economy

Crumbs closes all stores; cupcake craze crumbles?

Jul. 08, 2014

News outlets are proclaiming the cupcake craze dead after the country’s largest cupcake chain, Crumbs Bake Shop, announced it would shut down all its stores immediately.

Taking credit

By Dina Berta on Apr. 16, 2015

Operators are scrambling to find ways to deal with the sudden or inevitable labor-cost increases.

In the balance

By Restaurant Business Staff on Mar. 05, 2003

Front page news tends to be gloomy, but especially so when the economy is wobbly or our foreign relationships are on the rocks. Instability of any kind creates divisions within communities and countries.

Cocktail napkins

By Bill Main on Mar. 11, 2004

Often the recorder of lunch-time business plans, cute girls' phone numbers and Warhol-worthy doodles, the cocktail napkins can take on additional duties as a service tool.

Sysco to Build Third RDC in Indiana

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 28, 2006

The facility will create approximately 500 news jobs in the process, the company said.Following an extensive review of sites throughout the states of...

NRA Expert: Despite Monthly Gloom, Distributors’ Optimism is Justified

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 04, 2008

“The health of the industry overall remains positive,” Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of Research and Information Services for the National...

Somerset Food Service to Supply Fazoli

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 04, 2009

Headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, Fazoli’s currently has 260 units in 30 states from Florida to California and Wisconsin to Texas. Somerset will...

USF Minnesota Division Achieves Green Business Certification

By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 03, 2009

To achieve certification, USF has improved solid waste reduction, re-use and recycling, energy efficiency, purchasing and packaging, and employee education...

Financing

2010 product preview: What's next?

By Restaurant Business Staff on Dec. 03, 2009

Optimism is in the air as we look ahead to 2010, but product and menu developers are proceeding with caution.

Foodservice May Be Seeing Some Light at the End of the Tunnel, Reports NPD

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 14, 2010

CHICAGO (April 13, 2010 - BUSINESS WIRE)—Signals are emerging that the restaurant industry is poised for a turn toward recovery, according to The NPD...

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