Tortilla Franchise Growing Up
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Bob Phillips, president of Rockville-based food chain California Tortilla Group, breezes into his third restaurant of the day to ensure the goofy, fun-loving "Cal-Tort" culture is in full blossom.
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One of America&#39;s largest fast-food chains is offering its customers a helping hand in fulfilling their New Year&#39;s resolutions.
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Restaurant menus in Los Angeles are marrying the broader commercial movement of âfunctionalâ foods.
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The high cost of tortillas and other food staples has consumed politics and spilled into the ever-simmering debate over Mexicoâs commitment to free-market economics.
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Inhabitants of the New World had chili peppers and the makings of taco chips 6,100 years ago, according to new research that examined the bowl-scrapings of people sprinkled throughout Central America and the Amazon basin.
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There is growth, but it's not homemade.
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- Yum Brands Inc., the operator of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut restaurants, said on Friday that it engaged a pest control expert for urban settings to review standards for its outlets in New York City.
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NOGALES, Mexico  - Slipping into the United States, eight-year-old Adrian Ramirez began a three-day trek across the cactus-studded wastes with just a small bag of tortillas and one large hope keeping him going.
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A sampling of ideas from the next generation of consumers--and entrepreneurs.
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Worldwide Restaurant Concepts sounds like a company that is putting itself up for sale.
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The chain named after its desserts isn't as sweet as it used to be.
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The producer built a franchise importing TV shows. ItÂs about to become an empire.
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By Scully, Carla Zanetos  Winans  By jumping on the gourmet coffee trend, Piqua, Ohio-based Winans Fine Chocolates and Coffees quickly attracted a new clientele, one that spurred growth and eventual franchising.
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1-800-PACK-RAT plans to open a new franchise in Salt Lake City in mid-September.  The company delivers waterproof, steel units at curbs or driveway for customers to load and lock. The company then returns to take the container to a storage facility or to another site for unloading.
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Internationally owned grocery store chains are claiming more and more of the Latin American market, analysts say. In the 1990s supermarkets went from controlling 10 percent to 20 percent of various Latin American
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 9--Havana-born Carlos Gutierrez rose from salesman and truck driver to chief executive of Kellogg, becoming the youngest chief executive in the 100-year history of the maker of Pop Tarts and Frosted Flakes.
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WASHINGTON -- Who says food fads can't last? Thousands of years before the advent of Tex-Mex, ancient Americans were spicing up stew with red hot chili peppers.