The notion of selling prepaid tickets for high-demand restaurant meals like they do at Next, the new Grant Achatz operation in Chicago, seems like a can’t-lose proposition. It is financially—all the money comes in upfront. But when you factor in...
How’s this for brand leverage? Tourists still flock by the thousands to shop catalog giant L.L. Bean’s flagship retail store in Freeport, ME. Now Linda Bean, an experienced restaurant operator and entrepreneur deluxe, has opened Linda Bean’s Maine...
It was one thing when bogus wild salmon turned up in New York City. But now researchers have found farm-raised Atlantic salmon menued as wild caught Pacific salmon at restaurants in Tacoma, WA, home port for a number of actual wild salmon...
Good food in airports? Not bloody likely, you say. But High Flying Foods aims to change that. Brothers Glenn and Garret Meyers, San Francisco-area restaurant operators, hatched the idea in 2000 after one especially abysmal airport meal. They...
Ever think of preselling special meal packages online to help raise cash to open your new restaurant? Chef/owner John Brandt-Lee tried this tactic and got 112 customers to respond, enabling his Avalon Pasta Bistro to open in Downington, PA last...
We already know that reality show America’s Next Great Restaurant winning concept Soul Daddy is the fastest chain restaurant failure in history. Now, courtesy of an SEC filing, we’re getting an inkling of how much money was lost in the process, at...
One thing you don't know about me is that I can sing exactly like Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. If I could trade places with one chef it would be Marie-Antoine Carême. He got us to see food as an art form and not just as a necessity to survival...