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| Organic industry grew nearly 10 percent in 2011 |
The U.S. organic industry grew by 9.5 percent overall in 2011 to reach $31.5 billion in sales. The organic food and beverage sector was valued at $29.22 billion, according to the Organic Trade Associa
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| Pairing cocktails with Food |
As cocktails have moved toward center stage at many restaurants and nightspots, both restaurants and their customers have been looking to pair cocktails with food. The trick is to compromise the taste
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| How restaurants can succeed with Pinterest |
In the fast-changing social-media world, new platform darlings appear at a regular clip. The latest, Pinterest.com, seems to be pinning competitive hopes to the wall and drawing interest from restaura
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| Top Ten Best Restaurant Management Practices |
1. Say goodbye to Flash. Say hello to WordPress. We’ve already covered why Flash is bad for your restaurant website (it isn’t visible on mobile devices like iPhone and iPad, it does nothin
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| Tips with everything: Chefs reveal their craftiest kitchen tricks |
Angela Hartnett Chef patron for Murano and the York & Albany pub in London. I always add a pinch of sugar when using tinned tomatoes as it takes away the acidic taste but be careful not to make th
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| Consumers Cutting Back on Restaurant Use for Different Reasons |
CHICAGO -- It isn't just consumers whose wallets are emptier these days who are choosing to save money by cutting back on their restaurant patronage, according to a new study by market research firm T
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| How restaurants can leverage the new Facebook Timeline |
With Facebook’s recent changes to its brand pages, marketers now have more ways to leverage the thousands of “likes” they have spent the past few years acquiring, according to a new
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| The secrets of food photography |
Have you ever flipped through a magazine or browsed the web and salivated over the images of food: That glistening strawberry that looks so good you can practically smell its summery deliciousness; th
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| Ceviche: The next food trend |
Mathieu Rostaing-Tayard, the best young chef in Lyon, recently sold his néo-bistrot Le 126 to travel the world, looking at culinary trends. It comes as no surprise that he plans to visit China
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| Foursquare for the Bar or Nightclub |
What is Foursquare? Foursquare is a social media platform that utilizes modern geolocation services people use with their mobile devices or cell phones. For instance, when walking into a bar, one can
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| Fulfilling Generation Next |
Overgeneralizing about generations has become a great American pastime. Baby Boomers? They’re typically depicted as children of privilege, post-war babies whose sheer numbers have ensured an out
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| Arizona Food Show Feb 28th Feb 29th ! |
Arizona Food Show
Phoenix Convention Center
Feb 28-29 10-4pm
Find out all the details HERE.
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| 3 Tips for Choosing Which Social Media Site Is Best for Your Restaurant |
Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, UrbanSpoon? HELP!
Restaurateurs are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the many options for social media marketing today. How do you decide which site
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| Restaurants??? Traffic to Remain Flat in 2012 |
New York (RestaurantNews.com) The U.S. restaurant industry is bracing for another year of disappointing growth, as dining frequency is expected to drop slightly or remain flat over the next 12 months,
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| Five keys to creating great customer experience |
Five keys to creating great customer experience What makes a restaurant experience memorable for a customer – nine times out of 10 – is how they're made to feel rather than what they eat,
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| Mandatory sodium restrictions aren't the way to go, NRA says |
In comments filed this week, the National Restaurant Association told the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agirculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service that government manda
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| How restaurants can set themselves apart in 2012 |
What do you see as the difference between daily-deal sites such as Groupon and Restaurant Weeks? Discounting in general and deal sites in particular can be predatory and unproductive, especially when
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| How to handle a negative online review |
It’s human nature to want to defend yourself when online reviews take swipes at the restaurant you’ve spent years of time, toil and cash to build, but it’s almost always better to se
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| Kick off 2012 with a smart social media strategy |
January 3, 2012 -Smartblog on RestaurantsThis guest post is by Andre Kay, CEO and CMO for Sociallybuzz, which provides social media management, marketing, fan page management and social media consulta
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Strawberry & Ricotta Gratin
