restaurants

Resturants are hard work, for owners, managers and staff. And they can be a risky business, with a failure rate of about 60 percent within the first three years. But there are also eating establishments whose popularity have turned them into major companies and household names, both in the U.S...

Wendy's (NASDAQ: WEN) may describe itself as “the world's third-largest quick-service hamburger company,” but the Dublin, Ohio-based company has been growing and nibbling away at the market share of fast-food giant McDonald's (NYSE: MCD). According to the restaurant industry web site QSR, 2013...

Last-minute shoppers and diners enjoyed the luxury of some of the nation’s biggest retailers being open on Christmas day. An estimated fifty 50 million Americans took advantage of these openings, giving the already-inflated retail sector a boost. According to SpendingPulse, retail sales from...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has filed for a patent application for an ordering and reservation system that could work with various Apple iDevices. According to the Patently Apple web site, the company's patent “generally relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media...

Applebee's, owned by DineEquity (NYSE: DIN), announced this week that tablets will be installed in every table of its 1,860 locations in the United States by end of 2014. Over 100,000 Intel (NADDAQ: INTC)-backed tablets from Presto (NYSE: NPK) will be be used by customers for ordering food and...

In February of this year Landry's, which operates McCormick & Schmicks, Chart House and several other restaurant chains, made an offer of $22 a share for Ark Restaurant Corp. (NASDAQ: ARKR). Ark Restaurants, which owns and operates 19 restaurants and bars, along with 22 fast food concepts...

For some time now, fast food stocks havebeen a relatively safe stock bet for investors.  But we've recently seen many of the top fast food brands overhauling their images in a number of ways, not the least of which has been revamping their menus from top to bottom. Some have even taken the...

As tempting as it is to start plowing into names like P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Bob Evans Farms, Inc., Jack in the Box Inc., The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated, and Brinker International, Inc., it's not quite time just yet. Though these small cap restaurants were among the best small cap...