management

How a failing guest feedback program helped Texas Steakhouse improve

By Joann Whitcher on Jun. 05, 2013

What happens when your guest feedback programs insist your customers love you, but your restaurant is empty? That was Terry Smith’s dilemma when he was brought on board as consultant for Texas Steakhouse in 2008.

How a Foodservice Distributor Can Successfully Acquire the Right Firm - Part 2

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 04, 2004

(With several large and small distributorships telling us of their plans to acquire other companies, we decided to ask mergers and acquisitions expert George...

Financing

Crowdfunding smarts

By Vanessa Richardson on Jan. 21, 2014

Crowdfunding is a sea change for small businesses that don’t want to go the traditional financing route. Can it work for restaurants?

COI Deploys Amphire System

By Restaurant Business Staff on Nov. 09, 2004

REDWOOD SHORES, CA - COI Foodservice Distribution has deployed the Amphire Connect system to electronically enable transactions with its entire supplier...

Hedge fund seeks to replace Darden's board of directors

May 23, 2014

Stillman, the founder of T.G.I. Fridays and Smith & Wollensky, and Blum, an architect of Olive Garden’s growth in the chain’s heyday, are among the industry veterans dissident shareholder Starboard Value wants on a completely new Darden board.

PFG's Spinner: 'Going Back to Our Roots'

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. 13, 2005

In support of this, said Steve Spinner, president, the company's previously designated Broadline division has ceased to exist as a distinct unit and its...

Cinnabon’s Kat Cole gets a new job

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 05, 2015

After leading the bakery chain for four years, Cole is stepping up to group president of the concept’s parent company, Focus Brands. Her duties as Cinnabon president have been assumed by former COO Joe Guith.

Sysco Appoints Two Execs to Contract Sales

By Restaurant Business Staff on Nov. 08, 2005

The distributorship also announced that David B. Smallwood, a 25-year Sysco veteran and currently vice president of multi-unit sales, would retire from the...

Panera names Drew Madsen president

May 11, 2015

The former Darden president will oversee Panera’s core cafe business.

U of Georgia to Host Produce Food Safety Workshop

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 24, 2006

The workshop is designed to teach produce professionals safe farming and handling practices and the three-day session will feature discussions of the latest...

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