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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Granted, it’s been a tough couple years for the foodservice equipment and supplies industry. But when we took the pulse of dealers across the country on trends in smallwares and tabletop, we found a lot happening and a great deal of consensus in many areas. Among highlights: Spending on smallwares and tabletop is up.  Food…

Expanding menus, maintaining razor-sharp focus on customer needs, driving out inefficiencies and pouncing on real estate opportunities will be the keys to success in 2010.

The pressureless steamer category is heating up. With numerous award winners in the past few years, the latest crop offers you a wide range of equipment that cooks better, faster, more efficiently…

Looking for a flight-type warewasher? Check out the FER Worldwide Buyers Guide, and you’ll find about a dozen suppliers in the U.S. market. But of that group, a half-dozen really represent the bulk of the volume, and they’re the ones we’ve listed right here. As the main story indicates, all these suppliers offer a wide…