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...Governors of Michigan, Georgia and Illinois, as well as West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, one of the IRA’s architects, were at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week extolling the virtues of the act...
...items like the Doritos Locos Tacos and the quesalupa....
...It’s a mouth-watering combination – Chipotle, the fast-casual burrito chain, has tapped the chief of Mexican fast-food brand Taco Bell to help turn a corner on stagnant sales and a food safety crisis, and...
...Restaurant chain El Pollo Loco declined 20.7 per cent to $14.56 after it dimmed its full-year sales growth forecasts....
...Last week, the company launched a tie-up to deliver burritos from Chipotle, the popular Mexican fast-food chain, across 24 US cities where it has a total of nearly 10,000 couriers....
...Shake Shack is seeking a higher valuation than some of its peers, including El Pollo Loco and Potbelly, two casual restaurants that listed shares last year....
...But the Illinois-based company has also been at the mercy of more fundamental shifts in the restaurant industry, which seemed to accelerate just as Mr Thompson took the reins....
...Sales at companies such as burrito-makers Chipotle and Qdoba and higher-end burger chains such as Five Guys and Smashburger, grew 13 per cent last year, twice the pace of their fast-food counterparts, said...
...Mike el-Haj, the manager of the Tchula Food Center, knows that he could do better. But the economies of scale are not there. “It’s a small town,” he shrugs, and goes back to stocking a cabinet....
...While Ralph Whitworth of Relational Investors had a good year at Illinois Tool Works, he suffered in Hewlett-Packard....
...“We have more than 200 destinations – 204, as of Tuesday, when we fly to Sharm el Sheikh,” Temel Kotil, chief executive of the 49 per cent state owned group, told the Financial Times....
...Nobody talks to strangers on the “El”. Is she insane? Am I?...
...The enthusiasm and speed of his delivery makes him compelling, whether finishing off a sous-vide dish, talking about the future of El Bulli or answering questions from aspiring chefs....
...of the El Niño weather phenomenon....
...El-Erian’s serious analysis of the new economic world order has won admirers in every major financial market....
...HL Hunt drilled his first well in El Dorado, Arkansas, in 1921 and created his company four years later. The company expanded into the North Sea in 1970. Mr Hunt died in 1974 at the age of 85....
...This follows a fire at ChevronTexaco’s El Segundo, California refinery, and the continued shutdown of ExxonMobil’s Joliet, Illinois plant....
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