BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$245.5M
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
BUCA, Inc. currently owns and operates 92 full service restaurants under the name Buca di Beppo. The majority of our revenues are generated from the sale of food and beverages. Our restaurants offer high quality, family-style Italian cuisine served in small and large family-style portions meant for sharing in a fun and energetic atmosphere that reflects the decor and ambiance of post-World War II Italian/American restaurants. We design each of our restaurants to be a fun, lively destination. Each Buca di Beppo restaurant is unique, which reinforces our image as a collection of neighborhood restaurants. Our food, decor and large servings all promote a fun, celebratory and socially interactive dining experience that emulates a traditional Italian/American meal. Our objective is to become the favorite Italian restaurant concept in each of the markets in which we operate.
Chairman & CEOWallace B. Doolin
Number of Employees 5,650
Contact Information
1300 Nicollet Mall
Suite 5003
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403-2606
612 225 3400
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Full-Service Restaurants: 722110
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BUCA, Inc. to Present at Investor Conference
MINNEAPOLIS -- BUCA, Inc. (NASDAQ: BUCA) today announced that management will be presenting at the Cowen & Co. 6th Annual Consumer Conference taking place January 15 - 16, 2008 in New York City. Making presentations for the company will be Wallace B. Doolin the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive...
BUCA, Inc. to Present at Cowen & Company Consumer Conference
MINNEAPOLIS -- BUCA, Inc. (NASDAQ: BUCA) today announced that it will be presenting at the Cowen and Company 5th Annual Consumer Conference taking place at the Westin Times Square Hotel in New York City on January 9 - 10, 2007. Wallace Doolin, the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...
Buca, 4 directors sued in wake of SEC investigation
MINNEAPOLIS -- Buca Inc., operator or franchisor of 107 Buca di Beppo and Vinny T's of Boston restaurants, and four directors were named defendants in a shareholder-filed "derivative action" lawsuit in Hennepin County, Minn., District Court. The company and board members were charged with breach of fiduciary duties for...
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Joe Micatrotto Jr. mentors students at NRA conference
Growing up in the restaurant business and majoring in hospitality in college, Joe Micatrotto Jr. had plenty of mentors. Now he is returning the favor. Micatrotto, a former managing partner of a Buca di Beppo restaurant, is president and chief executive of the Micatrotto Restaurant Group LLC, a Las Vegas-based...
AROUND THE COUNTY
Projects, developments and other activity in cities in and around OC BREA Detroit-based real estate developer and investor Bosc Equities LLC plans to demolish three buildings and build two new ones at Brea Plaza, a shopping center on Imperial Highway near the Orange (57) Freeway. The...
Dressed for dinner.(UPFRONT)(Miss USA contestants at the Buca di Beppo)(Brief article)
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Contestants in the 2009 Miss USA Pageant made a stop at the Las Vegas Buca di Beppo for a family-style menu of mozzarella caprese salad, apple gorgonzola salad, prosciutto stuffed mushrooms, lemon chicken, salmon with pesto, spaghetti marinara, broccoli with greens...
Buca offers discount to Calif. state workers
LAS VEGAS -- The casual-dining Buca di Beppo chain is offering a 20-percent discount to California state employees and their guests who dine at any of the brand's 21 locations in the state through Oct. 31. California's government workers have been singled out in part because the state has been...
Ex-speaker's lobbying total: $750
Former House Speaker Greg Curtis spent just over $750 lobbying his former colleagues during the 2009 Legislature, his quarterly report to the state shows. But Curtis never exceeded the current $50 limit on a meal for a lawmaker, so he didn't have to name any of his...
Bertucci's sells Vinny T's to C&T Rest. Mgmt
NORTHBOROUGH, MASS. -- Bertucci's Corp. said it sold its seven-unit Vinny T's chain to New York-based C&T Restaurant Management LLC to focus on the growth of its core 94-unit chain, Bertucci's Italian Restaurant. Terms were not disclosed. C&T Restaurant Management operates Pomodorino, a casual-dining concept with four locations on Long...
Fugitive is traced to Italian job; SUSPECT WORKED AS CHEF
Byline: By SOPHIE DOUGHTY and LAURA CAROE HE is one of Tyneside's most wanted fugitives and has been on the run for five years. But suspected drug criminal Keith Golder wasn't hiding away. The 52-year-old was working as a chef at an Italian restaurant,...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| John Bettin | President |
| Cynthia C. Rodahl | Chief Family Resource Officer |
| Dennis J. Goetz | Chief Accounting Officer |
| Kaye R. O'Leary | CFO |
| Steve Hickey | Chief Marketing Officer & Senior Vice President |
| Anthony Penn | Senior Vice President, Operations |
| Jim Cowler | Senior Vice President, Operations |
| Joseph Kohaut | Senior Vice President, Operations |
| Wes Garnett | Senior Vice President, Family Resources |
| Alan Ackerberg | Vice President, Construction |
| Chris Gravel | Vice President, Operations |
| David La Flash | Vice President, Operations Division |
| Joseph J. Talarico | Vice President, New Operations Division |
| Loren Lord | Vice President, Development |
| Lori Holmes | Vice President, Training |
| M. Michelle Armstrong | Vice President, Real Estate & Development |
| Steve York | Vice President, Operations Division |
| Charles Ring | Paisano Partner |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Wallace B. Doolin | Chairman & CEO |
| Fritzi Gouldsby-Pikes Woods | Board of Directors |
| Fritzi P. Woods | Board of Directors |
| James T. Stamas | Board of Directors |
| John P. Whaley | Board of Directors |
| Paul J. Zepf | Board of Directors |
| Peter J. Mihajlov | Board of Directors |
| Sidney J. Feltenstein | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Buca, Inc. | Chairman & CEO | Current |
| Caribou Coffee Company Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | President | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Chief Family Resource Officer | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Chief Accounting Officer | Current |
| Buca, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | CFO | Current |
| Buca, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Buca, Inc. | Chief Marketing Officer & Senior Vice President | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Operations | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Operations | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Operations | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Family Resources | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Vice President, Construction | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Vice President, Operations | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Vice President, Operations Division | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Vice President, New Operations Division | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Buca, Inc. | Vice President, Development | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Vice President, Training | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Vice President, Real Estate & Development | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Vice President, Operations Division | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Paisano Partner | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Buca, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
Sidney Feltenstein has been a member of our Board of Directors since May 2004. Since June 2005, Mr. Feltenstein has been the Chairman of Sagittarius Brands, a restaurant holding company. From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Feltenstein served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Yorkshire Global Restaurants, an operator of A&W Restaurants and Long John Silver s restaurants. Mr. Feltenstein has served in a variety of operations and marketing management positions in the restaurant business including Chief Marketing Officer for Dunkin Donuts and Executive President of Worldwide Marketing for Burger King Corporation. Mr. Feltenstein is active in various organizations, including the International Franchise Association. From 2002 to May 2004, Mr. Feltenstein pursued personal investment opportunities. Since 2003, Mr. Feltenstein has been a director of BUCA, Inc., a public company that operates restaurants.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sagittarius Brands, Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| Buca, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Odimo Incorporated | Board of Directors | Current |
| Ashford.Com | Board of Directors | Current |
| A&W Restaurants, Inc. | President | Former |
| A&W Restaurants, Inc. | Operator | Former |
| A&W Restaurants, Inc. | Chairman | Former |
| Buca, Inc. | Director | Former |
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