Y. Hata & Co. pays $10.3M for Waipahu facility
Y. Hata & Co., a Hawaii-based food service wholesale distributor, paid $10.3 million to acquire a 50,000-square-foot facility in Waipahu as part of the company’s acquisition of competitor King Food Service.
Y. Hata announced in early April that it acquired King Food Service, including its operating and real estate assets, but did not disclose the purchase price.
Public records show the transaction to acquire the one-acre King Food Service property at 94-272 Pupuole St. closed on April 3 for $10.3…
Food Friday: Wind down this weekend at one of these readers favorites places to grab a drink
Last weekend was Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby so we asked readers where they like to go to enjoy a margarita or mint julep or other mixed drink. New Mexico has its fair share of breweries so we wanted to ask not about beer or wine, but about other drinks.
We launched Food Friday to learn more about our readers' favorite restaurants. Some of our most-read stories are restaurant news, and business leaders are always looking for the best restaurants to take their clients, prospects or job…
Cava Group is raising tens of millions of dollars. Again.
Local fast-casual restaurant chain Cava is closing in on another substantial round of fundraising, according to public filings.
Cava Group Inc. notified the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday of a $35 million equity offering. Of that, it's already raised $33,461,206 from 10 investors, according to the filing.
As of last September, Cava had filed documents that indicated it raised a total of $96 million to date, the most recent being a $34.9 million raise in March 2017. That last infusion…
Despite digital emphasis, McDonalds modernization may result in more Hawaii employees
McDonald’s “Experience of the Future” initiative has resulted in more employees in the chain’s test markets despite a switch to kiosk and mobile ordering.
Check out the views inside and outside BrewDog’s newest bar (Video)
The kickoff to Columbus Craft Beer Week includes a new place to toss back a pint.
BrewDog USA opened its third Central Ohio watering hole Friday at 463 W. Town St. in Franklinton. It joins the flagship DogTap restaurant and taproom at its Canal Winchester brewery and a Short North bar that opened last month.
The space, just more than 4,000 square feet, includes a large front patio and – what is sure to be a big selling point – a 2,989-square-foot rooftop patio with its own separate bar and…
Burgers & Brewhouse in midtown targeting early June opening
With construction 99 percent complete, Burgers & Brewhouse in midtown Sacramento is about a month away from opening, owner and operator Derar Zawaydeh said.
Hospitality wars: Many of Denver’s 47,000 hotel rooms are getting million-dollar makeovers as competition heats up
An observant visitor to the recently updated Hotel Monaco in downtown Denver might spot a number of subtle touches in its halls and rooms meant as homages to Colorado’s rich natural resources. In the absence of such a keen eye, though, a guided tour sure helps.
On a recent afternoon, the Monaco‘s general manager, Sandy Burkett, pointed out several of those touches: a color pallet and carpet and wallpaper patterns that reference the various minerals found beneath the Colorado soil and hallway lighting fixtures modeled after miners’ lamps.
The details were added as part of a $6 million renovation competed at the hotel in March. All 189 rooms in the former railway exchange building-turned-hotel at 1717 Champa St. were overhauled.
“We gutted it. New carpet, new pad, new furniture,” Burkett said.
The Denver metro area is home to more hotel options than ever. Many of them, like the dazzling ART Hotel on Broadway and chic new Ramble Hotel in nearby RiNo compete for the type of experience-..
How PNC’s Tampa wealth director’s part-time music gig helps him deepen customer relationships
He’s not your typical wealth manager.
Louisville financial firm expands to Lexington
Louisville-based ARGI Financial Group is expanding to Lexington with a new office.
The company, which provides personal and business financial advising, has hired CPA Crissy Fiscus, who will lead the Lexington operation, located on Pasadena Drive. Fiscus, a University of Kentucky graduate, has more than 20 years of accounting and business services experience. The Lexington team will focus on providing business owner clients with a suite of services including analytics, business plan development,…
Local insurance professional to chair state association
A local insurance executive is the new chairman of the board that oversees Big I New York, the state's insurance trade group.
Louis Atti, vice president of The Evans Agency LLC in Angola, was elected board chair May 10 during the Big I New York's annual business meeting, which took place at The Westin in downtown Buffalo. Atti is past president of the Independent Insurance Agents Association of Western New York and former mayor and trustee of the Village of Angola.
A member of the board since…