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Inside Craig Waibel’s ‘arduous’ interview process Sounders new sporting director stood out amidst multiple rounds of interviews, including a written project and hours of interviews. Photo courtesy of Real Salt Lake Share this story The first time Garth Lagerwey hired Craig Waibel — as an assistant at Real Salt Lake — it was over endless breadsticks at Olive Garden. Or maybe it was a pretzel-bun hamburger from Ruby Tuesday. The exact details are slightly contested. But what both agree ...

TGI Fridays® CEO Resigns to Join the Circus Ray Blanchette Fulfills Childhood Dream of Becoming a High-Wire Artist News provided by Share this article ®, the iconic restaurant brand known as the authority on bringing good times, good food, and pursuing ones hopes and dreams, today announced Ray Blanchette will be stepping down as CEO. Effective immediately, Blanchette will transition to executive chairman of TGI Fridays board and stay engaged on the only initiative he cares about, Under the B...

Breakfast, casual dining and family dining seemed to suffer more closures than other segments in the industry The COVID-19 pandemic in the restaurant industry seemed to be defined by “under-performing” units closing by the hundreds. COVID-related indoor-dining closures caused many restaurant groups to face large financial strains. Starbucks, one of the top 10 restaurant chains on NRN’s Top 200, suffered because of a workforce that went largely remote and abandoned the breakfast dayp...

A year after the pandemic threw New York into turmoil, THE CITY is examining the shaken-up jobs market — including the varying impact on different sectors and evolving predictions of what’s to come. The Muse Hotel in Times Square tried with very little success to navigate the coronavirus pandemic. It closed when the economy paused last year, reopened three months later and shut its doors again on Jan. 3. “We just weren’t able to grow the business,” said Matt Hurlburt, the general mana...

The 83-unit fast-casual chain known for ‘damn good’ tacos is accelerating growth The next restaurant chain to go public may be the fast-casual Torchy’s Tacos. Bloomberg reported last week that the Austin, Texas-based fast-casual chain has hired Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp. to explore a proposed initial public offering this year. The report indicated Torchy’s could raise an estimated $300 million and have a valuation of about $1 billion. Company officials did not immedi...

Long-term indoor dining closures have devastated the casual-dining industry throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, leading many restaurant groups in the sector to declare bankruptcy. Victims have ranged from Ruby Tuesday to Sizzler. But it wasn’t only casual-dining that took the hit. Fast-casual chains such as Rubio’s and By Chloe also fell victim. Some franchisees also suffered. NPC International, one of the largest franchisees of Pizza Hut and Wendy’s, declared bankruptcy, as did IHOP franch...

The Watertown city council Monday night unanimously approved the restaurant’s site plan for a building where Ruby Tuesday was off Arsenal Street.

WATERTOWN — About $1.6 million in street improvements under the city’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative program cleared a major hurdle Monday night with the selection of a local engineering firm. City Council on Monday agreed on a $205,000 contract for the engineering firm of Barton & Loguidice, Watertown, to design the streetscape project involving a good portion of Court Street, the 200 block of Franklin Street and a small portion of Coffeen Street. A committee of city staff deter...

WATERTOWN — City Council members on Monday night gave final approval for site plans for the proposed Chick-fil-A restaurant in City Center Plaza off Arsenal Street. Construction of the 5,000-square-foot Chick-fil-A restaurant won’t begin until the fall and would open a year later. The Chick-fil-A would be built at the site of the now-closed Ruby Tuesday restaurant in the plaza. Ruby Tuesday would be demolished to make way for the Chick-fil-A. When the project was at the Planning Board...

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