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

Patty action

By Restaurant Business Staff on Mar. 01, 2010

When it comes to grabbing share of stomach and dining-out dollars, burgers are leading the charge.

Knowing cheese, buying cheese

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 12, 2006

Although most operators order cheese by name, there are specific categories that the dairy industry uses to describe cheeses for foodservice buyers.

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Seasonal beers on tap

By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 07, 2007

Once upon a time, beer brewing followed the agricultural rhythms of planting and harvest and celebrated the seasons.

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What's your beef?

By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 29, 2010

It’s a tough time for meat lovers. Top quality beef is scarcer and very expensive and cash-strapped customers are trading down from steak and chops to burgers.

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Anti-energy: “Relaxation” beverages ride a backlash

By Thomas Henry Strenk on Aug. 01, 2011

Are energy drinks running out of gas? Do they belong on your beverage list anymore? And what about the emerging sleeper category of “relaxation beverages”?

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Shopping (and selling) tips from dealmaking pros

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 30, 2012

A Murderer’s Row of industry dealmakers took the stage at the Restaurant Leadership Conference to air their widely different approaches to finding and profiting from restaurant acquisitions.

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