Chicago-based Naf Naf Grill, now backed with investment from Roark Capital Group, plans to expand from its current 13 units to 150 restaurants within five years. While terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, Roark has taken a minority position to help expand the 6-year-old chain’s footprint beyond the Chicago area, starting this summer with…

Who says turtles are slow? On the heels of celebrating the opening of its 40th unit, The Greene Turtle Sports Bar & Grille has inked a development agreement to open 10 locations in the counties surrounding the city of Philadelphia. This follows the 2014 deal for a separate group to open 11 units of the…

In what would be a huge expansion of its composting program, New York City is moving to require arenas, large hotel restaurants and food wholesalers to compost all of their food scraps. The program would be mandatory for some New York businesses that generate large amounts of food waste, like the Barclays Center, Citi Field…

Michigan’s legislature is mulling a bipartisan bill that would require prison kitchen facilities to have food-safety inspections performed when a contractor is managing the kitchen. Currently, under the Michigan Food Law, state prison kitchen facilities are exempt from being classified as a “food establishment” and are not subject to the routine inspections mandated for other…

Subway has named Suzanne Greco President while her brother, Founder and CEO Fred DeLuca, battles leukemia. She now will share day-to-day operations with DeLuca, who continues to set the overall strategic direction for the company. Greco will report directly to DeLuca. Greco has been involved with the Milford, Conn., chain since it was founded in…