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By the time you read this, the Supreme Court will have ruled on the fate of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. (The court is scheduled to…

The failure rate for Chicago restaurants—both in inspections and in business success—should be shrinking, thanks to long-awaited reforms in city inspection laws. Not only do…

There might be more than 30 million ways to make a pizza, but the joys of customization are colliding with the realities of regulation. Last…

Just weeks after FER Fortnightly reported on the expansion problems chains are experiencing with Utah’s restricted number of liquor licenses, the business-minded state has jumped…

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New board members and nominating committee members elected in March will take their seats in August on the Association for Healthcare Foodservice’s board. New board…

Winston Industries is strengthening its sales force. The Louisville, Ky., company has appointed Bill Wright and Justin Fox as national account executives for the West…

Mitchell Schechter, president, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Schechter Report and Newz-Zoom newsletter, died of heart failure on June 20. He was 60 years old.…

Top restaurant business associations in the U.S. and Canada are partnering up. The National Restaurant Association and the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association have signed…

Twenty-seven years after opening its first international store,