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Ask the butcher

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. 15, 2006

Q&A with Ron Savenor

Financing

Getting big profits from water sales

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. 13, 2007

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.

Cheese Outlook

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 07, 2008

Last year, strong milk prices paid to farmers coupled with rising fuel costs caused a spike in wholesale cheese prices.By the summer of 2007, commodity...

Yancey's

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 12, 2009

At Yancey's, an independent broadliner founded in 1939, the push is on to build better relationships with customers. That means, among other things, more...

Financing

Lessons from the downturn

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 24, 2010

Picture a busy intersection capped with four different, well-known restaurant chains. Ask any consumer which one they want to go to, and the answer will probably be, “Whichever has the shortest line.”

Consumer Trends

Rising food prices forcing change in diets

Jun. 30, 2011

People across the globe are changing their dietary habits because the price of food is increasing exponentially. Particularly in the poorest countries, cutbacks on the quantity and quality of food are being seen due to rising food costs, states a report by Oxfam America.

Financing

A tempered, but positive industry forecast

By Sam Smith on Mar. 28, 2012

The industry—in line with the economy—is experiencing a very uninspiring recovery. But a recovery nonetheless.

Food

Firehouse Subs' smokin' hot sandwich

By Patricia Cobe on Feb. 01, 2013

The Smokehouse Beef and Cheddar Brisket has been heating up the menu at Firehouse Subs since its launch, and now it’s starring in a special 90-day promotion. What makes this sandwich such a hot ticket at the Jacksonville, Florida sandwich concept? It starts with the meat.

Financing

Restaurants’ sales to rise 3.6 percent in 2014, NRA forecasts

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 16, 2014

Restaurants will vie this year for a 3.6 percent increase in total industry sales, which should hit an all-time high of $683.4 billion, according to the just-released business forecast of the NRA.

Handle with care

By Bill Main on May 29, 2003

"Marrying" bottles of condiments has been the bane of servers since the beginning of time... well, at least since the beginning of sidework.

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