All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 6 2007 // Jeri Wasco, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, visited a Hyattsville, Maryland shopping center recently and found curb ramps that were too steep and no elevators going to the second floor.She filed a federal...
Aug 20 2007 // Wineries are drinking to their good fortune, with 13 consecutive years of sales growth and each acre of grapes producing between $15,000 and $75,000 in gross sales value, according to wine industry consultant Jon...
Aug 20 2007 // Wineries are drinking to their good fortune, with 13 consecutive years of sales growth and each acre of grapes producing between $15,000 and $75,000 in gross sales value, according to wine industry consultant Jon...
Aug 17 2007 // A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty this week to his role in a multistate scheme in which prosecutors say he and his wife intentionally ate glass at restaurants and collected more than $200,000 in compensation.Ronald Evano,...
Jul 23 2007 // An insurer has agreed to pay $20 million in what is believed to be the state’s richest settlement of a bad faith claim.According to the plaintiff’s attorney, Robert Mongeluzzi of Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett &...
Jul 19 2007 // Oklahoma City, Okla.-based Sonic Restaurants Inc. is seeking more than $750,000 in a lawsuit against Osram Sylvania Inc. claiming that lighted signs at some of the company’s drive-in restaurants have been damaged by...
Jul 9 2007 // Meteorologists are reviewing radar data and videotapes to determine if a tornado tore off part of a restaurant roof during an intense weekend storm in Port Orange, Fla.. No one was hurt when the storm ripped off part of...
Jul 2 2007 // An insurer has agreed to pay $20 million in what is believed to be the state’s richest settlement of a bad faith claim.According to the plaintiff’s attorney, Robert Mongeluzzi of Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett &...
Jul 2 2007 // Today’s complex restaurant environment needs the right list of insurance ingredientsWhen people get to talking about America’s food hot spots, the same handful of cities come up again and again, including New...
Jul 2 2007 // When people get to talking about America’s food hot spots, the same handful of cities come up again and again, including New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans, the epicenter of Cajun Cuisine. But in the Midwest,...
Jun 28 2007 // One Manhattan restaurant is serving up an intellectual property lawsuit, saying a rival seafood bar run by a former protege copies “each and every element” of its business.Rebecca Charles, who opened the Pearl...
Jun 26 2007 // Ron Klimek, vice president and branch manager of Western Security Surplus Texas, announced his firm recently negotiated an exclusive contract for a new Tavern, Bar and Night Club Program, which is now available in...
Jun 12 2007 // It took O’Charley’s regional operations director in Hattiesburg, Miss., most of a week to get in touch with the restaurant chain’s Nashville, Tenn. headquarters after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf...
Jun 8 2007 // Chicago, Ill.-based Geo. F. Brown & Sons, Inc., a national MGA/Wholesaler, recently announced the debut of “Quote on Tap,” an online tool that reduces the quoting and binding process for their liquor...
Jun 6 2007 // Maine tenagers who are used to chatting while driving may have to break the habit and leave their cellular phones alone while they’re behind the wheel.A bill, which has won all-but-final Senate approval after it was...
May 29 2007 // The father of Josh Hancock filed suit, claiming a restaurant provided drinks to the St. Louis Cardinal’s relief pitcher even though he was intoxicated prior to the crash that killed him.The suit, filed in St. Louis...
May 16 2007 // A Louisiana state judge has ruled that an insurance company cannot use the so-called “absolute pollution exclusion” to deny its corporate policyholder coverage for claims alleging that bodily injury was caused...
Apr 23 2007 // A Putnam County, New York bar owner has been charged with allowing an off-duty bartender to drink and drive, resulting in a head-on crash that killed her and another woman.Sandra Longchamps, a bar manager at The Paddock...
Apr 9 2007 // A Canadian man has been extradited to the United States to face trial on charges that he swindled $7 million from the victims of a fraudulent commercial insurance policy scheme, Acting New York Insurance Superintendent...
Apr 9 2007 // A Canadian man has been extradited to the U.S. to face trial on charges that he swindled $7 million from the victims of a fraudulent commercial insurance policy scheme, according to Acting New York Insurance Superintendent...