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MAKING A LIST, AND CHECKING IT TWICE
Oct 31, 2006
It's important to remember that the Michelin Guide is, first and foremost, a business venture. In that light, its inaugural 2006 guide to the New York City dining scene was a big success, with more than 100,000 copies...
UNTOUCHED BY HUMAN HANDS
Sep 29, 2006
We've often wondered why operators failed to embrace the Roomba®, the vacuuming robot first introduced to consumers back in 2002. By all accounts, the silent, sleek-looking machines from manufacturer iRobot do a...
WHO SAYS THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES IN LIFE?
Sep 29, 2006
Everyone agrees that full-service restaurants would be better off if their waitstaffers would adopt a more European attitude toward their job-an honorable profession and a worthy career. It's no wonder they do. Many...
WHEN GREEN WAS NOT NECESSARILY CLEAN
Sep 29, 2006
As of late September, tainted spinach had sickened people in 25 states across the U.S. The outbreak was primarily a supermarket industry event, although the potentially tainted spinach could have crossed over into...
Off to a Flying Start
Sep 01, 2006
ALL IN: Forget outside investors. Jeffrey and Anna Elena BraÒa opened their new restaurant with their own money. BEYOND THE MANGO GANG: Chef Jeffrey BraÒa says that "when it comes to flavors, there exists an...
BAIT AND SWITCH, SEAFOOD STYLE
Aug 31, 2006
Because so much of the end product is hunted down on the open seas and then moves through loosely regulated distribution channels before reaching full-service operators, certain types of seafood have always been...
SORTING OUT THE SLOWDOWN
Aug 31, 2006
We noted in our July 31 e-newsletter ("Blame It On Chipotle") that a key factor we saw in the casual dining slowdown was the proliferation of lower-priced but very-close-in-quality food options in the fast casual...
POLITICALLY INCORRECT
Jul 31, 2006
Brooks didn't originate the Hooters concept. He bought the rights to it in 1984 when Hooters was a single-unit operation in Clearwater, FL. It was primarily a bar then, but began to emphasize food, particularly...
BUILD YOUR BUZZ WITH BLOGS
Jul 31, 2006
Anything goes in the blogosphere these days, where an estimated 50,000,000 blogs worldwide-you read that right-spew forth a torrent of online opinion 24 hours a day. There's so much to sift through it seems unlikely...
THEY LIKE YOU! THEY REALLY LIKE YOU!
Jun 30, 2006
One reason to pay attention to the Consumer Reports study is that its findings are unusually broad-based. Ratings are based on more than 66,000 responses to the magazine's Restaurant Customer Satisfaction Survey...
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