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- Social networking can damage careers. Keeping your cards close to your vest. Forbes.
- Dealing with dilletante internet reviews. Portland Business Journal.
- Profound labeling changes proposed by the Federal Alcohol Tax Bureau would include AVA information.
- The restaurant noise problem: The Washington Post suggests that diners are increasingly irritated by high noise dining environments.
- Mid level restaurants appear to be faring better than high end locations under the current challenging economic conditions. Part of the competition for butts in seats is the home kitchen.
- Caution in choosing a business partner Karen Klein offers basic and sound advice in Business Week on choosing a business partner. A must read for anyone considering going into business with a friend or offering new hires partnership rights.
- Coping creatively with rising product prices. (Forbes)
- Menu labeling issues: A New York court has postponed the recent law requiring calorie labeling on some menus, while the Georgia Restaurant Association has proposed a preemptive law which would not permit local legislative bodies to pass laws influencing restaurant menus.
- A Reuters article identifies nearly every popular modern food trend as a risky eating habits and urges education on the dangers on sushi, rare meat and other pleasures.
- Chain restaurants are going green
- The world's most expensive foods
- Table scalping is a new development in New York and some other restaurant towns enabled by Open Table and other on line reservation systems. It is upsetting restaurant owners and customers alike.
- Dining trends identified for 2008 by the Orlando Sentinel. Most of these are already prevalent in California.
- A predicted effect of strict immigration policies on food cost.
- Small business strategies for dealing with the economic downturn from the San Diego Times
- Creating employee satisfaction
- Gen Y, The Millenials enter the job market.
- Americans drinking more wine
- The evolution and current state of tipping(Wall Street Journal).