NRA Announces 2009 Restaurant Neighbor Award Winners
WASHINGTON, DC (Sept. 15)—The National Restaurant Association has announced the winners of its 2009 Restaurant Neighbor Award, which recognizes restaurants...
Ravioli
These craveable pillows of pasta are being filled with all sorts of tasty, seasonal ingredients both light and hearty. And sauces are taking a creative turn away from classic tomato.
When you take three Iron Chefs out of Kitchen Stadium and place them before a live audience of avid listeners, they are very willing to forget their TV rivalry and battle scars. That was quite evident when Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto and Jose Garces traded quips on a Times Talk panel during the TV Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival on October 9.
You can’t learn everything in culinary school. Or business school. Some lessons you’ve just got to learn on the job. With that in mind we set out to gather a little collected wisdom from the industry on how to do some of the more obscure tasks an operator might face. Challenges abound out there. Hopefully this will help get you through a few of them.
The NRA Show draws quite an international list of attendees and one of the regulars is Peter Backman, managing director of Horizons, a foodservice research and consulting company based in London. Every year, we sit down for a quick meeting to compare notes about restaurant trends in America and Britain. Here are some of the things I learned during our May 6th chat.