It served meat loaf and sliced turkey much the way Boston Market was doing nationally.
Elop is a well-seasoned exec who did previous stints at Juniper, Adobe, Macromedia, Lotus and Boston Market.
In 1998, Boston Chicken filed for bankruptcy and was later purchased by Sun Capital Partners and reborn as Boston Market.
Boston Market has taken a similar approach, but the tone of its campaign may prove more polarizing to its clientele.
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Ansin has also brought this approach to his native Boston market, where he currently operates NBC and CW affiliate stations.
Beckman said Boston Chicken -- which operates restaurants called Boston Market -- voluntarily performs four random sample tests for the bacteria.
The future of Boston Market, bought out of bankruptcy, is in limbo.
Before becoming Pfizer's chief lawyer in 2002, he was general counsel at McDonald's, where he'd been entrusted with turning around the Boston Market chain.
Incredibly popular restaurants have a tendency to drop out of favor, Einhorn noted, displaying a slide full of previously explosive companies like Boston Market and TCBY.
In the past three years, the company has bought all or part of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Donatos Pizza, and Boston Market, all U.S.-based, and British Aroma Grill.
When roast-chicken restaurant Boston Market started expanding its Boston Chicken shops in the city, he had Gristedes start advertising Philadelphia Chicken and selling it at a lower price.
McDonald's quickly learned from that one restaurant what it took Boston Market 1, 200 to learn: Food and labor costs involved in elaborately prepared take-out meals make for measly profits.
In the 1990s, Boston Market was then-known as Boston Chicken, a home-style buffet eatery that had a flourishing stock, multiple locations, and fervent growth, all masking the poor franchise sales made yearly.
Before becoming Pfizer's chief lawyer in 2002, he was general counsel at McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ), where he'd been entrusted with turning around the Boston Market chain.
For the enthusiast who wants to expand the collection at home, the variety of tequila brands in the Boston market (admittedly small compared to New York or Chicago) has grown impressively, even just over the past six months.
These include Chipotle Grill and Boston Market, both owned by McDonald's, and Baja Fresh Mexican Grill, owned by Wendy's (nyse: WEN - news - people ) (all U.S. only, although Boston Market is in Australia and Canada as well).
High revenue teams in New York, Los Angeles and Boston drive the market, pricing the Kansas Citys and Pittsburghs out of the picture.
"It's not going to be the Steve Jobs show that generates headlines worldwide, " John Jackson, an analyst at Boston-based market research firm CCS Insight who attended the keynote, said in a recent interview.
The Boston snow indicator is a market theory that posits that a white Christmas in Boston will cause stock prices to climb.
Karl Case, a professor of economics at Wellesley College, points to the luxury condo market in Boston.
Mining for gold in a smaller, less competitive market, Boston's dealmakers cut rivals in all the time.
For a while, it appeared that Indianapolis-based Guidant (nyse: GDT - news - people ) would get its own drug-coated stent to market before Boston Scientific.
The historic marketplaces of Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, and Boston Common (America's oldest public park and the starting point of Boston's Freedom Trail) are all within walking distance.
In March Dalbar, a financial services market research firm based in Boston, released a study of equity fund performance over the 20 years through last December.
But in Boston, where Harvard and MIT dominate the MBA market, a lesser-known rival has differentiated itself by taking Mr Garten's advice to heart.
Last week, the black box investors at Boston quant fund ClearStream Investments said the big emerging market exchange traded funds were all a buy.
The Boston-based company accused Google of using its market power to pressure smartphone makers into dropping Skyhook's location-sensing technology in favor of Google's own, competing service.
The wizard inside the black box over at Boston quant shop ClearStream Investments has opted in to emerging market exchange traded funds after being cash only for nearly a month.
In Tokyo, Boston and Amsterdam Goodbaby has 16 engineers, designers and market researchers toiling away to produce new models of high-end strollers for brands such as Silver Cross, Quinny and Maxi-Cosi.
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