Mandola's Market sounds like the lovechild of Jimmy's Food Store and Eatzi's. But it really shares in the heritage of Carraba's and Chili's Bar & Grill. In other words, it has a great pedigree and powerful potential...although we'll have to wait until later this year for it to arrive in Dallas.
Larry Lavine, of Chili's Bar & Grill fame, is launching a branch of a new fast-casual Italian-market concept founded in Austin called Mandola's Market. Similar to Eatzi's, but with an exclusivel
Kristina BowmanThe News is reporting that Norman Brinker died this morning while on vacation in Colorado Springs; he turned 78 last Wednesday. Brinker, of course, is the Colorado-born chairman emeritus of Brinker International -- and the man who, in 1984, took Larry Lavine's Chili's concept public; what began as a bar and grill on the corner of Greenville Avenue and Meadow Road became the foundation for such brand names as On the Border, Maggiano's and Macaroni Grill. Brinker's also a former Oly
