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Top 500 Chains

Village Inn

 Jun. 12, 2017

A chain serving up American comfort food and signature pies

Food

Romano’s breaks the 2-for-$20 mold

 By Peter Romeo on Nov. 13, 2013

Romano’s Macaroni Grill is pushing beyond casual dining’s staple two-for-$20 promotion with a limited-time tasting menu that raises the price for a party of two to $30.

Operations

This week’s 6 head-spinning moments: Fashion benders

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 15, 2017

Restaurants influenced more than food trends this week. Just ask those waifs in outlandish outfits who strutted the runways this week in New York City.

Marketing

How to rock social media

By Lindsey Ramsey on Jan. 13, 2014

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

Food

First Watch launches holiday menu

By Restaurant Business Staff on Nov. 07, 2017

The seasonal menu includes shareable and individual dishes as well as a themed beverage.

No-break buy in

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 18, 2014

If a restaurant staff knew how much a broken dish or glass cost to replace, they might be more careful when handling it—especially if they benefited from the savings in breakage.

Workforce

Restaurants find an ally in their fight to keep the tip credit: Servers

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 16, 2018

A newly formed national organization is aiming to combat proposals for disallowing the credit.

The week’s 5 head-spinning moments: hot openings edition

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 24, 2014

The week’s hot-openings news reveals more proof of a shift in fast casual, growing interest in Peruvian and why menu transparency may be more of a feint than a fact.

Cooking tests for executive chefs

By Jonathan Deutsch, Ph.D. on May 22, 2014

Are there any formats you recommend for executive chef cooking tests?

Pink or no pink

By Sara Rush Wirth on Jun. 17, 2014

A social-media meltdown last month could have been avoided if Phoenix burger joint The Attic had enlisted a practice in play at similar spots.

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