Recent News

Famous Dave’s of America, Inc. President and CEO David Goronkin announced today that Backyard BBQ, Inc., has purchased the right to franchise a total of seven Famous Dave’s Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que® restaurants in Orange County, California.

Tim Hortons Inc. today announced preliminary same-store sales increases of 8.7 percent at restaurants in Canada and 9.8 percent at restaurants in the United States for the first quarter, which ended on Sunday, April 2, 2006.

Charlesbank Capital Partners LLC and two other investors completed their acquisition of Del Taco, the second-largest Mexican fast-food chain in the nation, Boston Business Journal reports.

Taco Bell and FOX Sports have reached a four-year sponsorship agreement, making Taco Bell the “Official Quick Service Restaurant” of collegiate football’s prestigious Bowl Championship Series (BCS).

Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF) has announced the recipients of the 2006 Trailblazer Award, Emerging Leader Award, Director’s Award and President’s Award at the WFF Annual Leadership Development Conference in Dallas, Texas.

Burger King Corporation entices restaurant guests with two new additions to its breakfast menu, the French Toast Sandwich and CHEESY TOTS™.

Yum! Brands, Inc., owner of the KFC brand, and Rostik Restaurants Limited, operator of Russia’s top chicken restaurant chain, are opening today in Moscow the first of many co-branded KFC-Rostik’s restaurants.

Who is America’s greatest natural athlete of all-time? That’s the question Arby’s is asking consumers with its new natural athletes poll.

McDonald’s has announced its inaugural “Global Casting Call” to find a few new faces for its packaging.

Fresh Concepts, owner and
operator of the 15-unit restaurant chain Fresh City, has remodeled its Boston,
MA Landmark Center location making the look and feel reflect the company’s
casual cafe atmosphere.

Papa John’s to be exclusive pizza vendor at Six Flags parks, Business First of Louisville reports.

Submarine sandwich chain Blimpie is celebrating 42 years with a new logo and promotion.

Barry Maring of Northland Restaurant
Group, Inc. is directing his entrepreneurial talent toward developing Taco Del
Mar restaurants.

FiberGel Technologies, a
subsidiary of Circle Group Holdings, announced today the launching
of Z-Trim Plus, a new Z-Trim product line formulated to make specific high fat
foods healthier for the institutional and food service markets.

Mrs. Fields Famous Brands is adding a new treat to its store menus with the introduction of its new line of Breezer® smoothies.

Pizza Hut’s largest franchisee, NPC International Inc., settled with the U.S. Justice Department over alleged violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act at its restaurants, the agency said Tuesday, MarketWatch reports today.

Almost 20 years after the company’s founding, the 63-year-old founder of Back Yard Burgers is planning to step aside from day-to-day operations in his current role as
chairman and CEO.

Shares of Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons Inc. soared Friday in their trading debut on the New York Stock Exchange, the Associated Press reports.

Innovative Beverage Concepts, Inc of Aliso Viejo, California,
has launched the 1st USDA organic certified frappes and Fair Trade
Certified mocha frappe to the market.

The Arby’s fast food chain has followed McDonald’s lead and started offering premium coffee made by a Denver company owned by the rock band Opie Gone Bad’s lead singer, Jake Schroeder, The Denver Business Journal reports.

Yum Brands Inc., whose corporate debt climbed out of junk status two years ago, on Thursday was put into position for another upgrade by a major rating agency, the Associated Press reports.

Taco Del Mar said it’s signed a deal with Ranbir Singh of Kirpal Group to sell franchises and develop up to 40 franchises in San Bernardino and Riverside counties in Southern California, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported yesterday.

Good Times Restaurants Inc. announces the launch of their new website as a part of a marketing strategy enabling them to better reach their core audience.

Sbarro, the
quick-service Italian restaurant company, today announced
that it has named Randy M. Clifton as president, franchising of North America.

Sailormen, Inc., the largest domestic franchisee of Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits locations, has officially raised over $1 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in the past four years through the annual “Appetite for the Cure” coupon card promotion fundraiser and the annual Sailormen Golf Classic.

Quiznos and JPMorgan Partners, a private equity affiliate of JPMorgan Chase & Co., announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which JPMorgan Partners will become a significant ownership partner in Quiznos. Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Burger King Corporation announced today it will broaden its involvement in professional sports by entering the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series™.

Cereality Cereal Bar & Cafe today
announced that it has filed a federal lawsuit in United States District Court,
Southern District of Ohio-Eastern Division against Cereals, LLC, doing
business as “Cerealicious.”