How glamorous is the perception of full-service restaurants and the people who work in them? Television networks can't get enough of them. The latest entry, Celebrity Cooking Showdown, should have been the most...
Wal-Mart has taken plenty of heat for its employment policies over the past year-and-a-half. A lot of it comes from activists, who complain about low wages, unpaid overtime, denial of the right to organize and more...
Chipotle's stock was so hot its initial offering has already been enshrined alongside that of Boston Chicken (up 143 percent on its first day of trading in 1993) in the IPO Hall of Fame. Which shows you how big a...
You can't knock the marketing mileage Subway has gotten out of Fogle, who shed 245 pounds while eating a mostly Subway diet several years ago. But Subway's latest ploy to leverage the notoriety of its living weight...
Corky & Lenny's is a venerable Jewish delicatessen that has been an institution on Cleveland's East Side for more than 33 years. It's such a fixture in the community that even a salmonella outbreak that produced 23...
Abramoff opened Signatures in Feb. 2002 to critical acclaim. Located on Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House, the restaurant quickly became a power dining spot. Lobbyists and politicians...
The Lexus people get a good marketing bang for the bucks they're spending in Memphis. They get to park a brand-new Lexus in the front of the restaurant, to change all the signage, and to plaster "Lexus Lounge" logos...
REFLECTION: A domed mirror installation by artist Alyson Shotz brightens Table 1280's dining room at the Woodruff. WHO'S THE BOSS?: Once a chef/owner, Shaun Doty is a chef/employee now. But his new job is a step...
Fenson, who turns 38 this month, has been an operator since 1996, when he acquired his original restaurant, Dave's Pizza. It's located in Bemidji, MN, a town about 60 miles from the Canadian border that's famous as...