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A month after opening its first Red Lobster in Dubai, Darden Restaurants has entered into a formal area-development agreement to build and operate Olive Garden,…

Dallas-based Bennigan’s Franchise Co. has 20 locations under development and plans to add its third corporate store in its hometown. Its other corporate stores will…

Iowa is a hot market these days for both politics and doughnuts. Dunkin’ Donuts is planning to add about 20 locations in the Des Moines…

Wahoo’s, which used a food truck in the summer of 2011 as its mobile test kitchen, is slated to add another 30 stores to its…

Panera Bread has upped its expectations for new-unit growth and anticipates about 100 new units in 2011. In the second quarter, it cut the ribbon…

Phoenix will be home to Naked Pizza’s new corporate development and training hub. The all-natural pizza company, launched in 2009 as a franchise company, currently…

Alabama may soon become the fifth state for Mama Fu’s Asian House restaurants. The Austin, Texas, chain currently operates 13 locations in Arkansas, Florida, North…

An investment group led by former Hooters execs has signed a series of development deals for rival chain Twin Peaks. The agreements call for the…

Marble Slab Creamery and MaggieMoo’s Ice Cream and Treatery are merging into one concept, which retains the Marble Slab name and integrates both chains’ products…

Upscale steakhouse chain Smith & Wollensky is moving its corporate headquarters to Boston from Las Vegas to be closer to its financial backer, Hub private-equity…