The bill, which is expected to be signed by President Obama next week, will provide the nation’s restaurants and small businesses with tax relief and assistance in gaining access to capital.

Casual-dining concept agrees to develop and open as many as 200 new Lime Fresh Mexican Grill locations throughout the Eastern U.S.

Chain will participate in Share Our Strength’s annual Great American Dine Out, a week-long national restaurant event in cities across the U.S.

Salad option was the winner of Saladworks’ “Create-Your-Own Powerhouse Salad” contest.

Three new Smashchicken sandwich recipes and four new Smashsalad recipes hit the menuboard at burger chain.

QSR‘s executive idea exchange launches in Atlanta, with top industry experts sharing ever-important tips on how to improve the quick-service industry.

Chain signs franchise agreement with Alex Patel to open a Manhattan Bagel restaurant in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania.

Experts believe Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) are the smartest investments for quick-serve brands looking to go international.

Dallas-based advertising agency LOOMIS will help build momentum as the chain enters expansion phase.

Bagel chain announces partnership with Starlight Children’s Foundation to sponsor Fun Center mobile entertainment units in children’s hospitals.

From his Colorado office, Boston Market CEO Lane Cardwell is targeting some free agents—dining free agents, that is. “There are some customers out there open to where they’ll be eating, and Boston Market is happy to capture that business,” Cardwell says. Cardwell is referring specifically to the significant chunk of diners who are in limbo […]

Partnership with Bridging Culture Worldwide will help burger brand try to sign first South Korean multiunit franchise development agreement in 2011.

Greek fast-casual chain will undergo a makeover under new ownership, climbing out of bankruptcy with an increased focus on food, service, and store ambiance.

Get a glimpse of what an expert panel at QSR‘s Dine America conference in September will share about how to structure your prices in a post-recession world.

In 2001 famed French chef Daniel Boulud rocked the restaurant world—and he did it with the most unlikely of dishes: the hamburger. Before it became a global phenomenon, the db Burger—a sirloin stuffed with braised short ribs and foie gras on a Parmesan bun that sells for a cool $32—was unlike any burger creation that […]

Tony Shure and Colin McCabe, best friends and business partners, go way back. They went to the same school in New York City. Friendly but distant at school, they grew close after finding themselves, by pure coincidence, both freshmen at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. One of the things they had in common was […]

Lean and Mean In the past six months, Ed Frechette has noticed a trend. “People on Wall Street are coming to Au Bon Pain for meetings and interviews,” says Frechette, senior vice president of marketing for the Boston-based chain, which has locations in New York City. Financial executives are not the only ones looking to […]

Gary Worthington grew up inhaling freshly baked bread in the kitchen of his childhood home in Grantsville, Utah, a small farming community 40 miles west of Salt Lake City. Decades later, Worthington still enjoys the comforting aroma, though now it comes from his own business. Worthington and his family operate Kneaders Bakery & Café, a […]