Sentences with phrase «restaurants as chains»

Not exact matches

As Red Lobster struggles, Darden is looking to sell or spin off the seafood restaurant to focus on more profitable up - and - coming chains.

May 2 (Reuters)- Yum Brands Inc's sales at established outlets rose at just half the pace expected by Wall Street, as its KFC and Pizza Hut chains struggled to attract enough diners in a fiercely competitive restaurant industry.

Freshii Inc. founder Matthew Corrin has a penchant for using open letters as a marketing tool to promote his health - conscious restaurant chain.

As a born and bred New Englander, I'm woefully inexperienced when it comes to some regional restaurant chains.

As Fortune stated in an article earlier this month, while the chain was once the envy of restaurant operators across the country, «the outbreak of foodborne illnesses that broke out coast to coast for five months in 2015 has permanently impaired the profitability of its business model.»

The casual dining chain's parent company Dine Brands Global (din) said on Tuesday it would close as many as 80 Applebee's restaurants this year on top of the nearly 100 it shuttered last year, while opening between 10 and 15 as it looks to improve the restaurant's fortunes.

New tech will ensure that individual places, restaurant groups, franchises or chains understand you as a guest across all locations.

But it's gained momentum over the past year as major retail and restaurant chains — ranging from Kmart to Neiman Marcus to Dairy Queen — have been hit by massive security breaches.

Fittingly, this question is from restaurant chain Jack Astor's, but office workers have been fielding these questions since as far back as the 1980s.

Within six months, the company increased ten-fold from 3,000 to 30,000 distribution points that include company operated stores, franchised businesses, retailers, grocers, restaurant chains, and food service locations, such as college campuses.

Just as the country's largest generation has killed off certain chain restaurants and home goods, their attitudes are forcing teachers to rethink education.

Penegor is certainly right about the downturn in sales at restaurants, as we have previously noted, and other fast - food chains such as Burger King and Taco Bell also saw sales declines in their most recent quarters.

But the past few years have been tough on casual restaurants — a vast category that occupies everything between fast food and fine dining — as chains have surrendered market share to a growing wave of upscale fast - food brands like Five Guys and Freshii.

Brands such as Buffalo Wild Wings, Ruby Tuesday, and Applebee's have faced sales slumps and dozens of restaurant closings as casual - dining chains have struggled to attract customers and increase sales.

Now it looks as though bargain shoppers are once again controlling the restaurant industry — something that is driving consumers away from casual chains in favor of eating at home or at fast - food and fast - casual chains.

Coffee's growth is noteworthy in light of the ho - hum overall restaurant landscape as many chains are struggling to perk up customer traffic.

He also has said he is betting against hamburger chain restaurants as the industry condenses, and in September announced a short against Continental Resources.

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is launching the chain's first - ever digital ordering platform, the latest restaurant brand to embrace the web as diners increasingly migrate to online channels to place orders.

It may have started as a pop - up shop in a ramen restaurant, but today Boba Guys operates a chain of tea shops — and premiered on this year's Inc. 5000 at No. 229.

Fast food delivery has become a growing trend as restaurant chains try to boost the convenience factor of their food to keep customers satisfied.

As most of you probably know, I operate a chain of fast - casual restaurants in New York City called Kobeyaki, which feature Japanese «rolls, bowls, burgers & buns.»

Investors have picked a winner, as the stocks for both restaurant chains have also flowed in different directions.

Within the so called «fast - casual» restaurant space, a category led by Panera and burrito chain Chipotle (CMG), the message is often just as important as the menu.

The reason I started bootstrapping is simple: I was fired as the head of marketing for a large restaurant chain, and I didn't know any better.

Ikea's food and restaurant business alone raked in $ 1.76 billion in 2015 — and with over 328 stores in 43 countries, it certainly qualifies as a global restaurant chain.

The restaurant chain says digital orders could make up half of the total business down the road, which means it could be just as big of a business as it is for pizza chains today.

Fast casual chains sell food that consumers perceive as having higher quality than fast - food restaurants and are also priced a few dollars above those bargain - focused chains, but doesn't require table service like Olive Garden, Applebee's and other casual - dining chains.

These goals were announced as the chain reported that global sales at restaurants open at least a year, or same - store sales, increased 5.9 % in 2015, with net income for the year reaching $ 44.1 million.

Chipotle, one of the first national brands to market where its ingredients come from, has faced supply - chain issues and food - borne - illness outbreaks as its restaurants have grown in number to more than 2,300.

The restaurant chain, along with many of the industry's largest brands, including McDonald's and Burger King (bkw), have faced challenging sales trends as consumers have shifted their spending patterns.

The restaurant chain's sales have fallen for eight straight quarters, even as competitors like Domino's and Papa John's have seen revenue increase.

The moves come as the world's largest restaurant company faces increasingly stiff competition from other fast - food outlets as well as from a growing number of fast - casual restaurant chains.

Fast - casual restaurants have menus that are filled with food that consumers perceive as healthier fare than what fast - food competitors sell, but without the table service found at casual dining chains.

Chipotle Mexican Grill has partnered with an online education startup to help the restaurant chain expand a tuition reimbursement program that could result in some employees paying as little as $ 250 per year to take college courses.

Believing that fast growth was essential if Starbucks was to establish itself as the national brand leader, he wanted to head off independent coffee roasters in other cities that were starting to expand, as well as any restaurant chain that noticed the growing market for specialty coffee.

There are a couple of things to keep in mind: Some chains operate as franchises that allow individual managers to set a restaurant's hours for the day.

Fresh Choice, a family - restaurant chain with locations in California, Washington, and Texas, sponsors school fund - raisers that double as new - store promotions.

Most people know you as the CBC Dragon who built the Canadian restaurant chain Boston Pizza.

Restaurants could emulate Dunkin' Brands Group's new concept store, where the chain experiments with new technology such as ordering kiosks and separate areas for mobile order pick - up.

Many of the larger restaurant chains have said it can take up to a decade to implement the switch, as it requires investment from the suppliers and farmers to adhere to the new standards.

Some believed the restaurant chain was involved in the project as a marketing ploy but Olive Garden denied the claim in a statement to CNBC that said»

Shares of Shake Shack more than doubled on the first day of trading Friday, as investors feasted on a chance to get a piece of the New York burger chain before it opens hundreds of additional restaurants in the U.S.

Called LTOs, these menu item offerings often debut quarterly as a way for restaurant chains to tinker with innovation.

Shares of the world's biggest fast food chain by revenue rose more than 5 percent as global same - restaurant sales topped Wall Street forecasts, driven by the strength in mature markets especially the United Kingdom and Germany.

The restaurant can lean on the boomers, who will stick with the chain as they age, while it works to attract younger diners with innovative menu updates and healthier - seeming offerings.

But it's also an effort to reposition the chain as more of a full - service restaurant.

Are you using your position and resources as the world's largest restaurant chain to improve our food system and food culture?

As a restaurant chain, Starbucks has advantages over traditional retailers — consumers have leave their house to enjoy a drink like a Frappuccino unless they make one themselves.

Urban Outfitters acquired a pizzeria chain last year as part of a plan to build complexes that feature a variety of its stores — it also owns Anthropologie and Free People — restaurants, and event spaces for concerts and the like.

A fast food seafood joint, Nordsee is one of the oldest fast food chains in the world, and originally started out as a 19th century fish supply shop before settling into the restaurant business.