Restaurant Industry News Archive for 2004

A study published by Cornell University found that the 'best table' from a guest’s point of view may not be the best for the restaurant owner. The conclusion comes from analyzing the relationship between table location and customers’ spending habits.

Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record $476 billion in 900,000 restaurant locations in 2005, according to the National Restaurant Association's 2005 Restaurant Industry Forecast.

Complaints by teenage female workers to managers were allegedly not addressed and employees were apparently not trained in how to report harassment.

Cereality(R) Cereal Bar & Cafe, the breakthrough restaurant concept that brings the experience of 'all cereal, all day, all ways' to life -- will move its company headquarters from Boulder, Colorado to Chicago in early 2005, as it also adds depth to its management bench by hiring a chief operating officer who is a former executive of Starbucks Coffee Company.

Canadian restaurateurs who are sick of rising dairy prices made a special delivery to decision-makers in Ottawa on Dec. 9 — dozens of pizza boxes packed with 3,600 protest cards.

Anthony Stella believes that the dining climate is much different now than when he opened his restaurant, L'Osteria Cucina Italiana, in Penny Hill 10 years ago.

Restaurateur Tammy Presnell has been slicing tomatoes a little thinner these days.

Visions of sugar plums may dance in our heads at Christmas time, but many Americans are lucky if they manage a pan of slice-and-bake cookies from the supermarket before the full rush of the holidays is upon them.

He's pretty sure it's not his name on the door that is bringing people into the restaurant. It's been a decade since John Offerdahl suited up as an inside linebacker in the Miami Dolphins defense, and his gridiron feats have begun to fade from memory.