First live music was silenced, then live-streamed when it was thought COVID would be over quickly.

Everyone at the park that meanders along the Mississippi River in Red Wing was social distancing, except one especially aggressive squirrel who had his eye on my picnic lunch.

How Has Your Job Changed?

Most concept changes don't tug at your heartstrings. But when Tanya Spaulding, principal at Shea, was asked to reconceptualize Popul Vuh in Northeast Minneapolis, she had mixed emotions.

Describing his career, Timothy McKenna says he “slowly crept” from server to management, but in actuality the elevator ride only required a few months before his innate talent for bringing out the best in people was discovered.

Tickets to the Minnesota State Fair's food parade went on sale the last Friday of July and sold out immediately.

Four Minnesota companies and an equal number in Wisconsin made the Restaurant Finance Monitor's 200 Restaurant Franchisee list based on revenue for 2019.

A lawsuit over a 52-cent wellness surcharge brought against a Minneapolis multi-concept restaurant group last November was dismissed by a Hennepin County District Court judge in July.

Although Justin Butler's Duck Donuts franchise is in an affluent suburb, Butler's employees were still concerned back in early summer that the rioting surrounding the death of George Floyd while in police custody would affect them.

Andy Cohen capitalized on the unwelcome pause the pandemic has thrust on businesses to refresh one restaurant and rebrand another one.