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How your restaurant sales and profits compare to competitors' and what you can do to improve financial performance

Lending is coming back. What should you do?

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 29, 2011

It’s not like restaurants haven’t wanted to grow over the last year. It’s just nobody wants to lend the money for it.

Draft notice: Tapping the latest libations

By Thomas Henry Strenk on Jan. 01, 2012

More than beer is being drafted these days at restaurants and bars. Sparkling wine, liquor, cocktails, cider and kombucha are all flowing from taps.

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How an Austin restaurant hid an alleged drug ring

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 01, 2012

According to the FBI, Amado “Mayo” Pardo, a restaurant owner in Austin, Texas, ran a heroin ring.

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Buying time

By Amanda Baltazar on Dec. 01, 2013

A sluggish economy and skittish consumer spending means operators will continue to keep tight reins on their own spending in the New Year. What is worthy of investment and what’s on the chopping block?

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10 sales-building strategies from the top independents

By Kelly Killian on Nov. 06, 2014

Here are some of the tactics the country’s leading independents—with revenues of $10 million or more—say have been most successful recently for building sales.

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How the industry is fighting back against a rising minimum wage

By Peter Romeo and Sara Rush Wirth on Oct. 15, 2015

The call to increase minimum wage is ringing louder and louder across the country. Here's how restaurants and industry interest groups are responding.

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25 top limited-service chains

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 09, 2016

Financial and popular success don't always align in the restaurant business, but they do on this one-of-a-kind list from Restaurant Business. The publication worked with its research sister, Technomic, to rank limited-service chains by a combination of sales and customer satisfaction. It's offered here in a partnership with the popular general-business website, BusinessInsider.com.

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