Probably the best known nontraditional restaurant sites—and maybe, in some ways, they are traditional—are food courts. In my quest to get a handle on them, I have come to the conclusion I’m not sure…
When you walk in the Commodore Bar and Restaurant in St. Paul you immediately look around to see if F. Scott and Zelda are sitting at their usual corner table in the bar sipping…
There has been a great deal written about nontraditional restaurant sites (NTS), but not about their economic viability. While traditional restaurant sites are defined as stand-alone, inline or first floors of hotels and office…
As you can see from the Monitor’s annual Top 200 ranking of the largest franchisees, a significant share are multi-concept operators. Multiple concepts seem to be the trend and a way for the large…
There’s more than one reason hot dogs are on the menu at a Japanese sushi restaurant on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis. One, they’re a welcome item on the kids’ menu; two, Chef Hide Tozawa,…
A good friend of mine invests in early stage restaurant companies and new concepts. The first thing he asks is, “What are my dining privileges?” and “How many gift cards do I get?” It’s…
Monroe Moxness Berg is proud to have represented KBP Foods, a leading franchisee of quick service restaurants in the U.S., in its acquisition of 91 KFC & Taco Bell restaurants in the Michigan, New…
There are only 38 diners on the National Registry of Historical places. Before coming to rest at 4020 East Lake Street in Minneapolis, the Hi-Lo Diner was a 1950s Fodero Diner, from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania….
St. Genevieve, Chef Steven Brown’s latest establishment, is already attracting the fine dining neighborhood crowd looking for someone setting a high bar. It is a true French bistro of the ilk you would see…
