Chef Josiah Citrin's passionate and contemporary interpretation of French cuisine has won Mélisse two Michelin stars in the latest LA guide. Citrin's devotion to culinary mastery started early and contrasted sharply with his other early love...

Everything connected with David Overton's first two concepts, The Cheesecake Factory and Grand Lux Cafe, is big: their menus (200-plus items at Cheesecake; 150 at Grand Lux), their portions, their dining spaces, their lines to get in and, most...

This is no time to be shy with your guests. To ride out the current economic doldrums and beat out the competition, you need to enlist their loyalty, give them more reasons to keep you in mind on those possibly less-frequent dining occasions, and...

After the Closing of his acclaimed New York City restaurant, Cello, Laurent Tourondel changed direction 360 degrees and began creating a series of relaxed but stylish eateries. Now his French-influenced, casual fare is found in many states, with...

Chronic health problems, childhood obesity, special diets, food allergies, a diabetes epidemic, a better-informed public: Americans may still like to indulge, but with dining out so ingrained in our fabric, more often they also want something that...

If you've spent some years in business, you know that tough times come and go. Whatever the state of today's economy, whether we are entering a recession or not, it isn't going to last forever. Eventually, every restaurant experiences periods when...

We're not sure he needed one, but Dean Corbett came up with a dandy gimmick for his new Corbett's — An American Place restaurant in Louisville. Thanks to a network of strategically positioned microphones, cameras and flat screen TVs, guests seated...

You Don't Have to Look hard to see Peter Karpinski's fashionable, eclectic style in any of Sage Restaurant Group's properties. Sage operates Second Home Kitchen and Bar, an urban retreat putting a modern spin on timeless favorites, and The Corner...

You can't get more things right about restaurant chain development than founder Steve Ells and the rest of his management team have done at Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG). Ells and company created their then-idiosyncratic fresh-Mex concept back in...

In today's tight business-for-sale marketplace, an owner's willingness to finance the sale gives him an edge over the competition. But owner financing isn't for the faint of heart. To stay on track, sellers need to follow some obvious — and not so...