Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants Inc. has just introduced a completely redesigned concept location in Dallas and is planning to roll out nationwide with all future locations. The unit, an end cap location at 2525 Wycliff Ave. at Brown St., features a…

  In mid-September, Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc. reported that Wesley Campbell of Elizabethtown, North Carolina-based Campbell Oil Company has become the brand’s latest franchisee. Campbell plans to open his first Arby’s restaurant this year in Elizabethtown with future plans to…

Known for its Hooter Girls and Hooters Style chicken wings, the 32 year old Hooters casual dining chain has ramped up corporate development and increased franchise development along with a system-wide remodel program. Hooters of America LLC is the franchisor…

In late September, Johnny Rockets restaurant chain introduced its fast casual concept called Johnny’s Burger Factory. Approximately 1000 square feet, the unit is on the second level adjacent to Pole Position Raceway. The new concept was created, in part, to…

Lou Moshakos, founder of hospitality management company LM Restaurants Inc., has signed a long-term lease as the master tenant of two adjoined buildings on East Martin St. in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. His plans are to use the spaces at 17…

  A former restaurant unit of 1200 square feet is available for immediate possession in the Manatee Village, a 104,000 square foot neighborhood center on South Pinellas Ave in Tarpon Springs the Tampa/St. Petersburg/Clearwater metropolitan area on Florida’s west coast.…

Dallas-based Pie Five Pizza has reached a multi-unit development agreement with experienced franchisees Jeff and Christine Steiner who plan to open up to 30 locations in North Carolina. The first markets to open will be metropolitan Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham and Greensboro-Winston Salem.…

Late last year, franchisees Iryna and Ihar Dziatko introduced the Sarpino’s Pizzeria concept to the Georgia market with the first location on North Side Dr. NW in Atlanta serving the greater midtown market. In September, the couple signed a three…

  In mid-October, quick casual concept Smashburger announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 40 percent of the company to Jollibee Foods Corp., Asia’s largest restaurant company. The purchase price values Smashburger at a $335-million enterprise…

Chicago-area gastropub concept Tap House Grill is launching a franchising program targeting the Midwest first, with national expansion to follow. Launched in 2006, Tap House Grill Addictive Food/Creative Brews presently has about nine locations across the Chicago suburbs and several…