Registration is ongoing for the Society for Foodservice Management’s National Conference, set for Oct. 4-7 at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Orlando, Fla. The three-day meeting includes business strategy and professional development workshops covering topics such as crisis management and food safety; foodservice contract language; and the who/what/how to’s of sustainable foods and beverages.Also on the…

Those accustomed to walking the aisles of the biggest restaurant show in the U.S. will get a taste of foodservice from a European perspective at hogatec, the international trade fair for hotels, gastronomy and catering. The 19th edition of the biennial show is Sept. 12-15 at the Dusseldorf Exhibition Centre, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. As in years…

With new halls opening at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre this fall, China’s biggest foodservice show is opening a day early. FHC China 2010, the 14th annual international exhibition for food, drink, hospitality foodservice, bakery and retail industries, will now run Wednesday-Friday, Nov. 10-12. The previously announced Nov. 11-13 show dates, running over a…

In a deal approved last week by a federal bankruptcy court, Luby’s Inc. will acquire most of the assets of burger chain Fuddruckers Inc., its parent Magic Brands LLC and their affiliates for about $61 million in cash. The deal is expected to close by July 26. The 96-unit Houston-based cafeteria chain also will assume…

California Pizza Kitchen has had a busy spring. Its first quarter saw the openings of CPK’s second full-service restaurant in Dubai, UAE, and a quick-serve unit at Stony Brook University in Long Island, N.Y. Since the second-quarter began, the chain’s franchise partners have opened CPK’s first travel-plaza location, its eighth store in Mexico, and an…

Ten Arby’s units a year will be opening in Turkey under a just-signed contract. Arby’s Restaurant Group and Tab Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. inked a development agreement to open at least 100 Arby’s restaurants in Turkey over the next 10 years, including 50 during the next five years. These restaurants will be incremental to…

McDonald’s plans to open 100 more restaurants in South Africa and 120 in India over the next five years as the company seeks out further growth in emerging markets, according to recent interviews with two of the company’s top executives. Tim Fenton, president of the chain’s Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa regions, told Bloomberg News…

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