NRA Ed Sessions Provide Loads of DSR Consulting Fodder

If you’re headed to the NRA Show in Chicago later this month, be sure to take good notes at, or order tapes from, the myriad educational presentations targeting both menu innovation and profitability.

Here are nine of the more than 65 sessions scheduled:
•    Top Restaurant CEOs Reveal Successful Sales-Driving Menu Strategies for Overcoming Tough Economic Times
•    On the Menu: What’s Hot, What’s Not and What’s Next
•    The Breakfast Daypart: New Opportunities to Grow Sales
•    Controlling Costs and Maximizing Resources
•    Translating Healthy Trends in to Retail Profit
•    Building Catering into Your Restaurant Offerings
•    Translating International Trends into Restaurant Concepts
•    Guerilla Marketing for a Challenging Business Environment
•    Retail Foodservice from a Chef’s Perspective

For details and schedule information, www.restaurant.org/show.

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