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Please pass your book report to the front of the room

These two quick and easy reads will be helpful to any restaurant manager. There are a lot of ideas out there, but if you are pressed for time, these books will be particularly useful.

When big-time chain execs go back to their roots

Here are five former masters of the corporate chain restaurant universe who, by choice, chance or corporate circumstance, downsized, to say the least, and have never looked back.

Restaurant Business Magazine's annual ranking of the fastest growing small chains in America.

Although chicken and turkey costs are trending slightly upward, they are still better buys than red meat.

Seasonal and local ingredients are the foundation of the classic American cooking of The Water Club, a fine dining restaurant in New York City.

The latest flurry of earnings reports show clear sales and traffic improvement for a number of the sector's big brands.

Bad economy got you down? Core business just ain't what it used to be? Then get some ideas from these operators, who've developed some profitable sidelines.

Foodservice suppliers provide a look at products designed to make an operator’s job easier.

Operators get innovative to deal with lousy holiday sales forecasts.

First, it was Web sites and email marketing. Now, it’s all about mobile phones, smart coupons that know your location and sites and services that hook straight into local communities. Restaurants aren’t just places to grab some grub anymore. They are active participants in the social conversation with legions of tech-savvy customers.

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