Noodles & Company Serves Up Summer in a Bowl

Little else conjures up the nostalgia of childhood in the summer like vegetable gardens, juicy strawberries and backyard barbecues.  Noodles & Company makes it easy to capture all those delicious tastes and memories with the introduction of three wholesome and tasty summer salads. For a limited time, Noodles & Company guests can enjoy three salads [...]

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Coloradoans Prepare For The Nation’s Best New Mexican Restaurant

The much anticipated Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, the nation’s #1 ranked Mexican restaurant, will open its doors in Fort Collins, Colorado on Wednesday, May 16th. The Fort Collins, Colorado restaurant marks the company’s 50th Mexican restaurant and its third Colorado location. When the doors open at 10:30AM at 4414 S. College Ave, the smell of [...]

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Rodizio Grill Has Become a Favorite Destination for Gluten-Free Dining

May is National Celiac Awareness Month and Rodizio Grill is doing their part by providing flavorful gluten-free menu items. Celiac disease is a permanent intolerance to gluten that results in damage to the small intestines. The reaction comes from certain proteins found in many grains like wheat, barley, oats and rye, also known as glutens. [...]

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Chef Gorji on The Secret of Culinary Success: Keep it Simple and Savory

Beating the odds for success as a chef-driven restaurant in a major metropolitan area, especially one as competitive as Dallas-Fort Worth, is not an easy task. Chef Gorji,who celebrates his 9th year at the helm of his intimate and award-winning eatery in North Dallas, has done just that. In a market crowded with steakhouses, mega-theme [...]

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Hurricane Grill & Wings Announces 28 New Franchise Agreements Across The US

Hurricane Grill & Wings is excited to announce five development agreements, adding 28 locations and continuing its national expansion. Currently, the family-friendly, island-inspired restaurant has 46 locations in six states. The new commitments will open restaurants in four new states including Colorado, Maryland, Delaware, Minnesota and additional units in Hudson Valley, New York. Hurricane Grill [...]

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Dickey’s is Having a Smokin’ Celebration in Madison

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit is celebrating their grand opening event on Friday, May 18 from 11am to 1pm where customers will enjoy $1 pulled pork big barbecue sandwiches.”We are excited to bring this great barbecue to the Madison Community,” said franchise owner Nick Ziegler. “We are excited for our Grand Opening event.” At the grand opening [...]

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John Grady, Ninety Nine Restaurants, 2012 Recipient of Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers’ (CHART) Commitment to People Award

The Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers (CHART) will present the 2012 Commitment to People Award to John Grady, President of Ninety Nine Restaurants. He will be honored at the Commitment to People Awards Gala on Monday evening, July 23, 2012, during CHART’s 84th semi-annual Hospitality Training Conference to be held at the Radisson Blu [...]

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OpenTable Introduces Restaurant Industry Index

OpenTable, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPEN), a leading provider of free, real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and reservation and guest management solutions for restaurants, today introduced the OpenTable Restaurant Industry Index, a quarterly barometer that tracks the state of the reservation-taking restaurant industry.  The Index shows year-over-year growth of guests served in reservation-taking restaurants in North [...]

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Cousins Subs Unwraps New Store In Glendale

Cousins Subs has announced they will be unwrapping a new location in Glendale, Ariz. on Thursday, May 17. Wisconsin native, Brian Herczeg and his partners – father Les Herczeg, sister Christina Herczeg, and brother-in-law Matt Walsh – will be opening their first Cousins Subs location at 5350 W. Bell Road, Suite 108, Glendale, Ariz. 85308. [...]

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Free Wine Tasting Compliments of Five O’Clock Steakhouse

Milwaukee’s iconic Five O’Clock Steakhouse recently unveiled an all new wine list featuring an artful blend of full-bodied wines which pair with hearty steakhouse cuisine, as well as, refreshing summer sippers. From now until Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 26, 2012, Five O’Clock Steakhouse invites you to enjoy a complimentary 2 oz. sample of any [...]

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Saladworks to Open in Schaumburg, Illinois

Saladworks, the nation’s first and largest fresh-tossed salad franchise concept, is opening its first Saladworks in Schaumburg, in the Streets of Woodfield Shopping Center, 601 N. Martingale Road, Schaumburg, IL. Saladworks celebrates the opening of its Schaumburg, IL location by offering $5 salads to all customers on both the 21st and 22nd of May. In [...]

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Dickey’s Is Heading To Jackson

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit will be adding a new location in Jackson. Franchise owner Richard Wolcott has signed a lease and is excited to begin construction.”Amador County has a true need for a fast and friendly restaurant the serves great food and that is open regular hours every day of the week,” said new franchise owner [...]

