FOOD-FRIENDLY: Beers with rich flavors offer food compatibility. SUPER SUDS FOR YOUR LIST: These are some of the world's best super-premium beers, ranked by The Beverage Testing Institute of Chicago. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, HARD ROCK...

COLORFUL COCKTAILS: Freckled Lemonade® serves as the inspiration for Agua Frescas at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers. The Absolutely Absolut® Freckled Lemonade combines strawberries, Absolut® Citron and Minute Maid® Lemonade. Few people understand...

—Jerald O'Kennard ...

HEALTHY & HAPPY: You can feed your kid customers healthful, tasty food and make a nice profit as well. In March, RESTAURANT HOSPITALITY held its first-ever Healthy Customers, Health Profits-seminar. The idea behind it was that restaurant...

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TALL COOL ONES: A variety of Italian sodas have been surging in sales at Bertolini's in the Forum Shops of Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. Sodas and carbonated drink ideas play an integral part in everyday life in this country. They're...

IT'S HOT AND IT'S COOL: Teas—black, green, or red— are expected to nearly double in sales by 2010. We should all have futures as bright as the one ahead for tea. George Jage, president and founder of the World Tea Expo, cites an industry...

Hoops 2006, an on-premise program, will use POS and interactive merchandise to establish a link between customers' passionate connections with basketball and drinking Miller Lite and Miller Genuine Draft while watching basketball games. For more...

SAVOR THE FLAVOR: Pair spicy cuisines with fuller-bodied white wines. GLASS ACTION: Offer food-friendly wines to keep guests coming back to your restaurant. Rock stars, Hollywood idols, celebrity chefs and reality TV participants are more...

—Robert Plotkins ...