IRVINE Calif. America’s craft beer resurgence has changed casual dining’s operations in recent years, as one look inside a Yard House Restaurant readily attests. Like brass-gilded cattails spouting ...

Last October, the Yard House restaurant opened in The Village at Meridian. The Yard House is a corporate restaurant chain that began in California when founder Steele Platt wanted to, according to the ...

Steele Platt opened his first restaurant in Denver in 1985 at age 25. Its failure was the best thing to happen to him. “You need that first lesson about what went wrong to do it right the next time,” ...

Working as a bar manager at a Yard House Restaurant comes with its own set of challenges. Chief among them is managing the massive array of draft beer that’s offered. Each of the chain’s 20 outlets ...