Can’t cook but you want to be part of a restaurant reality show? Your time has come with the arrival of NBC’s United Plates of America. All you need is a good idea for a new restaurant and an audition tape that explains how it would work. Win and...
At the new Julio César Chávez Campeones in Mesa, AZ, nobody tells the guys who want to fight to step outside. Instead, combatants are welcome to hop right into the dining room’s full-sized boxing ring to settle their differences. It’s just one of...
Well after brands like Hard Rock Café and Planet Hollywood have the music-themed dining landscape covered, Rolling Stone magazine has recently decided to extend its brand to the restaurant niche. The publication plans to open its first Rolling...
Desperate times call for desperate measures, but two cash-strapped Auckland, NZ restaurant owners took things too far. The pair recently bought themselves four-year prison terms after fire-bombing their business last year, then trying to file an...
You don’t have to be a genius to identify dangerous floor surfaces in your restaurant or to figure out why they are slippery. So why are we suggesting you think about bringing in an outside expert to document just how bad they might be? Three...
We’ll find out soon how health care reform will play out for restaurant owners. But let’s look at who has the sweetest restaurant-specific health care setup going right now. It’s the 15 New York Çity operators who participate in Dr. David Ores’...
While it may seem from media reports that culinary schools are the predominant suppliers of cooking talent to restaurants, most of the people who cook professionally came up the hard way. Which is why so many of the applicants you interview for...
One thing you don't know about me is that I cry at movies. I even cried at Legally Blond when the character succeeded at the end - I was touched! I love when the underdog wins and the bad guy loses. If I could trade places with one chef it...