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How your restaurant sales and profits compare to competitors' and what you can do to improve financial performance

RLC attendees look for answers about the recovery’s direction

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 28, 2011

Voicing agreement that the worst is over for restaurants, attendees of the Restaurant Leadership Conference said they came to the Scottsdale, Ariz., event with an ear cocked for insights into chains’ near-term prospects.

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Kickstart your funding

By Amanda Kooser on Jan. 01, 2012

Kickstarter is the biggest of a breed of sites that lets artists and business owners place their projects in front of the world and collect donations.

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Making room at the bar

By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 31, 2012

The competition at the bar continues to heat up. Often that translates into a larger and more eclectic inventory—and a larger footprint.

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Waste contracting without throwing money away

By Steve Coomes on Sep. 27, 2013

Try these smart strategies for negotiating and managing trash removal.

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Highest-volume independent steak houses

Oct. 15, 2014

Even as sales at full-service restaurants sputter along, growing at 2.4 percent in 2013 according to Technomic, sales at steak concepts are leading the pack with 6.2 percent growth.

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Not all restaurants suffer the ‘Groupon effect,’ study finds

By Kelsey Squire on Jul. 10, 2015

Newer and upscale restaurants are less likely than others to be seen as struggling when offering daily deals—and may actually benefit by doing so, a new study suggests.

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How to balance speed and service

By Amanda M. Westbrooks on May 17, 2016

Servers need to be equipped to walk guests through a DIY process in a short period of time, like Blaze Pizza's eight to 10 minutes, while still delivering hospitality.

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Fast casual has angst to overcome

By Scott Hume on May 25, 2017

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote that “maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists,” and so it has been with the coming-of-age fast-casual restaurant segment.

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