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Urbanspoon Unveils Its 2012 Top High-End Restaurant List

Urbanspoon, the leading mobile restaurant discovery application and reservation management system, has released its first annual Top High-End Restaurant List, recognizing the most highly acclaimed restaurants in the United States. The most comprehensive restaurant list of its kind, the list highlights 250 of the top restaurants across the nation, and is a result of analyzing [...]

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Togo’s Adds New Talent To Executive Team

Togo’s Inc., a “West Coast Original” since 1971 serving up big, made-to-order sandwiches stuffed with the freshest ingredients, is pleased to announce they have hired Zina Hyman as Real Estate Manager for the company. Hyman most recently served as Director of Leasing for Dasher Lawless, Inc., a retail, commercial and residential developer based in Los [...]

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First Twin Peaks Restaurant Now Open in Iowa

Twin Peakshas finally arrived in Iowa thanks to businessman Greg Cutchall. The award-winning adventure lodge’s first location in West Des Moines is now open for dinner at 4570 University Avenue. Less than a year after opening his first Twin Peaks location in Omaha, Cutchall brings to Des Moines a restaurant concept named a “Hot Concept” [...]

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Restaurant Franchise Owners Find Opportunity Over Greens and Corn Pudding

In the summer of 2011, Brent and Malinda Willits reached a franchise agreement with VooDoo BBQ & Grill to open five VooDoo locations in Austin, Texas, a town that already has a freewheeling, anything-goes spirit — not unlike VooDoo’s home city of New Orleans – and a place where people treasure and argue about barbecue. [...]

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Restaurant Chain Growth Report 5/15/12

Growing Concepts Concepts that have grown by at least 5% (if less than 50 units). THE HOME TEAM GRILL based in Glen Allen, VA has increased by 1 unit, from 2 to 3 (50% growth).  These are family/casual restaurants with full bar and seating for around 200.  Meal periods are lunch and dinner.  Banquets are [...]

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Red Robin Announces Additions to Menu Team

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc., a casual dining restaurant chain focused on serving an innovative selection of high-quality gourmet burgers in a family-friendly atmosphere, today announced the formation of a new Menu Team that includes the addition of a director of Culinary, director of Research & Development and a Master Mixologist.

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Diversified Restaurant Holdings Opens Newest Bagger Dave’s Location

Diversified Restaurant Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:DFRH) (“DRH” or the “Company”), the owner, operator, and franchisor of the unique, full-service, ultra-casual restaurant and bar Bagger Dave’s Legendary Burger Tavern (“Bagger Dave’s”) and a leading franchisee for Buffalo Wild Wings(“BWW”), announced that it officially opened its seventh Bagger Dave’s location at The Grandville Marketplace in Grandville, Michigan on [...]

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Bennigan’s Employee Honors Fallen Soldier With Facebook Memorial

Hannah Hobbs, an employee of Bennigan’s Borger, TX restaurant, has recently sparked the national restaurant chain to create awareness and help raise funds for the families of U.S. military personnel and wounded warriors. During the month of May, Bennigan’s Restaurants will be launching a social media effort on its Facebook page entitled the “Wall of [...]

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Mimi’s Cafe “Soup To-Go” program supports hunger relief year-round

One in six Americans are at risk of hunger, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service.  In response, Mimi’s Cafe is taking its mission to help fight hunger a step further by launching an ongoing hunger relief initiative in association with Food Donation Connection (“FDC”) – a national network that connects restaurants and food service companies [...]

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“Hell’s Kitchen” is Now Casting the Best Chefs in America!

FOX’s hit unscripted series “HELL’S KITCHEN” is back again as Chef Gordon Ramsay looks for the Best of the Best to work beside him in the hottest kitchen on Earth! The nationwide casting call has begun and we’re in search of America’s culinary elite who not only have the skills but the stamina to cook [...]

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Fazoli’s April Sales Set New Record

New marketing and hospitality programs launched in early April, combined with a recently revamped menu, expanded service and a new unit design, helped drive a nearly 11 percent same-store sales increase last month at Fazoli’s, America’s largest premium Italian quick-service restaurant. The new marketing program spotlights recent changes that include the new look, new menu, [...]

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Illinois Hardee’s Posts Record-Breaking Opening Week

Burger lovers in Loves Park, Illinois wasted no time welcoming Hardee’sback into the community last week. The newly opened Hardee’s in the Rockford area set a company sales record in its opening week in Loves Park, topping the previous Hardee’s domestic sales mark at a Sioux Falls, South Dakota restaurant in October 2010. “We knew [...]

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