Dine Brands hopes to boost sales this year with a wider swath of value meals and buzzier advertising after a rough 2024 for Applebee’s and IHOP. “We had a soft year…
Business
- 
	
- 
	Struggling drugstore chain Walgreens is going private. The company on Thursday said it inked a deal with private equity firm Sycamore Partners that will take it off the public market for an equity value… 
- 
	BusinessMacy’s turnaround hinges on revamping some stores and closing others. It appears to be working.by adminMacy’s delivered another quarter of mixed results on Thursday as investors wait and see how quickly CEO Tony Spring can pull off a turnaround of the business with yet another activist investor looking to… 
- 
	BusinessMacy’s turnaround hinges on revamping some stores and closing others. It appears to be workingby adminMacy’s delivered another quarter of mixed results on Thursday as investors wait and see how quickly CEO Tony Spring can pull off a turnaround of the business with yet another activist investor looking to… 
- 
	President Donald Trump will “probably” announce tariff compromise deals with Canada and Mexico soon, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday. The potential agreements would likely involve scaling back at least part of… 
- 
	BusinessHow a $5 million fix turned Paramount Pictures’ ‘Sonic’ into a billion-dollar franchiseby adminSonic the Hedgehog may be able to run faster than the speed of light, but his film franchise nearly came to a screaming halt in 2019. A less-than-three-minute trailer released… 
- 
	Starbucks announced Tuesday that Nordstrom CFO Cathy Smith will join the company as its new chief financial officer, replacing longtime veteran Rachel Ruggeri. The executive change is the latest for Starbucks after Brian Niccol joined… 
- 
	When the Los Angeles wildfires swept through Southern California in January, Barbara Shay lost much more than the building housing the cafe she owned. Gone were the ingredients for menu… 
- 
	BusinessTreasury Dept. will not enforce ownership information reporting for millions of businessesby adminThe U.S. Department of the Treasury on Sunday announced it won’t enforce the penalties or fines associated with the Biden-era “beneficial ownership information,” or BOI, reporting requirements for millions of domestic businesses. Enacted via… 
- 
	BusinessMusk says he’s sending Starlink tech to FAA while asserting, without evidence, that air safety is at riskby adminElon Musk said Thursday that he’s sending his Starlink satellite internet terminals to the Federal Aviation Administration while saying, without providing evidence, that current technology poses a risk to air travel… 
