Romano is busy forging other relationships as well. The Macaroni Grill and Eatzi's creator has inked a partnership with Compass Group North America, the world's largest contract food service purveyor, to develop new business in the United States with a focus on the Southwest. Compass Group is part of U.K.-based Compass Group PLC, which generates some $17 billion in annual revenues, services museums, airports, health-care facilities, sporting and performing-arts venues and operates posh restaurants in New York, Chicago and California... Jon Stevens is the new executive chef at Mignon. The former chef de cuisine at The Mercury in The Shops at Willow Bend and one-time consulting chef at Kent Rathbun's Jasper's slipped into the post late last month. He is radically altering Mignon's menu, discarding the threadbare steak-house motif and channeling some French cuisine, like "freedom" sweetbreads perhaps. "I walked in here and I was like, 'Oh, my God. This whole place needs to change.'"