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		<title>Subway eyes matching McDonald&#8217;s in China in 10 years</title>
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U.S. sandwich chain Subway hopes to match McDonald&#8217;s (MCD.N) in China by store count in 10 years, its President Fred DeLuca said on Monday.
DeLuca, who founded Subway when he 17 in 1965, said China had great growth opportunity and targeted 500 stores in the next 5 years, with 35 to 50 set to open in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurants eye sales growth in dining drought</title>
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Amid signs of thawing consumer spending, U.S. restaurants are starting to walk a fine line between turning diners on with new lower-calorie dishes and tapas-style small plates and turning them off with creeping price increases.
The course change comes as cost-cutting opportunities dwindle and restaurants try to wean still-skittish diners off discounts and special offers.
&#8220;2009 was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tacos in the Morning? That’s the Routine in Austin</title>
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Austin can’t claim taco primacy. That category is too broad, encompassing too many variations in style.
When it comes to breakfast tacos, however, Austin trumps all other American cities.
Roberto Espinosa, proprietor of Tacodeli and the breakfast taco interpreter of the moment, espouses a slacker consumer theory of why Austin — a city thick with creative folk, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow, steady growth paying off for Darden</title>
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Like the tortoise in Aesop&#8217;s fable, Orlando-based Darden Restaurants for several years has taken a slow, steady approach to opening new Olive Gardens and Red Lobsters as its competitors built at the frenzied pace of the hare.
But as the recession slowed growth at other chains, Darden began overtaking its competitors. And as the company moves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Central Florida Chef&#8217;s Association Gives $5000.000 To The John Andrew Voight Scholarship Foundation and $2,000 to The American Red Cross For Haiti Relief</title>
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The Central Florida Chef&#8217;s Association has presented the John Andrew Voight Scholarship Foundation with $5,000. The funds will be used to assist aspiring Culinarians overcome the financial issues of attending culinary school.
John Andrew Voight loved the culinary arts more than anything. He followed his dream by attending Le Cordon Bleu School of Culinary Arts, Orlando. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firehouse Subs Donates Food To Haiti</title>
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In an effort to provide much-needed support to ongoing disaster relief efforts in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Firehouse Subs donated 87,000 pounds of rice and beans, as well as 500 of its empty, five-gallon pickle buckets for usage during the clean-up efforts. The food donation provided nearly 500,000 meals last month, and was made in conjunction with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollo Tropical serves over 11,000 meals at the 2010 Food Network South Beach Wine &amp; Food Festival</title>
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While thousands of people flocked to South Beach to enjoy the 2010 Food Network South Beach Wine &#38; Food Festival presented by Food &#38; Wine, Pollo Tropical® was behind the scenes fueling the over 2,000 volunteers and staff who helped run the four-day star studded event. Held on February 25-28, 2010, the nationally recognized wine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Eatery Goes High-Tech To Compete With Larger Chains</title>
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Mark Basile, director of operations at Mamma Mia’s Italian Restaurant, had a crazy idea once.
For several years, he wanted to implement an advance ordering service that would allow busy, on-the-go customers who wanted to have a sit-down meal at the restaurant to place their orders in advance so meals could be ready when they arrived.
After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Ramsay restaurant opens at Pearl-Qatar</title>
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World-renowned and Michelin three-starred chef Gordon Ramsay has launched his newest restaurant at the Pearl-Qatar where the doors to maze were officially opened last night.
Ramsay has signed a partnership with Alfardan Group which has brought him to Qatar to open maze – the first maze to be opened outside a hotel in the world.
And Ramsay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rematch is in the works on the Food Network</title>
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There&#8217;s a new king of the chicken wing!
This is important stuff here in the land of chicken wings. Finally, after years and years of debate, we now know who makes the best chicken wings in town &#8211; at least for the moment.
People in WNY are loyal, especially when it comes to wings at two local [...]]]></description>
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