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Restaurant owners worried that they can’t keep up with the proliferation of new location-based social-media platforms need not despair. Those applications are set up to complement restaurants’ current social-media and digital-marketing efforts...
We design and deliver multiunit leadership development workshops for the top 100 foodservice companies around the globe. In these interactive programs with area managers and multiunit franchisees, we share fresh research, best practices and common...
NEW YORK —The James Beard Foundation has named the 397 semifinalists for its annual awards, which go to restaurants, chefs, restaurateurs and wine and spirits professionals across the country. This is the second year the James...
During what’s become a three-year segmentwide sales slump, casual-dining operators have tried just about everything to spur sales, from discounts and bundled meals to two-for-ones and freebies. To keep the lights on, many also have cut operational...
It didn’t have the Tiger Woods scandal’s sex appeal or the corporate comeuppance of Toyota’s recall, but Domino’s Pizza’s mea culpa came at a time when Americans were getting attuned to and cynical of the public apology.While Domino’s never hurt...
Whether it comes as a result of the enormous popularity of “Mad Men” or the current renaissance of the American cocktail, or perhaps a combination of the two, that quintessential cocktail hour classic, the martini, is back in vogue. By this I do...
When it comes to growth, Todd Parent, founder of the 41-unit Extreme Pizza chain, believes that restaurateurs should learn to walk before they run.Or, to put it in the parlance of the extreme-sports-theme pizza concept, one should learn to swim...
EMERYVILLE Calif. Jamba has introduced a new line of novelty ice cream bars in retail stores and added four salads to the grab-and-go menu at Jamba Juice locations as part of its plans to expand licensing and boost in-store food offerings.The...
LOS ANGELES Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck will soon debut an Asian-inspired restaurant in The Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles, which opened recently in Los Angeles’ new downtown entertainment center, L.A. Live. To be called WP24, the fine...