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 Biggest Restaurant 
 No-Nos, Part 2 

Owner offers another 50 ways to please guests, keep job

Nov 5, 09 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Bruce Buschel isn't out of touch. "I realize that every deli needs a wisecracking waiter," he writes in the New York Times, "and burgers always taste better when delivered by a server with tattoos and tongue piercing(s)." But at his soon-to-open restaurant, these rules (coupled... More »

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 The Biggest Restaurant No-Nos 

Owner lays down the law with these rules for staff

Oct 29, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The seafood restaurant Bruce Buschel is building will have excellent service—or else. Some staff members, he acknowledges, "will no doubt protest some or most of what follows," but he's the boss, and he presents 50 rules in his New York Times blog. A tasting menu:
  • "
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servers • restaurant • seafood • dining • restaurant industry • waitress • waiter

Opera Diva Faces Jail
in NY Cell Phone Tiff

Soprano shoved restaurant manager after complaints

Oct 23, 09 5:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Argentine opera singer could face jail after a fight broke out in a New York restaurant over her cell phone screeching. Soprano Gabriela Pochinki, 41, and her daughter were shouting into a cell phone on speaker and refused to stop after fellow diners complained. Security camera footage shows the... More »

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cell phones • restaurant • opera • trespassing

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 Worst Food Trends 
 of the Decade 

From onion blossoms to overhyped chefs, these things need to go away

Oct 22, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Asked to name the decade's worst dining trends, chefs and other food experts couldn't shut up. There were too many (including "mache, water sommeliers, organ-meat entrees, unisex bathrooms, bacon tattoos on chefs, over-flaunted kitchen burns, chefs tables") for Christopher Borrelli to list them all, but he hits the... More »

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food • reality TV • Internet • fast food • restaurant criticism • restaurant • online review • KFC • dining • onions • Jay-ZTV • food trends • hamburger • women's issues • celebrity chef • Hardee's • Carl's Jr.

 10 Dirty Restaurant Tricks 

Eateries cut corners and assume you won't notice

Sep 23, 09 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Restaurants are known to cut a few corners for the sake of their bottom lines. Slashfood sheds some light on dirty little industry secrets, including:
  • Using cabbage instead of seaweed: An ex-maître d’ at an upscale Chinese joint says the chef assumed his celebrity clientele wouldn’
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food • cost cutting • restaurant • restaurant industry

Subway Will Soon Have More Stores Than McDonald's

But sandwich chain still lags behind McD's in sales

Sep 22, 09 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Subway is nearing a milestone: the sandwich chain will soon have more global locations than McDonald’s, Ad Age reports. The chain is expanding so quickly that it's expected to have 31,800 stores by the end of the week. It's probably just a matter of months before it surpasses... More »

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globalization • McDonald's • fast food • restaurant • Subway

DNA Testing Snags Fish Imposters

Restaurants often swap cheap fish for pricey ones on menu

Aug 24, 09 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you ordered grouper ($12 per pound) at a restaurant, and the chef slipped you catfish ($2.50 per pound) instead, could you tell the difference? Most diners can’t, which is where Mahmood Shivji comes in. Shivji’s a DNA researcher, who’s developed a method of testing the... More »

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DNA • fish • restaurant • seafood

(Newser) - A consumer activist group is taking Denny's to court over the "dangerously high" salt levels in the restaurant chain's food, Reuters reports. The suit, filed on behalf of a New Jersey man with high blood pressure, seeks to require Denny's to list the sodium content of its food on... More »

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diet • restaurant • salt • sodium • Denny's • restaurant chain

(Newser) - Just a year ago, 25% of the country's highest-grossing restaurants were in Las Vegas—where diners ran up $15,000 checks and tipped waiters with wads of C-notes. But now restaurants are closing, new construction languishes half-finished, and more than 5,000 food industry workers have lost their jobs. "... More »

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Las Vegas • restaurant • recession • CityCenter • restaurant industry • waitress • waiter

(Newser) - A dastardly online organization has taken prank-calling to nefarious highs and is being investigated by the FBI, Fox News reports. PrankNET and its leader, “Dex,” have used untraceable Internet phone calls to:
  • impersonate a corporate honcho and make KFC employees spray down their entire restaurant with fire
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social networking • Internet • FBI • federal investigation • restaurant • hotel • property damage • prank call • PrankNET

