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Perhaps out of necessity, details about the actual content
of this fall’s 21-cities-in-30-days Guy Fieri Roadshow are a little
sketchy. His PR handout describes it as a “two-hour food-a-palooza
modeled after a high-energy rock concert, including Guy’s traveling
from city to city on two tour buses with his culinary krew.” But give
the man some credit. While other chefs are happy to leverage their
restaurant success into TV shows, Fieri’s among the first to take his
TV fame to the next level: personal appearances in concert halls. It’s
the ultimate gig for a chef: he’s cooking for thousands of people,
they’re paying a bundle to watch him do it, and he’s not responsible
for feeding any of them once the show is over.
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Get used to it if your restaurant has begun to rely on
buy-one-get-one offers or other discount deals. You might have to live
with them for the next couple of years. The eerily accurate industry
seers at Technomic are predicting that restaurant sales will continue to
decline for the rest of 2009 and all of 2010. But maybe it’s not too
late to follow the lead of fast casual kingpin Panera Bread, which has
skipped discounting altogether to instead focus on customers who still
have jobs and money to spend. It’s working for them; maybe it would
work for you.
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Domenica, a casual Italian spot in New Orleans’
Roosevelt Hotel, is John Besh’s newest creation. The name means
“Sunday” in Italian, and the concept is designed to evoke the warmth
and charm of a traditional Sunday supper in a rural Italian village.
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