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January 6, 2014

New Exec Will Spearhead Taco Cabana, Pollo Tropical Development

Fiesta Restaurant Group has hired Ed Carnevale as v.p.-construction services to support growth of its Taco Cabana and Pollo Tropical brands. Fiesta has 255 company-owned and operated restaurants and 44 franchised restaurants in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. Carnevale will report to Chief Development…

January 6, 2014

IFMA Presents Gold Plate Award To Independent/Multi-Concept Operator

John C. Metz Jr., CEO/executive chef and co-founder of Atlanta-based Sterling Hospitality, was named the Gold Plate Award winner by the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association on May 20. Metz, nominated by The Coca-Cola Co. and Ecolab, was one of eight operator executives who were eligible for the award after receiving the IFMA Silver Plate award…

January 6, 2014

New Directions For Cornyn And Fasano

John Cornyn and Joyce Fasano, veteran foodservice consultants best known for long careers at The Cornyn Fasano Group designing facilities for the educational sector, B&I, recreational and fine arts sectors, have closed shop and taken executive roles at another firm. Cornyn and Fasano are now vice presidents at Brailsford & Dunlavey. Cornyn and Fasano joined…

January 6, 2014

NRA To Host First-Ever Restaurant Innovation Summit

The National Restaurant Association will host a two-day seminar this fall as a way to offer operators ideas to better engage guests through emerging technology. “Restaurant Innovation Summit: Emerging Technology and the Customer Experience,” Oct. 23-24 in Denver, will feature sessions on mobile payment, enabling in-store customer interaction, maximizing out-of-store interaction, and leveraging big data….

January 6, 2014

Hooters Parent Buys American Roadside Burgers

Chanticleer Holdings, parent of the 430-unit Hooters chain, has announced an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of five-unit burger chain American Roadside Burgers. Terms of the acquisition were not released; the deal is expected to be approved by Sept. 30. Both companies are based in Charlotte, N.C. ARB is a 10-year-old casual-dining restaurant chain…

January 6, 2014

Middleby Marshall Marks 125 Years Of Oven Manufacturing

Middleby Marshall is celebrating a landmark year in the foodservice E&S business: 125 years as an oven manufacturer. Among the honors the company has received on its anniversary is an honorary street sign, “Middleby Way,” displayed on Toastmaster Drive by its headquarters in Elgin, Ill. It is only the third such honorary street sign in…

January 6, 2014

SFM Rebrands Officially As SHFM, Presents Awards

In with the new this month as the 35-year-old Society for Foodservice Management has become the Society for Hospitality and Foodservice Management. The strategic brand enhancement was unveiled in October at the association’s national conference in Bonita Springs, Fla. The change addresses the evolving responsibilities of the association’s key member segment, Client Liaisons and Self-Operators…

January 6, 2014

Middleby Adds Group President-India And Sales Director For Star Group

Weeks after announcing its acquisition of Celfrost Innovations Pvt. Ltd., a Gurgaon, India-based firm with $20 million in annual sales of commercial refrigerators, ice machines, freezers and walk-ins, Middleby Corp. has appointed Partha Biswas as group president of Middleby India. Biswas will have full responsibilities in the country, overseeing multiple operations, including sales and service…

January 6, 2014

In Memoriam: Lew Burns

Lewis Burns, whose career with Dover Corp. spanned more than 40 years, died Nov. 17. He was 75. Burns joined the Downers Grove, Ill., company as a staff accountant and served as president and CEO of Dover Industries. He retired in 2003 but continued to serve as a director of Dover Industries for two more…

January 6, 2014

Things Will Get Better, Blue Chip Forecasts. Just Not Yet

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 monthly by Blue Chip raised their consensus forecast for real growth of gross domestic product in the U.S. this year by a tick to 2% in the early January survey….

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