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My Favortie Food Towns

Seven restaurant people let us in on their extreme food vacation destinations.

11 for '11: Technomic Names Leading Restaurant Trends

As the nation begins to emerge from recession, restaurants are seeing lapsed customers return. Same-store sales are inching up, signaling the industry’s initial rebound to health; hiring is also up, signaling positive expectations for 2011.

Social media is here to stay, and your customers are expecting to find photos of your menu offerings. Give them what they're looking for without spending a fortune on a professional photographer by following these simple tips.

Starbucks has more social media fans and friends than any other concept. It also has a lot of enemies: 220 Facebook pages call for boycotting it (and that’s just the ones spelling “boycott Starbucks” correctly).

Attendees learned that there are three steps to building and promoting a local presence for your brand on Facebook:.

As Shake Shack has grown from its humble beginnings into a family of 15 stores in three countries, so has its social media fan base. To support their avid and active customers, they redesigned and relaunched their website.

One of our colleagues is convinced he should cap off an outstanding publishing career by opening a restaurant with a partner he barely knows. We’re still planning the intervention, but at least his kids are safe.

Operators decided this week that enough was enough. Fisticuffs erupted.

These are the brands people are talking about most, on and off social media.

Jumping in on a pop-culture moment can pay off for restaurant operators. But that sort of attention can also come with pain points, as McDonald’s was reminded over the weekend.

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