Here’s an interview line guaranteed to land you your dream restaurant job: “Molecular gastronomy? Sure, I studied it at Harvard with Ferran Adria and Jose Andres.” And you can say it if you attend the course these world-famous experimental chefs...
Serve bluefin tuna at your restaurant? Then you know the market for it seems insatiable, no matter how stratospheric your menu price might be. So what will you do if and when this hot-selling customer favorite lands on the endangered species list...
The assistant manager of a Seattle Jack in the Box was arrested last month after police concluded that she had staged a robbery at the store. Michelle Meisner initially claimed to be a victim of two men who pistol-whipped her and held up the...
The latest news reports have given us a glimmer of hope that the economy may finally be recovering. While that's a welcome sign for most organizations, it may not be good news for all. A recent Conference Board survey found that 55 percent of all...
Do you get full eating a quarter pound hamburger? If so, you should probably stay away from the new burger at Mallie’s Sports Bar & Grill in Southgate, MI. The suburban Detroit restaurant believes it recently broke the world’s record for “the...
Think chain restaurants have all the advantages? They’ve got plenty, but the calorie-posting mandate embedded in the new health care bill sure isn’t one of them. It’s not the cost of compliance, sizable as that might be. It’s the slower service...
The good news: The National Restaurant Association’s Star of the Bar competition, conducted via YouTube, will give your mixologist a chance to win a $5,000 cash prize and become an industry star. The maybe-not-so-good news: Rules of this National...
Keep an eye on your morning sales volume this week. Yesterday morning, April 5, Subway began selling breakfast sandwiches system-wide—and with 23,000 locations in the U.S. alone, it’s a mighty wide system. Other sandwich chains are getting ready...
They've mostly conducted their careers outside the media glare that shines on the full-service restaurant industry, but Jonathan Bennett and Michael Hislop are in the spotlight now. Each has been named a recipient of a prestigious 2010 Silver...
In today's survival of the fittest, are you doing all that you can to stay lean and mean? We scouted around for some ideas to trim the fat, and here's what we found...
