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Red Robin CEO Denny Marie Post retires

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 03, 2019

Board Chair Pattye Moore will serve as the interim CEO as the company looks for a successor

Steak 'n Shake's owner removes its CEO's pay limits

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 02, 2019

Sardar Biglari, who controls more than 50% of the company’s shares, will no longer have his salary capped at $10 million, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

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Inspire Brands boots up a different sort of website

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 02, 2019

The new site provides a detailed assessment of the company’s economic impact on each state.

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Yum’s 4 business drivers under Creed

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 02, 2019

Greg Creed and his senior team say there are four drivers of same-store sales growth and chain expansion. Everything, they say, relates back to these principles, presented here in the company’s own words.

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The Rule Breaker

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 01, 2019

A distinctive management style, combined with indisputable success in expanding all three of Yum Brands' franchise chains, earned Greg Creed the distinction of being this year's Restaurant Leader of the Year.

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The last time McDonald’s professed no opposition to a wage hike

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 27, 2019

In the 1980s, executives remarked offhandedly that an increase would be no big deal. Not everyone sat back in passive acceptance.

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Marriott’s Fred Malek dies at age 82

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 26, 2019

In a career that shifted from politics to business and back, the West Point graduate headed one of the industry’s largest foodservice operations and later invested in several others through The Carlyle Group.

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Panera’s parent voluntarily owns up to its Nazi past

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 25, 2019

The family controlling JAB Holding Co. acknowledges that an earlier version of the company used slave labor during World War II and that two predecessors were guilty of unprosecuted war crimes.

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