Sentence examples for restaurant division from inspiring English sources

Elior, a French catering and fast-food company, got its start in 1991 when its co-presidents, Francis Markus and Robert Zolade, led a group of managers at Accor, a service company that was concentrating on hotels, in buying a controlling stake in what was then Accor's restaurant division, Générale de Restauration.

The company, which operates Marriott hotels in Britain, is also reorganizing and rebranding parts of its restaurant division.

Private equity firm Cinven had bought the Gondola Group in 2006, but was reported earlier this year to be considering breaking this restaurant division apart.

"Is that the guy with the horse?" asked Jon Luther, the chief executive of the restaurant division of Allied Domecq, which owns Dunkin' Donuts.

The next year, he spun off the restaurant division, composed of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut chains, as an independent public company, creating what is now known as Yum Brands.

When he was a vice president at the Pillsbury corporate headquarters, Cain decided that he had hit a dead end, so he gave up the title, took a pay cut and started again from the bottom at the company's restaurant division.

Although he said he "never hungered for" the chief executive spot, Mr. Enrico's subsequent experience running the company's Frito-Lay and restaurant divisions -- which, at the time, included Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC -- made him the obvious replacement for the chief executive at the time, Wayne Calloway, who fell ill with prostate cancer in the early 1990's.

He will be replaced by Phil Urban, who joined as chief operating officer in January from Grosvenor Casinos and previously ran Whitbread's pub restaurants division.

The Amazon Restaurants division, which grew out of Amazon Local starting back in May, also includes staff from that operation.

He brought in experienced fast-food executives, like Frank B. Young, a Wendy's alumnus, to run the company-owned restaurants division, and Michael Shumsky, a Taco Bell veteran, to oversee operations.

The news confirms earlier reports which indicated Amazon was staffing up a new restaurants division to compete with services like GrubHub with hires in both Seattle and New York.