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Brothers Khari and Shawn Parker will be serving up chicken and waffles and shrimp and grits inside the renewed and upgraded north shed of Broadway Market.

Connie's Chicken & Waffles is one of five new local businesses set to move into the north shed of the 232-year-old market when it reopens in February, the Parker brothers said Wednesday.

“We're expanding into our third location and we're from Baltimore, so this is an area we haven't tapped into yet,” Khari Parker said of the Fells Point community.…

Lynn Gordon, whose French Meadow Bakery & Cafe concept was the top-grossing food vendor at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from 2014 to 2017, is opening her second concept, Peoples Organic, at the airport on Wednesday.

The 900-square-foot space, which will be Peoples Organic's first at a major airport, will open in Terminal 1's Concourse F. The franchised restaurant-cafe focuses on organic, locally grown food, and has seven locations throughout Minnesota and the University of Massachusetts.…

The actor is planning his second location in Arizona after a similar partnership with a California tribe proved successful.

Editor’s note: Opening a restaurant is a herculean feat — especially when the founders have no industry experience. We're following one such journey, a couple opening a new Indian restaurant in Loudoun County, in a yearlong Washington Business Journal series we call “Into the Frying Pan.” This is the eighth installment; click here for Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 and Part 7.

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As mergers and acquisitions heat up in the cannabis industry, one Massachusetts company is following suit, with Compassionate Organics announcing that it will be acquired by Green Thumb Industries.

The Phoenician Golf Club has been transformed from a 27-hole facility into a cohesive 18-hole golf course.

A couple of restaurant closures in uptown Charlotte made waves in recent weeks.

First, Cantina 1511 shuttered its doors at the corner of Fifth and College streets during the last weekend in September. Open for less than a year, the contemporary Mexican restaurant cited slower traffic, ongoing staffing issues and its large amount of square footage in uptown as factors behind the closure.

And a couple of weeks later, another uptown restaurant — this one in business for a decade — announced…

Ford's Garage, the 1920s service station-themed restaurant chain based in Tampa, is on the verge of a major growth spurt that will nearly double its number of locations and put it on course to potentially go public within three years.

When the clock strikes 5 p.m., many Dallas residents are opening their Lyft app and heading out to grab a drink.

The ride-hailing service says it’s seeing more young professionals hitch a ride to happy hour year-over-year, and many are going straight from work to take advantage of happy hour deals.

When it comes to choosing a destination, Yohan Bobcombe, market manager of Dallas-Fort Worth for Lyft, says Dallasites prefer places where they can grab a drink and a bite.

“In Dallas, Lyft riders…