Cooper's Hawk

Beverage

Top bar trends of 2014

Intrepid consumers are venturing into new beverage alcohol territory.

Leadership

Cheesecake Factory vet takes helm of Not Your Average Joe's

Peter D'Amelio succeeds founder Steve Silverstein, who assumes operation of the concept's first store.

A new analysis also shows what differentiates a good user-generated review from a negative one.

Peter D'Amelio has also served as president of Cooper's Hawk and CEO of Matchbox.

The contemporary concept offers modern American dishes and barrel-aged wines made in-house

Offering a varied menu of modern American dishes, designed to complement its handcrafted, barrel-aged wines made on-site

Overall, the varied menu category is flat, up .3% in sales to $23.9 billion and .5% in units to 7,792.

Maple flavors are growing at lunch and dinner and in beverages.

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