MRM News Bites: The Art of Slow, Cracker Barrel Goes West and a Latte Art Throwdown

By MRM Staff

This week's MRM New Bites features the first West Coast Cracker Barrel, a documentary series that asks how contemplation inspires creativity, Mama Gaia in Memphis, Nobu Downtown in NYC, creature cans and a latte art showdown in London. Send news items of interest to bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com or modernrestaurantmanagement@gmail.com.

SPYR to Spin-Off Eat at Joe'sSPYR, INC., a holding company with wholly owned subsidiaries in both the mobile game and app development and publishing industry, and in the restaurant industry, announced a formal action by the Company's Board of Directors to initiate the legal and regulatory steps necessary to spin-off the company's restaurant division, Eat at Joe's® as a separate publicly traded company.

The spin-off company, currently operating under the name Eat at Joe's®, will focus on the licensing or possibly franchising of the Eat at Joe's® name and concept and will also include the manufacture and distribution of branded foods…