Chains look to licensed products to drive revenues amid soft sales
Chains look to licensed products to drive revenues amid soft sales
Mar 17, 2008
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Chefs high on low-temperature cooking’s ability to streamline kitchen operations during service
Chefs high on low-temperature cooking’s ability to streamline kitchen operations during service
Mar 17, 2008
Some chefs have moved beyond the age-old culinary practices of cooking meats directly over fire or in smoking-hot sauté pans. Instead, they favor lengthy low-temperature cooking with gear like cook-and-hold ovens, combi oven-steamers and immersion...
FPI survey: Packaging suppliers more optimistic about ‘08 than operators
Mar 17, 2008
FALLS CHURCH, VA. —A recent survey conducted by the Foodservice Packaging Institute, based here, found that that more than two-thirds of manufacturers and their suppliers of single-use foodservice...
Nothing but net profit: Restaurants can win big by actively courting sports fans
Nothing but net profit: Restaurants can win big by actively courting sports fans
Mar 17, 2008
It’s still weeks away, but two things are already certain about April 7, the day of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament championship.One, I’ll shed a few tears—that “One Shining Moment” montage gets me every time—and, two, I’ll be enjoying all...
On the Menu: Restaurant Kelly Liken
On the Menu: Restaurant Kelly Liken
Mar 17, 2008
When Kelly Liken opened her namesake restaurant in the heart of the village of Vail, Colo., in 2004, Ski magazine wrote that the young chef “rattled the village’s culinary boy’s club.” But Liken, now 31, says the restaurant she owns with husband...
NSF’s Tong: Temperature monitoring improves food safety
Mar 17, 2008
Seeing that foodservice operators get the most out of equipment and supplies for food safety is an important part of the job for Jennifer Tong, the recently named director of the Restaurant Food Safety Division of NSF International, a nonprofit...
Big Apple Bagels co-brands with Subway in breakfast push
Mar 17, 2008
OSWEGO Ill. The franchisor of Big Apple Bagels said a franchised Big Apple Bagels Xpress unit has opened inside a new Subway store in this suburb of Chicago. The bagel station will be positioned as a breakfast option, with a morning menu of bagel...
Kevin Rathbun Steak’s modern decor eschews the status quo
Kevin Rathbun Steak’s modern decor eschews the status quo
Mar 17, 2008
ATLANTA —Kevin Rathbun Steak, housed in a former cotton warehouse from the 1890s in the Inman Park neighborhood here, is not “your dad’s steakhouse,” according to the chef-owner whose name graces the...
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