At first we thought Denver restaurant Ganja Gourmet’s severely limited target demographic—medical marijuana cardholders—would preclude economic success. Then we noticed its pricing—$10 per cannabis-laden brownie, $89 for a pot-laced pizza. And we...
We’ve long held that celebrity chef-led prime time TV cooking shows stir up so much interest in food and dining that they ultimately work to the benefit of all full-service restaurant owners, not just a particular show’s participants. Could Gordon...
The concept seems stuck in the 1950s. The menus are strictly old-school. And the pace of unit expansion is funereal. In fact, nothing is very sexy about Cincinnati-based Frisch’s Restaurants, Inc., except its financial performance over time. It...
We’re not endorsing the nutritional seasonings being marketed as “foodceuticals” by their maker, VitaminSpice. But we’re intrigued by the idea behind these products. They would enable operators to accentuate the positive about some nutritional...
Chris Santos, chef/partner of Stanton Social and a frequent judge on The Food Network’s Chopped cooking show, has one of the more colorful collections of tats in the food world. What you can see pictured here on his left arm is a full sleeve...
Can’t get financing for your new restaurant? Upland, CA, wants you anyway, and it has created a Restaurant Attraction/Incentive Program to get you on board, including market-rate loans the city itself will make. Even the loan caveats are operator...
If you ever feel burnt out on your career as a restaurant owner, consider how attractive your life looks to outsiders. How else can you explain the latest move by multi-billionaire industrialist Richard Branson, who’s scheduled to open Ninety...
Nearly three years after walking away from the stoves, RH Rising Star Melissa Perello has returned, this time as chef/owner of Frances, her new spot in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood...
December: Truly great ideas tend to flow from one of two channels. The first, let’s call it the genius channel, represents the potential for brilliant insight facilitated by empirical observation and deft data crunching. While ideas from this...
It’s bad enough when a robber points a sawed-off shotgun into the drive-thru window of a Wendy’s restaurant, but when the would-be bandit turns out to be the son of the restaurant manager, things go from bad to weird...