3 Lessons From A Wine Bar Owner
3 Lessons From A Wine Bar Owner
Aug 01, 2011
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Could A Bike Race Crash Quiznos?
Could A Bike Race Crash Quiznos?
Aug 01, 2011
No doubt sandwich chain Quiznos will reap a publicity bonanza from its sponsorship of the USA Pro Cycling Tour in Colorado later this month. But will spending a big part of its marketing budget on a bike race be deemed a frivolous expense for a...
NRAEF Seeking Candidates for 2012 Kudos
NRAEF Seeking Candidates for 2012 Kudos
Jul 25, 2011
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Best Practices To Avoid Hiring Mistakes
Best Practices To Avoid Hiring Mistakes
Jul 25, 2011
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Prepaid Dinner Reservations: Meet The Scalpers
Prepaid Dinner Reservations: Meet The Scalpers
Jul 22, 2011
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...
Best Family Restaurant Location Ever
Jul 22, 2011
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...
Salmon Fraud: Say It Isn’t So
Salmon Fraud: Say It Isn’t So
Jul 18, 2011
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...
Prepared for Takeoff
Prepared for Takeoff
Jul 14, 2011
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...
Start-up Loans, No Bank Required
Start-up Loans, No Bank Required
Jul 07, 2011
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...
Soul Daddy: Where Did The Cash Go?
Soul Daddy: Where Did The Cash Go?
Jul 06, 2011
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...
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