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This week’s 6 head-spinning moments: Surprises. Or not.

Unexpected developments abounded in the restaurant business, from a surge in popularity of hurling hatchets to new revelations about how much some restaurants pay.

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"Marrying" bottles of condiments has been the bane of servers since the beginning of time... well, at least since the beginning of sidework.

Here’s what you need to know to buy the animal-friendly products that many of your customers are starting to demand you serve.

Atkins is over, and South Beach has had its day—but Americans are purportedly more health-conscious than ever before. Following, what you need to know about four major types of diners.

McDonald’s is remixing its Happy Meals to cut the calories by 20%.The big savings: The replacement of a small order of fries with a new “child-size”...

Quite a few restaurants mix up their own soft drinks these days, but Oak at Fourteenth in Boulder, Colorado, takes the idea a step further by bottling housemade sodas with a high-tech double carbonation system.

Economists tend to bicker, but there was at least one source of agreement in their 2013 forecasts: food prices are going to increase 2 to 4 percent this year. With restaurant patrons still pinching pennies, raising menu prices may not be the best solution. So what are the alternatives?

Two days into a think tank for 1,200 restaurant executives, a half-dozen currents hijacked the discussions.

S&M (provocatively named after a Rihanna song), has been slinging exotic meats and savory cocktails to mustached millennials since November.

As part of the burger giant's revamp efforts, CEO Steve Easterbrook announced plans for hotter, juicier burgers by way of new searing procedures and increased bun-toasting time.

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