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In addition to coffee and a food menu, the new location is expected to serve beer and wine.

A Birmingham-based restaurant chain is expanding in the metro area with another location.

Jack’s has opened its second Bessemer location at 4941 Civic Lane.

The move comes as the fast food company looks to speed up growth with 14 new and revamped restaurant locations.

“We want to be seen as a growing brand and not just somebody who’s standing still,” Jack’s CEO Todd Bartmess told the Birmingham Business Journal in April. “We want to be a great regional player in the Southeast where…

Alex Betancourt of Kansas City, Kan., is taking the world soccer stage as the sole American representative in the World Cup — of eFootball.

The gamer, 19, made it out of the group stage into the semifinals, which take place Saturday in London. One group of 16 plays on PlayStation4, and another group takes the virtual field using Xbox One, Reuters reports.

Betancourt was signed by Sporting Kansas City in March to play in a new competitive sports league that started in the spring.

(If you wonder…

Trifecta Nutrition, a West Sacramento-based organic meal delivery service, is in a marketing partnership with mixed martial arts promoter UFC.

Under the deal announced Thursday, Trifecta will have a branded presence at UFC live events, in videos and on social media, among other exposure, the two companies said.

Trifecta CEO Greg Connolly said in a news release that Las Vegas-based Ultimate Fighting Championship is the “ideal partner to help us evangelize clean eating” and weight management through…

Houston is hot with restaurant news. Here's the latest in the the city's food scene:

The Original Ninfa’s on Navigation and Antone’s Famous Po’ Boys — both owned by Houston-based Legacy Restaurants — are coming to NRG Stadium for the Houston Texan’s 2018 season, according to a press release.

Antone’s will have a total of four grab-and-go kiosks in the stadium, with two on the 100-level concourse and the other two on the 500-level concourse, per the release. These will offer four…

Georgia is widely known as the Peach State, but don’t tell that to growers of peanuts, pecans and cotton, all crops that make up a larger share of the state’s farm economy.

Summer concert venues used as key business backdrops.

On the heels of seeing the $20 million renovation and re-flagging of one of its most iconic hotels from the Ritz-Carlton to The Whitley and the opening of the new upscale AC Hotel at Phipps Plaza, Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood will soon welcome a whopping 750 additional hotel rooms within the next three years.

“The hotel demand is record-setting and growing,” said Paul Breslin, managing director of Horwath HTL, consulting specialists in the hotel, tourism and leisure industries. “The growth in…

In the pre-recession days, Buckhead held an almost exclusive lock on the city’s fine dining scene, where anniversaries, birthdays, special occasions and close-the-deal business meetings were celebrated over linen-topped tables. Suburbanites braved the traffic and headed ITP for a memorable meal.

But a look at some of the new players in the neighborhood show a shift in preferences that move away from the once- or twice-yearly experience to something more in tune with trends around fast-casual,…