 Prepared Food Aisle 
 Is the New Restaurant 

Restaurants take hit as customers opt for cheaper grub

Jul 13, 09 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cash-conscious consumers who’d rather not cook are increasingly ditching restaurant dinners in favor of grocery stores’ prepared meals, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. At some stores, prepared-food sales have jumped 7% to 10%, says an industry consultant. For their part, supermarkets are hawking a bigger and better selection of... More »

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food • restaurant • recession • supermarket • grocery stores • economy • grocery shopping • prepared food

Restaurant Boots Gay Men After Kiss

Police cite 'right to refuse service'; others blast discrimination

Jul 10, 09 11:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Five gay men were ordered to leave a Texas restaurant after two of them kissed, the El Paso Times reports. One called police to lodge a discrimination complaint—but an officer backed the restaurant guards’ decision because same-sex public kissing was illegal, said one of the men. In fact, a... More »

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gay rights • Texas • police • discrimination • restaurant • El Paso • homosexual

 Trend Alert: 
 Gourmet Pizza 
 Heats Up 

Pies in new 'stratosphere of respect'

Jul 8, 09 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - In recent years, a new culture has developed around pizza: “It’s scrutinized and fetishized, with a Palin-esque power to polarize,” writes Frank Bruni in the New York Times. That means debates over oven types, varieties of flour, the virtues of buffalo mozzarella. The new “stratosphere of... More »

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food • gourmet dining • restaurant criticism • restaurant • pizza • buffalo mozzarella

 The Most Overused 
 Menu Descriptions 

From 'grilled to perfection' to 'garden fresh'

Jul 6, 09 6:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tired of menus that use the same old phrases over and over? So are the food critics at the Chicago Tribune. They nominated nine menu clichés for the compost pile:
  • "Grilled to perfection": Subjective to the point of meaninglessness. And why always grilled, and not “
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food • advertising • cooking • steak • list • restaurant • chef • menu

Hell's Kitchen Chef Sees Profits Fry

Ramsay pours millions into failing biz, admits 'ambition overtook me'

Jul 4, 09 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Burned by plunging profits after a year of dizzying expansion, Hell’s Kitchen star Gordon Ramsay admits he bit off more than he could chew. Profits at Gordon Ramsay Holdings, which the fiery chef co-owns with his father-in-law, have dropped 90%, forcing the pair to pour more than $8 million... More »

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profits • restaurant • recession • Gordon Ramsay

Twitter a Delicious Marketing Tool, Restaurants Find

Microblogging website allows for quick communication with customers

Jun 29, 09 3:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Restaurants are finding Twitter a highly useful marketing tool, allowing for direct communication with customers other forms of advertising can’t provide, the Boston Globe reports. Boston’s Tupelo (@tupelo02139), for example, used a Twitter feed to post updates as the restaurant passed inspections, set the décor and decided... More »

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social networking • Internet • marketing • restaurant • Twitter • restaurant industry • microblogging

(Newser) - Innovation in cocktails has spread to their simplest component, the Globe and Mail reports—ice. “Ice is the equivalent to a stove for a chef,” says one bartender whose watering hole boasts three kinds of frozen water. Another Canadian bar produces seven varieties for different drinks. Mixologists... More »

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cuisine • restaurant • drinks • ice • cocktails • bar

 8 Funky Boozing Trends 

Esquire lists the hottest trends you'll be seeing at a bar near you

May 30, 09 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you’re going to consume conspicuously, you may as well imbibe in style. Esquire distills eight drinking trends coming to a bar near you:
  • The Enomatic, a high-end wine vending machine. This auto-sommelier pours a perfect glass every time, leading some bars to cut out the middleman (in
... More »

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wine • beer • restaurant • absinthe

Starbucks
Looks to Cut Back on Rent

Coffee chain presses landlords for 20%-25% reductions

May 29, 09 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Starbucks is asking some of its landlords for a venti favor: lower lease rates by as much as 25%, Bloomberg reports. With the real-estate market in decline, a rep says, “We’re taking advantage of the opportunity,” adding that most landlords foresee a “mutually beneficial situation.”... More »

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real estate • Starbucks • restaurant • rent • lease

'Housemade'
the Latest Word in Fine Dining

Artisanal flavor sets cuisine apart from mom's 'homemade'

May 24, 09 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - A word that isn’t yet in the dictionary has been cropping up on menus across America: “housemade” is the new trend. Don’t confuse it with “homemade,” which has lost its buzz and now suggests an unprofessional cook or a hokey menu-writer. “Housemade has more... More »

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food • restaurant • linguistics • menu • Jay-ZTV • foodie

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