He also owns restaurant chains, department stores, construction companies, banks and bakeries and cigarette manufacturers.
Large restaurant chains have a staff person who specializes in acquisition and maintenance of liquor licenses.
She also presided over the spinning-off of various restaurant chains, which allowed PepsiCo to focus.
The Banqueting House is one of the first restaurant chains to offer a shark fin-free menu.
Shen Feiyu runs one of Shanghai's largest restaurant chains and is dabbling in economy hotels.
These may include car dealerships, regional colleges, regional banks, restaurant chains and retailers with meaningful ad budgets.
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In an email to Gopnik, I confessed my love for restaurant chains: Starbucks, In-N-Out, California Pizza Kitchen.
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One reason is that they and other tourists bring in their wake tawdry souvenir shops and fast-food restaurant chains.
Same-store sales are a key metric for restaurant chains by stripping away volatile figures from new or recently closed locations.
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The findings might make restaurant chains feel better about efforts around the U.S. to get them to post calorie information.
Larger bets run the gamut of industries, including print media, online education, hand tools, restaurant chains and, of course, software.
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On the other hand, of the four restaurant chains that have successfully gone public so far this year, three have performed well.
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The analysis examined restaurant servings and traffic from market-research firm NPD Group Inc. and publicly available sales data from the restaurant chains.
The other threat: The big restaurant chains are growing, too, and fast.
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Besides, the Tower would only be bought by large restaurant chains.
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With its acquisition of Cifra, Wal-Mart inherited six different formats, including apparel and restaurant chains, that cater to the disparate income segments of the Mexican population.
Combs continued on, from his early days running Bad Boy Records, to become a cottage industry with everything from clothing lines to restaurant chains, not to mention music-making.
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Certainly, automakers, homebuilders, restaurant chains and marginal retailers are suspect.
The authors say banks, retailers, and restaurant chains set national pay levels but then allow regional variations to take into account recruitment rates and the local cost of living.
"You know you've got a big idea when you don't have to explain it, " said Creed, who has been with the restaurant chains since they were owned by PepsiCo.
Nineteen restaurant chains offering kids meals, or 56%, fail to offer any meals meeting CSPI's standards, the report says, and nine do not have one meal meeting the Kids LiveWell standards.
Yum, operator of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC restaurant chains, forecast a 4% fall in fourth-quarter China same-store sales, an effective measure of financial health, as well as popularity, because it strips away volatile results from newly opened or closed locations.
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Before Tuesday's vote, Mar cited a study released this week by Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, which examined 12 popular restaurant chains and found only 12 out of more than 3, 000 kids' meal combinations met the nutritional guidelines for preschool-age children.
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The operator of Taco Bell and KFC restaurant chains has made its Pizza Hut chain into a nice restaurant in the country, deemed by some contemporary Chinese to be a great place for a first date, while introducing products such as fried dough sticks, egg tarts and shrimp burgers to suit local tastes.
Per-restaurant sales went down at chains whose servings of lower-calorie foods declined during that period.
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Buyers includ large-scale professionals at grocery chains, independent restaurant owners, and you and me, buying for our home grocery needs.
The company, spun off in 1997 by PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ) and now the world's largest restaurant operator in terms of units, has restaurants in five major chains including Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in more than 100 countries.
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