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How to talk like a cool restaurateur …

If the staff yells “Nerd alert!” every time you enter the room, read this now.

Cocktail napkins

Often the recorder of lunch-time business plans, cute girls' phone numbers and Warhol-worthy doodles, the cocktail napkins can take on additional duties as a service tool.

Not so long ago, only a restaurant chain with the heft of a McDonald's or an Applebee's or a Red Lobster could get a major food manufacturer to produce...

Panama’s lauded crop loses ground to development.

Cheese prices have been heading skyward for months.

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

America loves Maine lobster, that claw-heavy creature with the snow-white flesh that seems made for melted butter. Tying on a bib and getting up close and personal with a whole boiled Maine lobster is the epitome of summer feasting for many.

Your menu is the only piece of printed advertising that you can be almost 100 percent sure will be read by your guests. That’s a reminder from Kristen...

(November 21, 2011 - The Packer)—With diesel fuel prices hovering near $4 a gallon, distributors are finding it hard to ignore the pinch. The national...

What will I do if a huge, highly successful restaurant from a national chain moves nearby? In many cities across the nation, restaurants have had to close their doors simply because they could not compete with the new neighborhood Goliath. The following are exciting promotional tactics that operators can use to instantly boost business. These strategies are designed for smaller businesses to continually outmaneuver their larger competitors.

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