This month's issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine is reporting on a Healthy Menu Study that concludes, in part, that most restaurant chain executives are primarily concerned about growing sales and...
Every year this magazine stages its Concepts of Tomorrow Conference, which was created to help up-and-coming restaurant concepts grow into powerhouse chains. Who doesn't want to own the next Chipotle or Panera Bread...
Did you catch Jeffrey Chodorow's full-page ad in the New York Times? Chodorow is the owner of New York City-based multiunit restaurants China Grill and Asia de Cuba, as well as the now-shuttered Rocco's on 22nd, which...
When Food & Wine named Paul Kahan one of America's Best Chefs in 1999, his restaurant Blackbird was already beginning to secure its legendary status in Chicago. The restaurant is so highly regarded, in fact, that when...
In this current issue, you'll find a report on the state of the restaurant industry (page 41). It's something we do every year to gauge how you and industry experts believe the year ahead will turn out. The good news...
A friend the other day said to me "Hey, you should open a restaurant!" That was about the thousandth time someone has said that to me because they know I like and write about restaurants. What they don't understand is...
How does a gal from Pittsburgh end up creating a culinary buzz in Sonoma, CA? Well, with lots of talent and plenty of airline miles. After Chef Janine Falvo graduated from the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute in 1998...