Tony Townley, a cofounder of the Zaxby’s chain, has joined investors in backing the three-unit George-based Maepole concept. The Athens, Ga.-based Maepole was launch in 2018 by fine-dining chef Peter ...

Hollywood comedians/actors Cedric the Entertainer (“Barbershop”) and Anthony Anderson (“Blackish”) have teamed up to open a fast-causal barbecue restaurant together in Los Angeles. AC Barbeque, which ...

Chef Dominique Crenn has created an afternoon tea menu for her Café Dior, the foodservice component of the Christian Dior boutique in Dallas. Crenn, who will be inducted into the MenuMasters Hall of ...

To honor its 40 th anniversary, Esparza’s Restaurante Mexicano in Grapevine, Texas, tapped into its many longtime employees to do social-media Facebook posts, according to owner Steve Brown. Brown, ...

Chef Eric LeVine was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., but he has spent much of his career operating restaurants in suburban Long Island. That changed last month when he debuted two restaurants at ...

Twenty-seven years after making its debut, III Forks is reinventing itself. The steakhouse opened in Dallas in 1998, occupying a massive space measuring more than 20,000 square feet until 2020, when ...

Lots of LTOs and permanent menu items launched recently, as innovation accelerates. Bret Thorn, senior food & beverage editor of Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality, started with the ...

Bite-sized and built for snacking, popcorn chicken is making a comeback on restaurant menus with new global spins and bold coatings. Popcorn chicken’s crispy texture and grab-and-go format make it a ...

Overthrow Hospitality, which operates 10 vegan bars and restaurants in New York City’s East Village and one in Los Angeles, has moved and reenvisioned its natural wine bar concept Soda Club. Now in a ...

A division of FB Society plans a 35,000-square-foot food offering, called Shaver Hall, in New York City’s former Lord & Taylor building, the company said. FB Society said Shaver Hall, which is ...

Thompson Restaurants, a division of Thompson Hospitality, is about to launch its Thompson Table Rewards Program, a new loyalty initiative. The Reston, Va.-based company, which owns such restaurants as ...

Tory McPhail, who spent 19 years as executive chef of New Orleans culinary landmark Commander’s Palace, has returned to the South, this time to the Florida panhandle, where he serves as culinary ...