What's Hot in Ice Cream?
May 1, 2005, By Bob Hirschfeld
On an unusually cold spring evening, chilled customers queued up on New York's 42nd Street to pay $5 or more for a Cold Stone Creamery ice cream confection....
Setting The Menu
Feb 1, 2004, By Joy Armstrong
Restaurants and retail complement one another like a fine red wine and a juicy steak. Just ask any mall owner who has watched droves of stuffed customers...
COSI A CASUAL DINING CASUALTY?
May 1, 2003, Curt Hazlett
Like a latte whose foam has gone flat, the once-hot Cosi caf chain has lost some of its flavor. From its opening in 1996, the New York-based eatery drew...
Outback comes to Manhattan
Jun 10, 2002, —staff and wire reports
Outback Steakhouse franchisees Forrest and Kimberly Smith are bringing the popular Orlando-based restaurant chain to Manhattan. The Smiths recently opened...
Restaurant Woos Guests in Tropical Oasis
Jun 1, 1999, Elaine DeSimone,
Themed restaurants have been touted for their striking interior designs, entertainment elements and destination appeal. But they also have been criticized...
Restaurants tinker with their traditional appeal
Jun 1, 1998, Jenny King
No one disputes that the restaurant industry is in a state of change. But is the change evolutionary or revolutionary?In one segment, there is the evolution...
Aiming For a Perfect Score
May 1, 1998
The Clubhouse is looking to sink a hole-in-one in the minds of its customers by making them "feel like a million bucks" every time they walk in the door.The...
Restaurant Marketplace Has Big Appetite
May 1, 1998, Martin Sinderman
The competition is stiff, but the potential for growth still exists in today's restaurant marketplace. And as the nation's appetite for eating out increases,...
Airport restaurant provides an unearthly lighting challenge
Sep 1, 1997
Built in the early 1960s as part of an overall $50 million "Los Angeles Jet Age Terminal Construction Project," the LAX Theme Building was a vision and...
