Many people at one time in their lives dream of opening their own restaurant. They may have a great idea with the energy and devotion to make it happen. However, the one essential ingredient that they do not have is…
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OpenTable has announced the 50 winners of its Diners’ Choice Awards for the Top Restaurants for Brunch in the United States. The list of winners is derived from more than seven million reviews submitted by OpenTable diners for more than…
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The winners of this year’s S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list have finally been announced, and the Danish restaurant Noma has stayed in the number one spot for a second year in a row. Last year Noma rose to…
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If you had called for a reservation at the restaurant Noma in Copenhagen on Saturday, April 24, 2010, you could have dined there that night. By the time it next opened, the following Monday, you would have faced competition from…
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The ice cream sundae celebrates its 119th birthday Sunday, April 3rd. Since that time, ice cream sundaes have become a mainstay in the restaurant industry. The traditional ice cream sundae is made up of vanilla ice cream with a flavored…
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Book contains interviews with twenty owners from all over the U.S. (and one in Canada) who tell their stories and the lessons they have learned about how to be successful in a tough industry. Schedulefly, a leading web-based employee scheduling…
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The restaurant business has a very high mortality rate.  The reason for this high attrition is that many new restaurant entrepreneurs just don’t know what they don’t know about how to go about properly planning and opening a restaurant.  Unfortunately,…
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Imagine sitting at a fancy restaurant with important clients and your boss, and of all the people at the table, the waiter asks if you would like to choose a bottle of wine for dinner. Panic sets in and your…
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It seems that 2010 brought about a series of buyouts and capital investments for fast casual chains looking to improve their operations for the year. While the fast casual segment seemed to outpace the rest of the restaurant industry in…
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The bar is buzzing on a busy night at Chicago Cut steakhouse as regulars Keith and Peg Bragg sit at a high table scanning the wine list. Within seconds, they have all bottles under $40 at their fingertips using an…
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Mandi Welch has breakfast with her brother, Matt Tuttle, once a week at Panera Bread on Roosevelt Boulevard. So when he persuaded her to sign up for Panera’s new customer reward program, “MyPanera,” she figured it to be just another…
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Restaurant critics don’t like to announce themselves to the people and places they review. So they become the secret agents of journalism: They make reservations under assumed names, pay with others’ credit cards and occasionally even wear disguises when dining…
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NYC & Company, New York City’s marketing, tourism and partnership organization, today announced reservations for NYC Restaurant Week Winter 2011 will open on January 12. This season’s program features more than 300 participating restaurants, making it the largest NYC Restaurant…
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A chef’s toughest critic isn’t the woman at the corner table who sent back her cod, or the man at table five nibbling on a steak tartar appetizer — unless one of them is a Michelin inspector. Chances are, they’ll…
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The days of explaining exotic species of Hawaiian finfish to puzzled locals have passed at Grand Isle restaurant. After struggling through months when the oyster bar would sit idle for weeks on end, supplies from Terrebonne Parish and Galveston Bay…
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As the country began extricating itself from economic doldrums in 2010, which dishes and drinks did savvy food marketers and restaurant operators introduce or innovate to satisfy consumer needs? According to the Culinary Trend Mapping Report, a bi-monthly journal from…
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Zagat has released the results of its 2011 Seattle Restaurants Survey, covering 828 eateries in the Seattle area based on the collective opinions of 2,970 local diners. All told, surveyors ate out some 448,000 times in the past year. The…
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Chicago restaurant owners are mobilizing to block City Hall from creating an “unlevel playing field” for their brick-and-mortar businesses — by legalizing mobile food trucks with cooking on the premises. Five months after Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd) championed the idea,…
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Sharon Rowlands, CEO of Penton, announced today that the company has acquired Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN) from Lebhar-Friedman.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “NRN is a property Penton has coveted owning for some time,” said Rowlands.  “It is…
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