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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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This week’s 6 head-spinning moments: Sales therapies

 By Peter Romeo on May 12, 2017

Cheesecake Factory says it has a second fast-casual venture in the works, Dunkin' convenes a workforce Woodstock, Noodles clears the table and McDonald's touts its merits as a first job.

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Buying potatoes, the comeback kid

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 13, 2006

The potato has been bashed more often than mashed these last couple of years, as carbohydrate-phobic Americans pushed spuds off their plates and consumption took a nosedive.

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Questions for your broadline distributor

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 13, 2007

Distributors describing themselves as broadline, or full-line, vary greatly in terms of the product lines they carry. Is it really a one-stop shop?

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Borrow from a credit union?

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 12, 2006

Across the country, credit unions are expanding their loan programs as small- to medium-sized businesses seek alternatives to traditional funding sources like larger banks.

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What's happening at the table across the pond

By Patricia Cobe on May 23, 2011

Restaurant Business sat down with Peter Backman, managing director with Horizons, a London-based foodservice consultancy, to compare restaurant trends in the U.S. and the U.K.

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Warming weather is affecting key food items

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 01, 2012

Rising temperatures in the years ahead could have a direct impact on a wide range of food items.

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New and noteworthy in drinks: chocolate wine and aged cider

By Thomas Henry Strenk on Dec. 01, 2012

Wine snobs may cringe, but red wine flavored with chocolate is a rapidly growing trend, especially among Millennial consumers.

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Restaurants’ new reality: ‘tax-rate shopping’

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 21, 2014

Sharp differences in state and local sales taxes are prompting both consumers and businesses like restaurants to alter their shopping patterns.

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Getting on the shelves: Licensing lessons

By Sara Rush Wirth on Mar. 02, 2015

Licensing products doesn't have to be a huge undertaking. Brands with small programs that they say are lucrative as well as simpler to maintain—and began with relative ease. For restaurateurs looking into licensing, there are lessons to learn at every level.

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2015 Top 100 Independents: the ranking

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 16, 2015

Restaurant Business’ 2015 Top 100 Independents ranking spotlights the country’s top-grossing restaurants with no more than five locations. View the full ranking.

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