- Table Turns
Vince Runco was named chief executive officer of Plano, Texas-based Metromedia Restaurant Group and president of its casual-dining division, succeeding Jeff Moody , who left the company. Runco previously served as executive vice president of COO for the casual-dining division. … Kim Ellis (r.) joined Panda Restaurant Group, Rosemead, Calif., ......
- Doing It Better
Despite the fires in San Diego, business was good for Tustin, Calif.-based Mimis Cafe. According to Vice President of Marketing Lowell Petrie, sales had climbed 50 percent among the family-dining chain's four San Diego outposts by the time firefighters gained control of the blaze that destroyed 362 houses within the ......
- Smoked out
The new ban, which took effect Jan. 1, is an extension of a 1994 law aimed at protecting workers from secondhand smoke. As such, it has been welcome news among employees. "They love it," says Bryan Chan, general manager of San Diego's casual Brigantine chain.
- Empire builder
Who: Ralph Rubio, president, c.e.o., chairman and co-founder of Rubio's Restaurants Inc., operators of Rubio's Baja Grill Why the restaurant business? When I was a freshman at San Diego State, my roommate came home one afternoon and said, "Hey, I just got a job bussing tables..." I started bussing tables ......
- Golden Corral readies entry into L.A.
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Buffet style restaurant chain faces local competition A buffet-style restaurant chain with more than $500 million in annual revenues and 425 outlets nationwide plans to soon lock horns with Sizzler International Inc. and other buffet-style eateries in the Southland. Raleigh, N.C.-based Golden Corral plans to open 79 franchised eateries in ......
- Raise The Roof
It is payback time for San Diego-based Kelly Capital. Co-founder Michael Kelly tested his fortune-building knack for playing distressed assets by powering past the initial US$50 million renovation budget to reinvent San Diego’s former Maryland Hotel as a 5-star adult playground. More than US$80 million later, the city’s historic Gaslamp ......
- Raise The Roof
It is payback time for San Diego-based Kelly Capital. Co-founder Michael Kelly tested his fortune-building knack for playing distressed assets by powering past the initial US$50 million renovation budget to reinvent San Diego’s former Maryland Hotel as a 5-star adult playground. More than US$80 million later, the city’s historic Gaslamp ......