How’s this for brand leverage? Tourists still flock by the thousands to shop catalog giant L.L. Bean’s flagship retail store in Freeport, ME. Now Linda Bean, an experienced restaurant operator and entrepreneur deluxe, has opened Linda Bean’s Maine...
It was one thing when bogus wild salmon turned up in New York City. But now researchers have found farm-raised Atlantic salmon menued as wild caught Pacific salmon at restaurants in Tacoma, WA, home port for a number of actual wild salmon...
Good food in airports? Not bloody likely, you say. But High Flying Foods aims to change that. Brothers Glenn and Garret Meyers, San Francisco-area restaurant operators, hatched the idea in 2000 after one especially abysmal airport meal. They...
Ever think of preselling special meal packages online to help raise cash to open your new restaurant? Chef/owner John Brandt-Lee tried this tactic and got 112 customers to respond, enabling his Avalon Pasta Bistro to open in Downington, PA last...
We already know that reality show America’s Next Great Restaurant winning concept Soul Daddy is the fastest chain restaurant failure in history. Now, courtesy of an SEC filing, we’re getting an inkling of how much money was lost in the process, at...
Boston's Barbara Lynch has an eye for opportunities, and the guts to pursue them.