There are many approaches to naming a new restaurant, but the owners of #getfried Fry Café have stumbled upon something unique—a Twitter-inspired name they feel is every bit as golden as their warm, crunchy, loaded-up French fries.
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Domino's, a massive investor in high-tech delivery equipment, is doubling down on its super-cool, leading edge DXP delivery vehicles that seek to improve the pizza delivery process.
Argentina native Noemi Grupenmager has never liked body hair, with the exception of her head, eyebrows and eyelashes. But her quest to find the perfect waxing solution cost her not an arm but almost a leg, when it took two days and two times the fee for a spa to wax her daughter's legs.
There have been a lot of ironies in Elena Linares' life—the most noteworthy of which is as a former battered wife, she created a 1940s-style barbershop, RazzleDazzle Barbershop, where men are pampered while being titillated by scantily clothed beauticians.
When adult son Ben was in grade school, he and his classmates were tasked to write a report on a relative or ancestor who had immigrated to the United States. Luckily for him, his grandmother had known her great-grandfather Andrew P. Johnson. And even better, my mom's older cousin was his grandchild and knew well the story of his arrival in the U.S., so Ben set out to interview her.
Becky Finger owns and operates 20 units of Once Upon A Child, Plato's Closet and Clothes Mentor in and around Cincinnati. Like many operators, she finds her biggest challenge in the people business.
Eli Ailloni, 12, strolled into the Rita's Café in Bloomington, Minnesota, stowed his backpack, and after parking himself, headphones on head, at a table by the window, tucked into an Italian ice topped with custard that was on the house.
Complacency is the enemy, while changing with the times is the necessity. It's a message that permeates the restaurant industry and a lesson Red Robin President Denny Marie Post knows well.
CEO Carl Howard turned around America's largest fast-casual Italian chain by changing everything, even bringing back the beloved breadstick ladies. Franchisee interest is starting to pick up again.
A major health study vindicates vaping just as government action decimates the industry's mom-and-pop shops. Can the e-cigs business survive, and in what form?