern has traveled all over the world just to eat. He's tried everything from roasted bats in Samoa to rotten shark in Iceland. But, he's also dined in incredible fine-dining restaurants...
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8 Real Italian Dishes You Should Order Instead Of The American Knockoffs
When Americans think of Italian food, they tend to think of pepperoni pizza, garlic bread, and chicken Parmesan. But all of those dishes are actually Italian-American hybrid foods created by Italian...
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Another Restaurant Abolishes Tipping In Favor Of New Policy
Tipping can be a tricky business. There's the fact that in many service jobs, tips make up a large part of the worker's pay but aren't mandatory; that every country seems to have different accepted...
View ArticleGoing Out To A Restaurant Is About To Look A Lot More Like Buying Concert...
The experience of going out to a fancy dinner is about to become even more like going to see a rock concert or NBA game -- with benefits a-many for restaurateurs everywhere. Last week, Nick Kokonas,...
View ArticleHow Chef Kuniko Yagi Ditched A Prestigious Bank Job And Found Happiness In...
LOS ANGELES -- Where do up-and-comers congregate for lunch in LA? The Ivy's a little traditional. The Polo Lounge has become un-PC. Hinoki and the Bird is now the place to be. The restaurant's 155...
View ArticleMilwaukee Asian market expansion to include nine restaurants, 143 booths
An expansion of Milwaukee’s Asian Market Phongsavan on North 76th Street will add nine restaurants and have 143 booths for merchants, all of which are pre-leased. The new building is planned adjacent...
View ArticleJobs Friday: What The Bubblevision Revelers Missed
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, Yes, the nonfarm payroll clocked in at 138.5 million jobs and thereby *retraced for the first time the point at which it stood 77 months ago in...
View ArticleThis Smartphone-Controlled Paper Toy Drone Is About To Hit The Masses
A modern middle school engineering marvel, the paper airplane is taking a giant leap forward thanks to a million-dollar Kickstarter campaign. The PowerUp 3.0, a device that lets you pilot a paper...
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Engineer Floats Idea of Luxury 'Island' in Lake Michigan
Patch Algonquin-Lake in the Hills, IL -- Plainfield native Beau D'Arcy is looking to create a floating oasis 1 mile off the shore, complete with restaurants, a pool and more, according to the...
View ArticleWarnings for smartphone, credit-card users at World Cup
Soccer fans lucky enough to be traveling to Brazil for the World Cup are hearing an earful of consumer warnings about potentially onerous smartphone roaming charges and credit card ripoffs at ATMs and...
View ArticleTable Tracker Named Among Fast Casual Top 100 Movers and Shakers for 2014
Report Places LRS Launches Affordable, Scalable Marketing Services for Small-medium Sized Businesses Dallas (PRWEB) June 10, 2014 Long Range Systems (LRS), a leading supplier of messaging and tracking...
View ArticleObama leaves White House for lunch with Duncan
President Barack Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, had lunch Tuesday at an Alexandria, Virginia, neighborhood known for its good restaurants. Reported by Miami Herald 12 hours ago.
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