Piccadilly aims to expand its food service division … Metairie-based Smoothie King chain being sold

Getting served: Piccadilly Restaurants has scheduled a pair of open-house dinners for businesses in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans areas as the Baton Rouge-based restaurant chain attempts to expand its food service division. Of the approximately 70 food service contracts Piccadilly has landed in recent years at businesses, schools and hospitals, about 25 are in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The Baton Rouge open house will be held on Thursday, Aug. 2, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at 3332 South Sherwood Forest Blvd. Interested companies can meet Piccadilly chefs and executives, see a demonstration, ask questions and get a taste of the food. For more information, click here.

Good to go: Metairie-based Smoothie King Franchises Inc. is being sold to a South Korean company. Smoothie King currently has more than 600 units operating in 32 states, the Caymans and the Republic of Korea. The purchase price was not disclosed. Buyer SK USA Inc. is headed by CEO Wan Kim, a Boston University graduate who opened his first Smoothie King in 2003. Since then, Wan’s Smoothies Korea has opened more than 100 locations, and Wan says SK USA plans to open more than 1,000 new locations in the United States and worldwide by the end of 2017.