Word: restaurante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chevron cooked up its Foodini's Fresh Meal Market earlier this year, the latest player in the $100 billion bake-off known, charmingly enough, as home-meal replacement. You know it better as the store-bought, ready-to-eat food that is supposed to taste as if Mom made it...
So consumers are being sated, but many investors are going hungry. Boston Market has produced excellent food and wretched numbers. The company's rapid expansion, a controversial franchising scheme and an overly ambitious menu racked up losses of $224 million on sales of $379 million last year. The stock has...
Nevertheless, Boston Market has fundamentally changed the restaurant industry. More than half the meals ordered in a sit-down restaurant get up and go home to be eaten. According to the National Restaurant Association, this year the entire industry is growing at a modest 3% clip, while takeout is expanding...
And the supermarket is slowly becoming more like a takeout restaurant. With more competitors taking a bigger bite out of their profits, supermarkets are steadily increasing their selection of prepared foods. According to a survey by the Food Marketing Institute, 22% of consumers bought ready-made food from supermarkets last...
If the supermarket is starting to look more like a restaurant, places like EatZi's in Dallas are an unconventional hybrid of the two. Started by Phil Romano, the founder of Fuddruckers restaurant chain, EatZi's serves more than 400 items like poached raspberry salmon ($4.99 a portion) or grilled...