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The better-than-expected jobs report for December is likely to continue a trend of improving consumer confidence. Both Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers and…

If it’s March, it’s time to head for Germany.

Foodservice traffic during the third quarter 2011 rose in only four of the 10 major country markets tracked by The NPD Group, according to a…

Restaurant operators reported their strongest net positive same-store sales results in more than four years in November, while customer traffic levels also grew. The positive…

Two appointments to announce at

That sticky wicket of regulating what people put in their mouths is rearing its head again in Cleveland. The city is suing the state of…

There will be no decision, and thus no clarity, in the long-running California case of Brinker Int’l. v. Superior Court, until spring at the earliest.…

A year before celebrating its centennial anniversary in business,

We’ve reported a number of stories on restaurant grease and used fryer oil: clogged drains in Seattle, overflows in New Jersey,

Edward Herbst, longtime manufacturer’s representative and owner of The Ed Herbst Co., in Chicago, died Dec. 17. He was 91. During his career, Mr. Herbst…