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Move Over Beef, Americans Are Eating More Chicken

 By Restaurant Business Staff on May 22, 2012

CHICAGO, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Beef may not be 'what's for dinner.' After the recent report of mad cow disease in California, combined with the bad...

Living wages

 By Sam Smith on Aug. 27, 2013

Forty years ago there was no expectation that a fast food job would pay a living wage, much less support a household.

Workforce

The importance of mobilizing workers

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 23, 2014

Until The Home Depot opened its 500th store, co-founder and then-CEO Bernie Marcus personally trained every manager. “I don’t mean I spent a few hours with them and gave them a speech,” says Marcus, now age 84. “I spent days with them.”

Financing

Finding the sweet spot

By Sara Rush Wirth on Oct. 14, 2014

Is finding just the right spot in just the right neighborhood still the prime factor in opening a restaurant?

ID Innovator of the Year Ben E. Keith Foods: Improving Perfection

By Restaurant Business Staff on Nov. 24, 2003

Ben E. Keith Foods of Fort Worth, Texas has shown that perfection can be improved. Respected as an industry leader on many levels and a keystone of the...

Survivors ready?

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 15, 2005

Crap happens. Take a page from some savvy fellow operators and meet the challenges with our Survival Guide.

How to build buzz

By Restaurant Business Staff on Nov. 04, 2006

It's the hottest, well, buzzword in marketing. Buzz. Everybody wants it. Not everybody has it. And to get it, best you forget the old lingo of media buys,...

Real Estate: Opportunity Knocks

By Restaurant Business Staff on Sep. 01, 2008

The lousy economy could mean good news for chains with cash to expand.We’re like a buzzard,” says Mike Lassiter. He’s talking about the real estate...

NY State Restaurant Association Closes Two Offices, Expects Conditions to Worsen

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 03, 2009

Both workers at the two-person Rochester office were laid off; no jobs were displaced at the Long Island location, which was operated by a management group...

Technomic: Focused Positioning Helps Pizza Chains Grow

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 01, 2009

CHICAGO, IL (Sept. 30)—Despite flat sales in 2008 and into 2009 throughout most of the limited-service pizza industry, some chain operators are finding...

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