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Two regional posts have been filled at Unified Brands. The Jackson, Miss., company has promoted Dan Monfort to regional sales manager-northeast, and hired Bryan Spencer…

After a successful IPO in October, the Chicago-based Potbelly Sandwich Shop chain continued humming along in its fiscal third quarter when nine new shops opened,…

Gordon Oates Jr., a second-generation member of the foodservice equipment industry, died Dec. 5 at age 62, following an illness. He was 62 years old.…

Los Angeles has many architectural and historical landmarks but few hold the kind of memories created in the original Der Wienerschnitzel outlet. Last month, the…

The two indicators in the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index that track recent and future capital spending by restaurant operators took big hits in…

Unless you spent the holidays on another planet or at least on a remote island paradise with no media access, you are aware that Congress…

The anticipated increase in the capital gains tax at the federal level combined with generational factors, several years of depressed values, and record low-interest rates…

It’s been a very tough slog for foodservice operators the past two years in Britain. The austerity regime of tax increases and benefit cuts put…

The price-increase news for foodservice operators in December was actually pretty good. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported wholesale food prices at all three levels…

It being a new year, we thought we’d share the current macroeconomic forecasts from Blue Chip Economic Indicators. The 50 major economic forecasting groups polled…