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Peter Romeo

Editor at Large

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Peter Romeo

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Small plates from the first day of the Restaurant Leadership Conference

It’s a little-known rule of physics: Put a group of restaurant leaders in a room and you’ll get an unvarnished picture of the business. Pull almost 1,800 of them together, as we did at the Restaurant Leadership Conference, and you quickly learn what they see as the opportunities and challenges, the hype and the real successes.

Pat Cobe recipient of International Foodservice Editorial Council's Betty Award

Restaurant Business senior editor Pat Cobe has been named the 2012 recipient of the International Foodservice Editorial Council’s top honor, the Betty Award.

Technology

Are you a hacker's next mark?

Once the intruders find a way into the technology of a certain chain, they’ll proceed franchisee by franchisee or restaurant by restaurant.

Technology

Today's restaurant tech may need some catch-up

Imagine if the course of food trends was reversed and home kitchens suddenly became the source of the best and most interesting culinary ideas. In that alternate reality, restaurants would be the followers, not the innovators, hoping to catch up with customers who were routinely more inventive and advanced.

A restaurateur's long day at the Republican convention

The seat assigned to Frank Steed at the Republican National Convention was reported by Bloomberg News to be the worst in the 21,000-person arena.

Food

'Lettuce on aisle 9, right by the condoms'

The formidable Duane Reade drugstore chain is stepping up its challenge to restaurants by including a made-to-order salad station in its latest store.

Slowing down fast food helps waistlines, study finds

If regulators really want to lessen fast food’s impact on obesity, they should mandate Kenny G playlists and dimmer switches for McDonald’s and the like. Or at least that’s the implication of a new study on ambiance’s influence on calorie consumption.

Chipotle takes another route to help military vets

Easing military vets into jobs or franchising opportunities isn’t the only way restaurant chains are helping those who served. Chipotle, for instance, is...

Divisions surface on nutrition disclosure

The industry’s division over the feasibility of pending menu labeling rules was underscored Tuesday when an alternative plan was put forth with the support of a newly formed restaurant trade group.

Financing

What's your restaurant worth?

If you fantasize about selling the restaurant and spending the rest of summer at the beach, a new study provides a pinprick of reality about the payout you can expect.

Oh, that smell

Secretly sniffing your pits to see if that’s the source of the aroma crinkling guests’ noses? It’s probably not your hygiene, Bunky. A new listing of the most atrocious restaurant odors suggests you follow your nose to the back of the house, or even out the back door.

Military proves an exec training ground for restaurants

The publicity benefits of hiring military vets may be as obvious as this story. But many restaurant leaders have a more vivid reminder of the business payback. All they have to do is think of their executive teams past and present—if not their own resumes.

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