Cooking Under Fire's premise is that it gathers a dozen aspiring chefs from around the country to compete for the putative title of America's next great chef. There's no popular voting, like American Idol. Instead, a...
The Krispy Kreme saga has a familiar ring to it: Great product, rapid expansion, quality control problems, market saturation, then the sudden onset of big-time problems when the entire concept hits the wall. The...
Keep in mind that even though upwards of 73,000 people will attend next month's NRA gathering in Chicago, show admission dollars are not the dominant portion of overall trade show revenue. The real money comes from...
We'll let Tramonto and Trotter, both Beard Award-winning chefs, settle this tiff on their own. But the fact their dispute was front-page news in Chicago underlines the gathering storm that may soon envelop both the...
To be fair, the results of CSPI's research into the calorie-counting prowess of dietitians will be disturbing to many. The group partnered with New York University in asking 200 dietitians to give an eyeball estimate...
Who would believe you could build a five-unit chain of tribute restaurants based on the celebrity value of someone who has been dead for 28 years, one where the owners chose "country club attire enforced" as the dress...
Hey, everybody wants more reliability and improved ease of use. And suppliers of POS hardware, software and services say they have it, which is why IHL Consulting Group reported last week that the PC-based POS...
Bonnie Moore, head of the WCR Board, makes a strong argument for putting a woman in charge of the White House kitchen. "The White House kitchen has long been based on the male European model," she said. "We've only...
You know something is going on when a company with the stature of beer industry titan Anheuser-Busch rolls out a product like BE (pronounced B-to-the-E, with the "B" standing for "beer" and the "E" signifying "extra")...