Casual Dining

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Unsolved mysteries

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 10, 2017

Given the mystifying developments that arose, you’d have thought restaurants were holding their own Agatha Christie Week.

Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill's urban renewal

Mar. 09, 2015

In designing its first urban prototype, Denver-based Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill broke out of its suburban mold to inject the energy and rhythm of the city into its new downtown store.

Marketing

Golden oldies get dusted off for new wave of restaurant marketing

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 12, 2017

The quest for customers is prompting some chains to think retro.

Food

Blondie ambition: Better-for-you blondies

By Patricia Cobe on Apr. 03, 2015

Chef and nutritionist Kendra Peterson started playing with the blondie recipe, blending more healthful whole-wheat pastry flour with organic all-purpose flour and adding quinoa flakes.

Financing

IPic Entertainment starts selling stock

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 17, 2018

The movie theater-restaurant chain hopes to raise up to $40 million from investors to expand.

Sysco asks a federal court to green-light merger with US Foods

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 22, 2015

The distribution giant argues in part that the combined company would save $600 million, which would be passed along to foodservice customers in the form of lower prices and better support.