Sentences with phrase «opening restaurants from»

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A McDonald's restaurant opened on Wednesday at the site of its new corporate headquarters in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood, and its rotating menu features McDonald's favorites from around the world.

Previously, same - store sales growth represented the estimated percentage change in sales of all restaurants in the Company system that have been open for one year or more, and the base stores changed on a rolling basis from month to month.

Though the new corporate headquarters isn't opening until later this spring, the restaurant itself is open and features a rotating menu of global McDonald's favorites from countries like France, Brazil, and Australia, as well as traditional McDonald's menu items like the Big Mac and Chicken McNuggets.

His small place in New York's East Village quickly garnered a loyal following, and Holden, who comes from a fishing family in Maine, has since opened up three restaurants.

From the opening on, our third restaurant did half as much business as the first two.

Colossal mugs of root beer loom on a table at the recently - opened A&W restaurant on Toronto's Ossington Street where two millennials take a break from shopping.

By analyzing data and employing A / B testing to decipher, for example, how its opening in Miami differed from its opening in Atlanta, the company quickly identified key indicators that a market was a good fit, namely cities with «significant population density, restaurant density... and a high percentage of independent restaurants,» says Zabusky.

The presence of Amazon is so huge in Seattle that it has also spurred the openings of restaurants and bars that benefit from the headquarters» lunchtime and happy - hour crowds, as well as new bus lines for Amazon interns.

Those other burritos include menu staples from Taco Bell (pep), which is no stranger to inventive food mashups, and Chipotle (cmg), which said in March that it was considering opening a burger restaurant.

The 1,700 - outlet chain has grown quickly since it opened in 1993 with a single location, distinguishing itself from typical fast - food restaurants by touting its use of healthy and high - quality fresh ingredients in its menu of burritos, tacos and salads.

A teenage immigrant from Hong Kong (his English remains heavily accented and he doesn't speak French), Ma opened his first venue, a Chinese and Polynesian restaurant, in 1979, at the age of 29.

Then, in 2011, after opening his second restaurant, Eggen approached his son, who was home from college where he was studying to be a teacher.

Second quarter sales at Panera's company - owned cafes rose 4.2 % on a comparable basis, a metric that indicates a restaurant's health by excluding any gains from new store openings.

Andrew and Peggy Cherng, now 65 and 62, respectively, opened their first Chinese restaurant in 1973 with $ 60,000 from savings and a Small Business Administration loan, plus relatives who worked for free.

What typically happens is a sommelier takes a sous chef from a restaurant and opens his or her own place.

But four years after graduating from Western University, Cowin was in Australia, opening up that country's first KFC to take advantage of a market underserved by fast - food restaurants.

The company announced Tuesday it will open up a pop - up restaurant, the Spotted Cheetah, in the trendy Tribeca area for three days only from Aug. 15 to 17.

Turnas says that he's looked to fine dining restaurateurs, who have opened up fast casual concepts — like Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, which expanded from high - end restaurants like Gramercy Tavern and the Modern into the Shake Shack chain.

For chef Dave Pynt, who moved to Singapore from Australia last year to open Burnt Ends, a grill - positive restaurant in the trendy Chinatown area, the city's food culture is a constant inspiration.

But even though the odds are long that they'd ever open permanent restaurants in Australia, they also want to prevent anyone else from putting together a blatant rip - off of their brand in a foreign country.

Nazarian's upscale burger push is the latest example of a restaurant industry betting that diners are coming back, ready for new experiences and more willing to open their wallets, as the economy emerges from its long slumber.

50,000 BONUS POINTS after you spend $ 4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening $ 300 Annual Travel Credit as reimbursement for travel purchases such as airfare and hotels charged to your card 3X points on travel and dining at restaurants worldwide & 1 point per dollar spent on all other purchases.

At home, the company's annual same - store sales growth in Canada — a measure of the performance of restaurants open for more than a year — have slipped from a high of six per cent in the mid-2000s to little more than one per cent last year.

