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How to rock social media

By employing creative and time-tested social media techniques, these brands have fans buzzing.

Another investor’s curbside treasure?

Some of the restaurant industry’s best-known and most-venerable brands are providing acquisition opportunities seldom seen outside of a yard sale. Are they dream purchases, or just badly worn bread makers headed for the attic?

When Donaberger first started at Saladworks, the Conshohocken, Pa.-based chain had 10,000 Facebook fans and 1,000 Twitter followers. In the span of just over a year, he has more than doubled its Facebook fans to 26,000 and quadrupled Twitter followers to more than 4,000.

Two days into a think tank for 1,200 restaurant executives, a half-dozen currents hijacked the discussions.

Hey boss, what you call employees is important.

Join the editors of Restaurant Business and social media mavens from the industry for breakfast on Tuesday, April 1 from 7:00 a.m. until 8:30 a.m.

Laura Jakobsen, senior vice president, marketing and design at Pinkberry, gives advice to women striving to become innovative leaders.

Here’s what other RLC attendees took away from Day One of the 2014 Restaurant Leadership Conference.

Ideas flew like golf balls at a driving range during the four days of the Restaurant Leadership Conference. Here are a dozen the editorial staff of Restaurant Business regarded as particularly worth retrieving.

Restaurants’ policies try to keep up with the times.

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