June 19, 2013

Corner Bakery Cafe

Noodles & Co. chef Tessa Stamper works in a test kitchen at the company’s headqu
June 2013

R&D experts from around the industry pull back the curtain on how they perfect their signature menu items.

Corner Bakery's new menu items use fresh ingredients to offer premium quality.

Corner Bakery Café’s new menu items push fast-casual boundaries.

Salad entree options are becoming more popular on restaurant menus.
March 2013

Salads mix wide variety of ingredients to tempt diners.

Just in time to help guests snap out of their long winter daze, Corner Bakery Cafe will debut the newest member of its signature grilled panini lineup, the Turkey Monterey Panini.

Fresh off the heels of a record-breaking year, Corner Bakery Cafe plans to significantly expand its presence in the Northeast by opening approximately 18 new restaurants in the Boston area.

The company recently sold out markets in neighboring Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New...

Corner Bakery Cafe announces plans to open 16 new restaurants in six counties in the Greater New York City area as part of a recent multi-unit agreement with CBCWSNY LLC. The group of veteran restaurant operators plans to open its first restaurant in 2013 and the remaining sites over the next...

Corner Bakery Cafe’s renewed emphasis on franchise growth paid off immensely in 2012 with the signing of 10 new Area Development Agreements, more than doubling its best previous year. The new agreements added 125 cafes, raising the total to 288 cafes under development, as the company moves...

Corner Bakery Cafe, the fast casual bakery cafe known for its freshly made breakfast scramblers, signature grilled panini, mouthwatering sweets, hand-roasted coffees, and catering for any occasion, announces the company has signed a franchise agreement to open its first restaurants in Nassau...

Last month, 8,292 restaurants of every type, their employees, and customers came together to help end childhood hunger in the U.S. by participating in Share Our Strength’s Dine Out For No Kid Hungry fundraising program. Together, their generosity raised more than $5 million, more than...

October 2012

Bread isn’t just the staff of life. It’s the food—in a wide variety of forms and styles—that helps drive the limited-service restaurant industry.

Whether they’re traditional breads, buns, tortillas, bagels, pitas, or flatbreads, these carriers are filling the...

Recognized as the authority for hand-crafted, grilled-to-order panini, Corner Bakery Cafe has mastered the art of grill marks. So after more than 20 years of showing its “grill,” the popular restaurant wants to see yours – and will award five smiling guests with free panini for...

Corner Bakery Cafe, the fast-casual bakery cafe known for its ingredient-inspired menu, made fresh to order for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and catering for any occasion, has announced expansion plans for Portland, Oregon; Minneapolis-St.Paul, Minnesota; and Orlando, Florida.

Corner Bakery Café announced the results of its annual...

Franchise and restaurant veteran Gary Price, with more than two decades of experience in senior management positions for leading hospitality and franchise organizations, has been named president of Corner Bakery Cafe.

Price, who will be responsible for overall strategy and growth, joins...

Corner Bakery Cafe, the rapidly expanding fast-casual restaurant franchise, has added Nick Booras and Gregg Koffler as directors of franchise sales.

Booras and Koffler are the latest to join the company's growing development sales team in support of Corner Bakery's plans to double...

August 2012

Want to know which 15 brands are knocking on the QSR 50's door? Some are old favorites, others are new to the list, but they're all trying their hardest to climb their way into the Top 50 ranks.

51 McAlister’s Deli rank last year: 52...

One of the most anticipated menu items at Corner Bakery Café, the BBLT, is back for a limited time. The Bacon-Bacon-Local Tomato sandwich has double the bacon and is paired with seasonal, fresh tomatoes.

Each summer Corner Bakery Cafe finds the biggest, reddest, roundest tomatoes from...

June 2012

“Growth has killed many brands.”

Those words, from Corner Bakery Café’s CEO Mike Hislop, sum up a problem that several quick-serve CEOs face: Expanding a business is a natural desire for most executives, but growing it beyond one or two stores without compromising its...

Corner Bakery Cafe is ready to “Feed the Day” in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, with a new cafe opening on June 6.

Whether it’s to discover the made-to-order Anaheim Scrambler for breakfast, the signature Chicken Pomodori Panini for lunch, the mouthwatering Pesto Cavatappi...

Millennials are unique. They communicate differently, are self-expressive, confident, liberal, upbeat, and open to change. But marketing to them can be a challenge.

This group (ages 19-34) has a distinct perspective on dining occasions, placing more value on attributes like social...

Corner Bakery Cafe has signed an agreement with Yum & Chill Restaurant Group to bring 30 locations to Florida and New Jersey over the next five to seven years. Plans call for 20 cafes in New Jersey and 10 cafes in the Tampa/St. Petersburg market.

The new restaurants will...

Share Our Strength’s Dine Out For No Kid Hungry, one of the nation’s fastest-growing and most successful cause-related restaurant-marketing programs, announces that restaurants across the country and their...

After a season of sweet treats, savory snacks, and hearty comfort foods, it can be a challenge switching to less-indulgent, healthier options in the New Year. To help guests put the flavor back in healthy living, Corner Bakery Cafe introduced a Facebook program inviting fans to kick off the New...