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Food

Healthy drinks, dessert beverages and beer milkshakes

 By Thomas Henry Strenk on Feb. 01, 2013

Healthy beverages and delectable drinks may seem to be at opposite ends of the spectrum, but they’re moving closer all the time.

Guru of marketing

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Mar. 28, 2002

Restaurant marketing is not about handing out coupons or writing scripts for radio advertisements.

Consumer Trends

Consumers' favorite chains

By Sara Rush Wirth on Jan. 15, 2014

Find out which chain restaurants reigned supreme—and what they’re doing right.

Watch your step!

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. 07, 2005

Encouraged by a strong economy, restaurant chains are growing with confident—if somewhat conservative—steps.

Leadership

Hazem Ouf: The Challenger

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 04, 2015

Hazem Ouf doesn’t profess to have all the answers for reviving restaurant organizations, even after snatching the likes of Village Inn, Max & Erma’s and O’Charley’s from the ICU.

In their own words

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 16, 2005

Jeffrey Chodorow, Laren Gartner, Edna Bayliff, George Katakaldis, Rick Doody, John Metz, JR. Six very different entrepreneurs on the lessons, the labors and the passions of the restaurant life.

Ruth’s Chris sends cease and desist to pop-up Indian steakhouse run by David Chang

Sep. 03, 2015

The parody pop-up, originally named Ruth Krishna’s Tandoori Steakhouse, is rebranding as Randy Krishna’s.

Five Critical Business Relationships Every Entrepreneur Must Nurture

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 23, 2007

But there is one big difference: while matrimony is all about maintaining a healthy relationship with another person, being married to a business is all...

2016 Top 500 restaurant chains

Jun. 21, 2016

More than half of the restaurant industry’s $491 billion in sales come from the Top 500 chains. And these giants grew at a modestly stronger rate, both in terms of sales and store counts, than the industry overall. Restaurant Business focused on the leading 250 performers to identify trends for our first-ever special report delivering lessons from Technomic’s annual Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. This special package includes lessons for all operators from the largest chains by segment, menu category and more.

EMERGING CUISINES: North African Crossroads

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 01, 2008

The strategic location of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria along the NorthAfrican coast has played a major role in their culinary legacy.Although the three...

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