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Getting big profits from water sales

Bottled water is one of the most profitable items you can sell, yet a growing number of fine-dining restaurants are dropping it from their menus.

Really, it could have been a hot dog cart

The high profile drama unfolding around Red Lobster and Olive Garden should be familiar to any restaurateur with investors and years of success.

Late-night dining is the rage, so maybe it’s time to think about keeping the doors open a little longer.

A return to COEX yields some stealable practices from restaurateurs you probably don’t know but should.

Menus from restaurants featured in the July 2008 issue of Restaurant Business, including the 2008 Future 50 restaurants.Front stories & featuresMorton’s...

Hot smoked salmon and housemade relish give bagels and lox a different twist for restaurant menus.

Menus from restaurants featured in the November issue of Restaurant Business magazine Where’s the Wheat?Legal Sea FoodsBonefish GrillAndina RestaurantG.F...

Despite sales of brand-name soft drinks declining, operators are luring customers with creative, housemade sodas.

Thinly sliced fish traditionally served raw with sea salt and lemon juice, crudo is Italian in origin but is now being fused with an assortment of global flavors. Restaurants nationwide are even featuring crudo sections on the menu to promote the fresh simplicity of this appetizer.

The challenge: to create a “home-run” salmon dish that could supplant the grilled salmon that had been on Brio Tuscan Grill’s menu since day one.

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