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June 12, 2012
Colleen Francis To Head Latin American Sales For Peerless
Peerless Food Equipment has added Colleen Francis, CFSP, to its sales team as its new international sales manager-Latin America. She will oversee direct sales and work with the manufacturer’s Latin American agents on all its bakery-equipment product lines, including Fedco, Peters and SuperGrain. Francis brings Peerless more than 18 years of experience selling in Latin America….
June 12, 2012
Chick-fil-A Gets Bigger In Texas And Nationwide
The Atlanta chain has opened its fifth stand-alone restaurant in the Houston area. The Deer Park, Texas, unit is the latest of 96 locations Chick-fil-A plans to open nationwide in 2012. It projects adding 79 stand-alone, two mall and 15 licensed locations. Last year, the chain continued expanding in Chicago and debuted in Hollywood, Calif.,…
June 12, 2012
Starbucks Beefs Up Regional Management
Starbucks Coffee Co. is reconfiguring and strengthening its three-region operating model. The Seattle chain has made several leadership changes to its ranks. Lucy Lee Helm has been named executive v.p., general counsel and secretary; Arthur Rubinfeld, chief creative officer and president-global development and Evolution Fresh retail; Annie Young-Scrivner, executive v.p./ president-Starbucks Canada; Colin Moore, senior…
June 12, 2012
Dunkin’ Brands Names Chief Global Strategy Officer
Dunkin’ Brands Group, the parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, has appointed Neil Moses as its chief global strategy officer. Moses, who was serving as CFO, had lately been focusing on the company’s strategic initiatives. In his new post, he will oversee the company’s strategy, finance, global supply chain and information technology functions. Moses…
June 12, 2012
Houston To Gain 18 Mama Fu’s
The Austin, Texas-based chain has signed its largest franchise deal to date, inking a deal with a Houston franchisee to open 18 new Mama Fu’s Asian House restaurants in that city’s metro area. The chain plans to open between eight and 10 new stores around the country in the next 12 months. The ‘flex-casual” chain,…
June 12, 2012
Macroeconomic Forecasts Downgraded In June Survey
The consensus forecasts of the 50 major economic forecasting groups polled monthly by Blue Chip Economic Indicators fell again in the June survey. The group cut its forecast for growth of real gross domestic product in the U.S. by 0.2 point to 2.1% for this year and by 0.1 point to 2.4% for 2013. Another…
June 12, 2012
Restaurant Traffic Rose 1% In First Quarter, Says NPD
Mild winter weather prompted consumers to eat out at restaurants more often in the first quarter, according to data from The NPD Group’s CREST. Overall restaurant traffic was up 1% in the January through March period, compared to the first quarter last year. It was the strongest gain in visits since the second quarter 2008….
June 12, 2012
Sales And Traffic Slowed In April, NRA Reports
Higher gasoline prices and softening jobs growth earlier this spring finally caught up with consumer spending at restaurants, according to the National Restaurant Association. The group’s monthly Restaurant Performance Index data on current same-store sales and customer traffic took strong hits in April, though both remained in positive territory. And operators remained optimistic about future…
June 11, 2012
SPECIAL REPORT: FER’s Top Dealers Rebounded In 2011
Aggressive chain buying and growing importance of Internet
sales seen in second annual analysis of verified dealer volumes.
June 8, 2012
New Openings Hit Quarterly High For Papa John’s
It’s not just the dough that’s rising at
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