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How your restaurant sales and profits compare to competitors' and what you can do to improve financial performance

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Drinks with a plus

By Restaurant Business Staff on Mar. 07, 2008

The category of “plus” beverages has surged far beyond sports drinks—it’s huge and growing bigger every year.

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Q & A with Jean Bernstein

By Restaurant Business Staff on Sep. 13, 2006

A conversation with Jean Bernstein

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Buy cheap TV time

By Restaurant Business Staff on Mar. 14, 2008

Flynn Dekker, VP of marketing at Dallas-based Steak and Ale, needed a new ad campaign. He wanted TV and its broad reach, but didn’t think he could afford it. Then he discovered Spot Runner.

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Checking in on 2010 growth plans

By Dana Tanyeri on Dec. 01, 2010

Restaurant Business in January spoke with five emerging chains whose executives shared their companies’ growth plans for 2010.

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PE dealmakers to discuss what opens their checkbooks

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 26, 2011

Hands-on dealmakers will discuss current restaurant-company valuations and the next wave of private-equity acquisitions during a keynote presentation at the 2012 Restaurant Leadership Conference.

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Spring's in full swing

By Patricia Cobe on May 01, 2012

With flowers blooming and vegetables sprouting in colder climes as early as March this year, chefs in the Midwest and Northeast were able to get a head start on spring menus.

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Certain agricultural products are staples in your restaurant kitchen. Commodities like meat, nuts, dairy foods, potatoes and other types of produce show up regularly on your order list. Here’s a brief overview of how these ingredients are trending, gleaned from information provided by the commodity boards that serve the growers, ranchers and farmers of these products.

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