There's Container Park, an outdoor hangout space and shopping center made out of shipping containers where Sheryl Crow played a live concert last year, new restaurants which will serve food as diverse as handmade Cajun sausages and vegan pizza, the new independent bookstore that just opened, founded by Scott Seeley, who is imported from Brooklyn and once ran Dave Eggers» 826NYC.

Splitsville Luxury Lanes, an upscale bowling alley and restaurant from Florida, opened earlier this year in the former House of Blues space.

If you'd like a safer bet than starting your own restaurant from scratch, consider opening a franchise of an established restaurant chain, and reap the benefits of an already - popular brand.

Our touchstone will be readers, understanding what they care about — government, local leaders, restaurant openings, scout troops, businesses, charities, governors, sports — and working backwards from there.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The restaurant seats 70 and is open from 4...

When its Fifth Avenue building opened in February 1914, it drew 75,000 visitors, who were treated to music from a pipe organ on the seventh floor and could choose to dine in one of three restaurants on the top floor.

There are little respites from this, like a local gay - friendly restaurant or some gay - owned businesses... or open and affirming congregations like the one I attend.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

An American Christian University is urging its students not to apply for a job at a new Hooters restaurant that is weeks away from opening in the area.

Christian culture pervades many aspects of Chick - fil - A's operations, from its corporate purpose — which includes «to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us» — to its policy of closing restaurants on Sundays to praying at restaurant openings.

I'm thankful to the NFL for 3 football games and the restaurant I» getting takeout Thanksgiving dinner from for being open.

The restaurant will employee about 100 people, and will likely be open from 6 a.m. until midnight (exact hours to be announced closer to the opening date).

The San Antonio restaurant will be open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday.

Perhaps it was the smell of cheesecake wafting from his parents» «Cheesecake Factory» bakery, but David eventually made his way to the cheesecake paradise and opened the first Cheesecake Factory restaurant that would showcase all of his parents» incredible dessert recipes.

This time, I ordered my michelada from Spitz, a new Mediterranean restaurant that just opened up in our neighborhood.

Tyler Florence lives in Mill Valley and opened a wildly popular restaurant, The Wayfare Tavern, a block away from our office in San Francisco's financial district.

Opening a restaurant requires countless important decisions, which range from the number of seats in the dining room to the distance between the bathroom and the kitchen.

The road from the business plan that Altero wrote as a business school assignment to the opening of the restaurant's first location in Point Pleasant, N.J., in 2008, had some detours and a critical connection with the man who would become his partner.

The restaurant will be open Wednesday — Sunday from 5 p.m. — 9 p.m. until Memorial Day weekend, when it will extend its hours to Tuesday — Sunday, 5 p.m. — 9:30 p.m. Diners are welcome to enjoy their meals in one of two cozy parlor rooms or in the main dining room.

So she took a hiatus from her current job to help a former associate who had recently opened a restaurant.

Ingber also has been buying large shrimp for 10 years from Eastern Fish Co. «We're only one of two restaurants that buy direct from them,» Ingber maintains «They opened up a wonderful world for us of consistency for our shrimp cocktail that we didn't have before we were involved with them.

From there, Chef Darryl went on to open Bridge Seafood, various other small restaurants, and also ran a catering company.

The first Le Peep restaurant opened in Aspen, Colo., in 1963, with what was then a unique concept — operating from 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and specializing in breakfast and brunch offerings.

«We learned early on that franchisees entering new markets need to develop and open multiple restaurants as quickly as they reasonable can in order to really develop and benefit from brand awareness,» he says.

This weekend, TAO Group founders Marc Packer and Rich Wolf, along with Chef / Owner Chris Santos opened VANDAL (199 Bowery), a bi-level restaurant, bar and lounge showcasing the work of world - renowned street artists alongside globally inspired street food from destinations as varied as Peru, Vietnam and Barcelona.

Whalen's father couldn't rent or sell the restaurant that was in an isolated, inconvenient location a short distance from I - 80 in Davenport, Iowa, so Whalen — a recent graduate of Harvard University's law school — offered to open a restaurant there.