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 [...]

Paradou Owner Vadim Ponorovsky Curses Out Employees

A recent email from Paradou restaurant owner, Vadim Ponorovsky to his employees has been leaked to Gawker. It is a classic example of the “proper” way to teach your employees on the way to harvest emails from restaurant clientele.
Here is the leaked email from Gawker:
To All,
Please read this email carefully. This is the last time [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Chef Michael Long

Chef Michael Long of Opus Restaurant has transformed the dining scene in Littleton. The restaurant has brought upscale dining to the forefront of Colorado. Trained at the CIA, Chef Long took what he picked up working at La Vielle Maison in  Boca Raton, the Inn at Bay Fortune in Canada, Topaz Cafe in St. Augustine and [...]

Fonte Opening Coffee and Wine Bar in Seattle

Fonté Coffee Roaster is celebrating the grand opening of its new café and wine bar at the elite Four Seasons Hotel in Seattle, to coincide with Coffee Fest this Saturday, September 26. Located in a bustling area of downtown Seattle, across the street from the Seattle Art Museum and just blocks from the Pike Place [...]

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 5

In our last installment we discussed funding, and the need to work up sales and financial projections for a business proposal. To arrive at your potential sales projection, it’s necessary to anticipate what your customer volume will be and add the projected volume figures to the sale price of the items you will include on [...]

Nightmares Series Celebrity Chef Uses F-Word 115 times/40 Min

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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay spewed off the f-word 115 times in the first 40 minutes of a two-hour Ramsay’s Great British Nightmare, screened on Channel 4. Media watchdog, Ofcom, claimed it had received 51 complaints about the swearing, and found Channel 4 in breech of “swearing rules“.
“The sheer intensity of the language in [...]

The Dazzling Marketing Power of Online Restaurant Reviews

In the world of popular culture, the adage is “You’re no one unless you’ve been on T.V.” How times have changed. The web has catapulted withdrawn reclusives into to the global spotlight within minutes. And so it goes for restaurants. Online restaurant reviews have crested on the foodie scene making them one of the most [...]