Food & Beverage - 7 Pricing Tricks: how many can you use? - By Ken Burgin
With customers searching for value and the best deal, pricing strategies need to be smarter than ever. ...more

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Restaurant Trends - Growing And Emerging Concepts - Data reflects change and activity from April 18, 2008 to August 18, 2008
Update from Restaurantchains.net on growing and emerging restaurant concepts ...more

Bartenders Disclose Best Strategies for New Drink Promotions
According to bartenders, if you want to persuade patrons to try new drinks, your best strategy is to offer special price promotions. Over 70 percent of bartenders in a recent Technomic survey agree that this is an effective approach for launching new offerings, particularly in neighborhood bars, at nightclubs that offer entertainment, and in casual-dining restaurants. ...more

Energy Drink Explosion Hits Food
Mintel expects energy drink buzz to spill over into food, snacks and candy ...more

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Darden Restaurants Announces Expected First Quarter Diluted Net Earnings Per Share and Revises Fiscal Year 2009 Earnings Outlook
Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE:DRI) today reported that it expects diluted net earnings per share from continuing operations for its fiscal first quarter ended August 24, 2008 to be between $0.57 and $0.59, including anticipated integration costs and purchase accounting adjustments related to its acquisition of RARE Hospitality International, Inc. (RARE) in October 2007 which are expected to adversely affect diluted net earnings per share for the quarter by approximately three cents. ...more

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Americans always make room for dessert
The front line in America's battle to preserve its sanity, creative spirit and good cheer runs through places like Allen & Son Bar-B-Que in Chapel Hill, N.C., where regular customers know the menu will carry five or six pies, a half-dozen puddings and fruit cobblers, ice cream, cookies, and always, always the cream cheese pound cake with cream cheese icing. ...more

Tampa Restaurant Says No to Cruel Shark Finning
Ivory Mandarin Bistro joins national campaign to end shark finning by taking shark fin soup off its menu ...more

Starbucks Introduces Customers to Exquisite Flavors of a New Coffee Collection
Clover(R) Crafted Small Batch Coffees debut in three select U.S. cities, offering customers the chance to savor rare and unique coffees brewed to perfection ...more

Restaurant Brands Show Staying Power
QSR magazine highlights quick-serve anniversaries, Jared Fogle's ten years of weight-loss success ...more

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