We’ve always thought that when it comes to helping operators achieve their goals, the National Restaurant Association and its counterparts at the state and local level had all the bases covered. But apparently, the needs of one group—Mexican chefs...

Thomas Keller wrote a book about it, molecular gastronomists around the world sang its praises and trendwatchers galore were positive that 2009 was the year sous vide cooking finally would take off. Appliance makers even began marketing home sous...

We, and perhaps you, have never thought of the headbanger demographic as being particularly interested in food. But Nicko McBrain looks at it differently. McBrain is the drummer for legendary heavy metal band Iron Maiden, and he’s come up with a...

We’ve had 99 cent meals at fast food outlets, two-for-one BOGO offers in casual dining and, as we reported last month (http://restaurant-hospitality.com/news/value-meals-hit-fine-dining-0928), even upper-echelon chains and their independent fine...

Let’s hope word of this doesn’t leak out. Voters in Ashland, OR, last week renewed a five percent tax on restaurant meals due to expire next year. That’s right, a city in Oregon, the state famous nationwide for having absolutely no sales tax...

The owner of Lucky’s, an Italian eatery in Kalamazoo, MI, who apparently hasn’t been quite so lucky, closed his two-year-old restaurant last year. Now he’s raffling it off...

The world is now divided into two camps: those who can’t get enough of the vampire-driven Twilight phenomenon, and those who are so done with it all. Put Annette and Tim Root in the former camp. They, after all, live in Forks, Washington, the...

Bargain-hunting vultures are circling around real estate like never before, so let’s take a look at two premier restaurant-related properties currently up for auction. Note that we’re not talking about commercial spots that would make great...

Whoever’s left standing after a season’s worth of cooking competition on Fox’s ever-brutal Hell’s Kitchen deserves a big prize. But what the winner typically gets is a job that, upon closer examination, has an impressive title but not much...