Who said vaudeville is dead? Who said burlesque is dead? Not the people who run the Koi and Strip House restaurants inside Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. They’re busy serving dinner to the throngs lining up to see Jerry Springer host America’s Got...
If the amount of H1N1 vaccine available was commensurate with the size of the problem, restaurant operators wouldn’t need much guidance about how to deal with the current outbreak or the potentially larger one the health experts tell us still...
For those of you who offer sushi, watch out. A team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University has been keeping on eye on you, and they don’t like what they’ve been seeing...
You’re probably not surprised to hear that the anemic economy has undermined morale in the restaurant workplace. As a result, you should realize, a quarter of your workers are likely to bolt when the economy does pick up speed...
If you go by recent studies, restaurant operators are eager to put more fresh produce on their menus, to source that fresh produce as close to home as possible and to be sure the produce they serve is totally safe—even saying they will pay extra...
If you’ve been wondering what it would take to get chefs to move from embracing seafood sustainability to outright activism for it, check out the controversy that surrounds Alaska’s proposed Pebble mine, whose enablers include former Alaska...
Dale Levitski, a runner-up from the third season of “Top Chef,” impetuously took over a new restaurant in Chicago last week. It wasn’t exactly the lavish place he envisioned; instead, he’s calling the shots at Sprout, a 50-seat French-American...
We’ve always thought that when it comes to helping operators achieve their goals, the National Restaurant Association and its counterparts at the state and local level had all the bases covered. But apparently, the needs of one group—Mexican chefs...
Thomas Keller wrote a book about it, molecular gastronomists around the world sang its praises and trendwatchers galore were positive that 2009 was the year sous vide cooking finally would take off. Appliance makers even began marketing home sous...
We, and perhaps you, have never thought of the headbanger demographic as being particularly interested in food. But Nicko McBrain looks at it differently. McBrain is the drummer for legendary heavy metal band Iron Maiden, and he’s come up with a...