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		<title>Expansion on menu for restaurateurs despite economic downturn</title>
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The $566 billion restaurant industry is unforgiving; it’ll leave a naïve entrepreneur broke and out of business within a year – in a good economy.
In this economy, even a savvy restaurateur is capable of losing everything – but there are local entrepreneurs taking risks opening restaurants and hoping for the best.
Of the notable openings, Trevor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill Makes FastCasual.com Top 100 Movers &amp; Shakers List</title>
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Denver-based Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a new seven-unit restaurant group offering the authentic tastes of the Mediterranean, has been named to FastCasual.com’s “Top 100 2009 Movers &#38; Shakers” list. The restaurant group, which made its debut in this fifth annual issue, ranked No. 26 among other leading national restaurant brands.
 
FastCasual.com acknowledged Garbanzo’s healthy, fresh and authentic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cause Plus: Building Loyalty with Philanthropy</title>
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Chain Leader&#8217;s Driving Traffic research in November showed that 73 percent of restaurant chains support charitable organizations to increase customer counts. Corner Bakery Café is one of those. But it finds that philanthropic efforts also help the 115-unit Dallas-based restaurant chain engage and retain employees.
Take, for example, its participation in Share Our Strength&#8217;s Great American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Marketing Reality</title>
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Last spring, many who ordered pizza online from Papa John&#8217;s could take a 1972 Z28 Camaro for a spin. The classic automobile was not real but part of an augmented-reality campaign used to celebrate the company&#8217;s 25th anniversary.
The national pizza chain was allowing users, through their Web cams, to virtually drive the Camaro, a car [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of the Endangered Restaurant Critic</title>
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When news broke last week that Raymond Sokolov, the longtime restaurant critic of the Wall Street Journal, was out, the average foodie probably didn&#8217;t look up from his plate. Some middle-aged guy isn&#8217;t writing reviews for a newspaper whom few even knew had a restaurant critic. So what?
Real foodies should be concerned that critics like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Long Last, Customized Frappuccino</title>
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Hoping to boost summer sales, Starbucks Corp. will begin allowing customers to design their own frappuccinos, the blended ice drink whose U.S. sales make up about 10% of the coffee giant&#8217;s revenue.
Calling it the &#8220;however-you-want-it frappuccino,&#8221; Starbucks will allow customers to order the drink with soy milk instead of dairy, decaffeinated instead of caffeinated coffee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Restaurant Association Praises Senate Jobs Bill Passage</title>
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The National Restaurant Association today praised the Senate passage of legislation that will help many small business owners in the restaurant industry create jobs. The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (H.R. 2847) extends the temporary increase in expensing for small businesses and includes a payroll tax holiday and tax credit for employers who hire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And One Table for All: Communal Tables Fill D.C. Restaurants</title>
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Long, leggy and both loved and feared, the communal table has probably already landed in a neighborhood near you. This oversized piece of furniture has been steadily gaining territory in area restaurants for the past decade, popping up at uptown neighborhood haunts, downtown hot spots and suburban bakeries alike. If you haven&#8217;t yet experienced one, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McDonald&#8217;s Bets Pricing Drinks At $1 Will Heat Up Summer Sales</title>
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McDonald&#8217;s Corp.&#8217;s summer sales may get extra juice with a push to sell all soft drinks, no matter the size, for $1.
McDonald&#8217;s executives have been trying to sell franchisees on the offer in recent weeks at regional meetings, where Coca-Cola Co. representatives have also pressed the case for $1 drinks, according to two franchisees.
McDonald&#8217;s, aiming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zankou Chicken&#8217;s tragic family rift impedes chain&#8217;s growth</title>
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Everyone loves Zankou Chicken.
Families line up at the little restaurant chain&#8217;s counters for moderately priced rotisserie entrees. Critics as far away as New York have swooned over its secret garlic sauce, and the Zagat Guide has called its chicken dinner &#8220;the single best takeout dish in town.&#8221;
Zankou was even mentioned in a Beck song, &#8220;Debra.&#8221;
So [...]]]></description>
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