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AFA Foods blames 'pink slime' controversy for bankruptcy filing
For a controversy cooked up over a product that’s been around for years, the recent outcry over "pink slime" seems to be hitting many businesses where it hurts, most recently causing beef products company AFA Foods Inc. to declare Chapter 11...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Companies and Corporations, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Rubio's shifts focus to premium, healthful, sustainable seafood
Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill is a lot of things: a $4-a-taco chain that wants to explore premium ingredients. A San Diego-born business eyeing the international market. A onetime maker of a cheeseburger-taco that’s now all about sustainable seafood...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Tacos, Restaurants, Companies and Corporations, Hamburgers
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Pizza Hut launches cheeseburger-ringed pizza in Middle East
Restaurant sales may be recovering nicely in the U.S., but eateries are increasingly looking abroad, where diners are more accepting of innovations such as Pizza Hut’s new cheeseburger-crusted pies in the Middle East. Think it’s a joke? A...
Tags: Pies and Tarts, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Heart Attack Grill, Hamburgers, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Benihana restaurant company taken private for $296 million
Benihana Inc., the Japanese-style and sushi restaurant company known for slicing, dicing and frying food in front of diners, will be sold to a private equity group for $296 million. Angelo, Gordon & Co. plans to pay Benihana shareholders $16.30 per share...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Benihana Incorporated, Companies and Corporations, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Court ruling could expel high-achieving charter school
L.A. NOWA court ruling has invalidated the lease of a high-performing charter school in Glassell Park, threatening it with closure when the school year ends in June. The Alliance Environmental Science and Technology School, whose students have some of the... -
Food FYI: The hidden costs of cheap shrimp
Daily DishCRUSTACEAN FRUSTRATIONS Using aquaculture to mass-produce shrimp has dropped prices to all-time lows, says Good magazine. The bad news? "Increasing evidence suggests that the savings to consumers are fueled by human rights abuses and environmental... -
Restaurateurs living in fear of rising gas prices
Mounting gas prices still haven’t made much of a dent in eateries’ bottom lines – but they will, and soon, according to the National Restaurant Assn. At this rate, the cost of fuel will quickly eat up the extra cash that consumers use...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Consumer Confidence, Lifestyle and Leisure, Consumers
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Burger King makes like McDonald's with revamped menu, advertising
Burger King’s strategy for success? Be more like McDonald’s. And maybe toss some tropical mango into the drinks. Among the slew of new offerings available at the fast-food chain: garden salads, snack wraps, real fruit smoothies and frappes....
Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Restaurants, Salma Hayek, Hamburgers
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Burger King to go public -- again
The King wants his crown back: Fast-food chain Burger King is continuing its reinvention by planning to go public – again. Within the next three months, the hamburger giant said it will re-list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The last...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Advertising, Restaurants, Salma Hayek
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Warm winter, Chicken McBites keep McDonald's profit up
McDonald’s Corp., the world’s largest hamburger chain, keeps churning out a profit – this time due to unexpectedly balmy weather and new products such as oatmeal and Chicken McBites. The company netted $1.27 billion in income, or $1....
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Marketing, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Hamburgers, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Stephen Colbert, Herman Cain team up for S.C. campaign rally
It was perhaps inevitable that Stephen Colbert -- fake conservative, cable TV personality, and the most famous Charlestonian since that guy from Hootie and the Blowfish -- would return to South Carolina to make a little mischief before the state's...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Stephen Colbert, Companies and Corporations, Companies and Corporations, Newt Gingrich
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Wendy's dethrones Burger King but Five Guys grows fastest
The restaurant industry’s royal line of succession has shifted, with Wendy’s usurping Burger King as the second-largest sales-getter behind McDonald’s.
In its annual ranking of U.S. restaurants, research group Technomic Inc. placed...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Panera Bread Company, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Companies and Corporations
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