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8 Rivers Restaurant Offers Medicinal Marijuana Cooking Classes
In the year 2000, Colorado legalized what some call “Mary Jane” or “Ganja” to be used legally as medical marijuana. Some feel that the benefits of medical marijuana would be better attained with methods other than smoking.
Colorado restaurant owners Wanda James and Scott Durrah decided to offer monthly gourmet marijuana cooking classes at their Caribbean [...]
Is this the Right Time to Open a Restaurant?
According to many financial analysts, this might be a great time to open a restaurant.
Granted, others might call this advice crazy, since many owners have watched sales plummet and customers disappear, as diners considered cheaper alternatives to eating meals out.
Still, if one is a savvy entrepreneur, the advice may be valid, even in what is [...]
Protesters Make Camp Inside Famous French Restaurant
Since October 23, chefs, assistant cooks, waiters, plongeurs, and dishwashers have camped out 24 hours a day in a corner of the French chic restaurant Georges, a favorite spot among the jetset. They have red flags and lounge on pink plastic sofas around the restaurant’s stylish bar. [see photo]
“French cuisine is famous throughout the world,” [...]
Highlights from Brooklyn Eats 2009 – The Restaurants
We attended the 12th Annual Brooklyn Eats Event at Steiner Studios last night. First of all, we’d like to say kudos to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce for organizing the event. There was good flow of people, not too much bottle neck at the tables and a good assortment of beverage to food ratio on [...]
Full StoryThe World’s Smallest Restaurant
Solo Per Due, located in central Italy, is about an hour’s drive north of Rome. Wonderfully romantic and serving exquisite, local gastronomic specialties, Solo Per Due has the distinction of being the world’s smallest restaurant. In Italian, the name means “Just for Two,” and true to form, it has just one table, for serving one couple at a [...]
Full StoryVirginia Restaurant that Popularized “Death by Chocolate” Sold to New Owner
No visit to Virginia’s historic Colonial Williamsburg would be complete without a visit to the Trellis Restaurant, the popular anchor eatery in the heart of the Merchant Square shopping area. But after nearly 30 years, six million meals and a collection of honors and awards, the Trellis is being sold by co-owners Marcel Desaulniers and John Curtis to David [...]
Full StoryCreate Your Very Own Virtual Restaurant
Launched five months, Restaurant City was created by Playfish, a company that specializes in social games for platforms including Facebook, MySpace, Google and iPhone. The virtual restaurant game Restaurant City draws more than 10 million users a month on Facebook, where 10 million virtual restaurants have been created and more than 200 billion virtual [...]
Full StoryInterview with Chef Mark Paul from Wink Restaurant in Austin
The first interview in the FriendsEAT Chef Series is with Chef Mark Paul who is currently working at Wink Restaurant. Here’s what he had to tell us.
FriendsEAT: Did you grow up cooking?
Chef Mark Paul: Absolutely- My father’s family were farmers in North Carolina, so we grew up around a table, snapping beans, shucking corn, [...]
Win a $1 Million Dollar Restaurant
“You can’t sell a restaurant in this economy,” restaurant owner Jeff Parker told KVAL News. “Let’s give it away.” Jeff Parker and Myra Plant, owners of the world famous Tolly’s Restaurant in Oakland, Oregon are having a contest, and for $500 you can win their famous restaurant debt free.
Parker and his partner Myra own the [...]
So You Want To Open A Restaurant — Are you crazy? Part 2
This is the second installment in a 10-part series on “How To Open and Run a Restaurant“. In part one we discussed general business considerations and market research. Let’s briefly continue along those lines.
As I previously mentioned, market research is a key element in laying the foundation for a successful business strategy. The referenced Bloomberg [...]
