Johnny Rockets opens in Scarsdale
Montag Rockets Group, a franchisee of popular hamburger purveyor Johnny Rockets, has opened a 3,010-square-foot restaurant at The Shoppes at Eastchester on White Plains Road in Scarsdale. It has another location in Mount Kisco.
The Scarsdale restaurant is the 17th Johnny Rockets to open in New York state and will employ about 40 people.
The first Johnny Rockets opened on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles in 1986. The chain has since expanded to locations like Mexico and Seoul, Korea.
Ridge Hill retail rollout
A miniature grand opening for Yonkers”™ Ridge Hill mixed-use development from Forest City Ratner Cos. is scheduled for Oct. 20. Some 30 to 40 restaurants and retailers will participate, including L.L. Bean, Sephora, Orvis, H&M, the Cheesecake Factory, Yard House, Brio Tuscan Grille, Texas De Brazil, GAP, Delia”™s, Desigual, Old Navy, Republic of Couture, Barbes, Elevation Burger, Yankee Candle, Sur La Table and dry cleaner Image Cleaner.
National Amusements”™ Cinema de Lux just opened to free, 3D movie showings of “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.”
Honors for Eileen Fisher
Irvington-based designer Eileen Fisher Inc. and Earl Everett Ferguson Architect have been awarded a 2011 Good Design is Good Business Award by Architectural Record, a publication of McGraw Hill Construction.
Only nine winners were selected out of dozens of nominees globally.
Earl Everett Ferguson designed Eileen Fisher”™s sustainable studios and showroom in a historic building once occupied by a department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
In addition, the architect converted an old factory belonging to Lord & Burnham on the banks of the Hudson River into Eileen Fisher offices, which were expanded by 19,000 square feet with a loft look.
IHOP comes to consumers
If you”™ve enjoyed pancakes at IHOP restaurants in Hartsdale, Larchmont or Yonkers, you can now bring home your breakfast with the launch of the IHOP at Home line of frozen entrees.
Items like flaky stuffed French toast and Griddle ”˜n Sausage wraps will be sold at 3,000 Walmarts nationwide before full distribution at traditional retail and grocery stores.
IHOP considered its “on the go consumers” when entering into a licensing agreement to produce the product, said Jean Birch, IHOP president.
