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The World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Association (FAO) estimate that bird flu could claim 70 million lives...

AROS lets the customer choose specific food options and add any special instructions. No staff time is consumed by phone calls or menu questions.

Foodservice suppliers provide a look at products designed to make an operator’s job easier.

Salut Bar Americain is but the latest in a string of concepts created by Phil Roberts.

Over 100 years ago, when Restaurant Business magazine was founded as Soda Fountain News, signature soft drinks were the only kind around. Back then, the “soda jerk” was a carbonated confection artist similar to today’s coffeehouse baristas. They juggled jugs of syrups and jerked the handle (and thus the term) of the fountain to dispense soda water, mixing up “phosphates” right in the glass.

It’s not going to do you much good if you go broke outfitting the back of the house. But if you use a little creativity here, a little elbow grease there, you can have a first-rate kitchen with money to spare. Take a look at what these inventive operators did with a little money and a lot of ingenuity.

Want to beat the big guys in this game? You’d better find the right corner—or in-line or end-cap. “Of all the decisions a new restaurant owner will make, the biggest is real estate,” says Steve Greene, COO of Camille’s Sidewalk Café in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Want to beat the big guys in this game? You’d better find the right corner—or in-line or end-cap. “Of all the decisions a new restaurant owner will...

How do you share best practices across a chain and cut the need for management to be a problem solver? Get franchisees to share ideas in a secure, Web-based intranet community. Know many owners who'd gladly post their monthly P&L on the Web for peer review? Didn't think so.

Disposables' growth will be fueled by rising disposable personal income levels and increased spending on food eaten or prepared away from home, the...