To further his restaurant writing career, John Foley decided to open a restaurant. After designing, developing, opening, operating, closing and selling eight restaurants in 10 years, Foley now writes about the business he loves to observe.
While reading Gabriel Hamilton best selling book, Blood, Bones and Butter, I could tell the author is more Drake's Sandwich Shop than she is Zingerman's.Hamilton's pages engross the reader from the very first...
Herman Cain has had a stumble that apparently occured while he was President of The National Restaurant Association. But Cain has little knowledge of the episodes in question, proving once again there is life after the restaurant business. Cain...
(Blogger's Note: This is the first in a three part series on the current online coupon wars and how restaurants and consumers benefit from the deal.). This probably isn't any new news, but urban streets...
Although I should be used to it by now, the lack of customer service in certain sectors of business, other than restaurants, continues to perplex my senses. With the unemployment rate still staggeringly high, it would seem working individuals would...
Seaweed and Fish Roe were two of the delightful ingredients in the complimentary dish Tony Ounpamornchai created Friday evening at Sea Thai Bistro in Santa Rosa, Ca. As I took my first bite I wondered if I might be eating...
Santa Clara, California. Happy Meal, that little bonus that kids from all walks of life experienced when they purchased dinner, lunch or snacks, was executed last night in Santa Clara, California. Happy was 31 years old.
Born in 1979, Happy...
San Francisco restaurants have suffered for more than a year with the economic downturn the country experienced. Yet, they seem to be doing better than restaurants in other parts of the country. The last time restaurant owners experienced the type...
Los Angeles experienced a 4.4 earthquake yesterday, joining the long list of sudden quakes that have shook and demolished buildings and homes around the world.
The recent span of earthquakes may have been caused from Julia Child rolling over...
San Francisco restaurateurs, Pat Kuleto and Michael Dellar are among the James Beard Award semifinalists for the 2010 Restaurateur of the Year Award. Kuleto, who opened Fog City Diner in the 1980's in what was then known as...
When Chicago Tribune writer Christopher Borrelli wrote his insightful piece of how the art of being a regular, or developing them, has become a software tracking procedure that offers more information than any regular would care to have known Charles...