A peek into biggest food strip in PH
By Norman Lee Benjamin RiegoThe biggest village in Asia just might have the biggest food strip as well.
The biggest village in Asia just might have the biggest food strip as well.
Right at the peak of this sizzling tropical summer, American gourmet ice cream parlor chain Cold Stone Creamery has announced its entry into the Philippine market as part of its Asian expansion program.
Bryan Tiu was only about 18, still in school, when he first tried his hand in business via a pizza chain franchise.
On the reported “compromise” that’s shaping up between two proponents of separate connector roads linking the North and South Luzon expressways, the government seems to be getting impatient waiting for rivals San Miguel/Citra and Metro Pacific groups to resolve their differences on the P7-billion, five-kilometer common alignment on their own. After all, the government wants the project to get going in preparation for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Summit to be hosted by the Philippines in 2015.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. That’s why you have senators “imitating” dead presidents’ speeches. You also have stall owners in Greenhills openly selling handbags copied from high-end luxury brands. But this practice apparently hasn’t spared the local restaurant industry.
When two friends got together and decided to put up their own business, they came up with the idea of starting a restaurant.After all, one of them worked as a chef in Singapore. This is how Uncle Noodles, a Singaporean-inspired noodle shop, came into existence.
D&L Industries, a producer of ingredients and other inputs for food and plastic products, has set its initial public offering at a price of P4.30 per share, or at the middle of the indicative price range.
Q: We read your column last Friday. It was about how a local brand can become a global brand like Jollibee assuming that Jollibee qualifies as a global brand.
Dining out and staying in a hotel in France will become more expensive from the end of next year after the government announced plans Tuesday to hike VAT and hinted at an even bigger increase.
A popular Japanese ramen restaurant in the middle of the Makati central business district reopened its doors last week after being ordered closed by the city government for a month.
American dining chain Johnny Rockets is expected to scale up its presence in the Philippines as its local franchise partner has committed to invest about P1 billion to build a 40-restaurant network in five years.
Homegrown casual dining chain Pancake House Inc. is embarking on an overseas expansion program that aims to build a network of 300 stores—or as big as the scale of its current domestic business—in the next five to seven years.
