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Fast-growing restaurant chain focuses recruitment on Toys R Us employees

The Main Event food-and-games concept is holding an open house for Toys R Us staffers who have or are about to lose their jobs.

Financing

Getting on the shelves: Licensing lessons

Licensing products doesn't have to be a huge undertaking. Brands with small programs that they say are lucrative as well as simpler to maintain—and began with relative ease. For restaurateurs looking into licensing, there are lessons to learn at every level.

Marketing

4 ways of cashing in on 'Game of Thrones'

By Benita Gingerella on Aug. 23, 2017

The night is dark and full of themed menu items and events.

5 lessons for restaurants from the world’s most innovative company

By Kelly Killian on Feb. 13, 2015

Eyewear retailer Warby Parker tops Fast Company’s list of groundbreaking brands as much for its approach to customer service as its inventive ideas. Here’s what restaurateurs need to know.

Operations

5 hot ways rooftop bars are warming up for winter

By Heather Lalley on Dec. 15, 2017

Here’s how operators in cold climates ensure their rooftops reel in off-season sales.

Concept to Scout: The high-frequency Simmzy’s

By Sara Rush Wirth on Mar. 06, 2015

Simmzy’s restaurant prides itself on being a neighborhood joint with a large following of regulars who come in multiple times a week—the goal of every operator outside the white-tablecloth sector. Here's how this “Cheers” of southern California attains high-frequency traffic.

What are they getting into?

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 16, 2015

Announcements of diversification have picked up fast and furiously of late, be it a new product, new prototype or new concept entirely.

Financing

Managing the wait

By Amanda M. Westbrooks on Apr. 22, 2015

Flipping tables and seating guests is a dance, requiring a mix of attention and tech to keep the pace.

Marketing

Catching a buzz

By Kelly Killian on Jun. 01, 2015

When it comes to buzz specifically, it’s about innovation and differentiation, says Chris Tomasso, chief marketing officer of First Watch Restaurants and a board member of the National Restaurant Association’s Marketing Executives Group (MEG).

UK sushi operator named world's most innovative restaurateur

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 10, 2016

K10 was honored for its high-tech, high-volume operations, as well as the spinoff of a secondary concept featuring beer, buns and wings.

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