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...
If you think you've got a jam-packed schedule, check out what Richard Rosendale is looking at. Not only is he busy as executive chef/owner at his spectacular new Rosendales in Columbus, OH. He's also captain of the American Culinary Federation's...
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...
Certainly you don’t need to be told how tough it is out there in restaurant land. By many accounts, making ends meet hasn’t been this difficult in decades. In the wake of soaring oil prices and a government program to make ethanol from crops, the...
A few months back, Steven Greene returned from a several-week cooking gig with Thomas Keller at the French Laundry in Napa. The two had met months earlier when Keller cooked at Greene's restaurant during a food festival in Greenville, SC. Keller...
No one makes toiling in the restaurant industry seem more glamorous than the folks at the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. The DC-based group throws a black-tie gala each year to honor the city's best restaurants and most...