Tarrant Business

Texas Roadhouse opening Southwest Fort Worth restaurant

Texas Roadhouse is opening its first Southwest Fort Worth steakhouse, Monday at 4720 S.W. Loop 820,

This weekend, the restaurant, which will have 155 employees, is hosting invitation-only special events to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“As a child, my younger brother had cancer and was granted a wish from this incredible organization,” PJ Puzzuole, managing partner of the group that owns the restaurant, said.

- Scott Nishimura, jobs and workplace reporter, Star-Telegram

Waxahachie aluminum companies layoff off 350

Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas says it dispatched its Mobile Workforce Unit to the Waxahachie Workforce Center today, to help 350 workers laid off when International Extrusion, US Aluminum, and Raco -- all sister companies -- "shut down overnight."

The mobile unit is a 38-foot vehicle outfitted with 13 computer stations and a satellite internet system that can help clients search for jobs, beef up their resumes, and apply for unemployment benefits online.

The unit will be at the Waxahachie Workforce Center until 4 p.m. Thursday.

- Scott Nishimura, jobs and workplace reporter, Star-Telegram