QSRs aren’t the only restaurants that can use movie tie-ins to attract customers. Full-service chains T.G.I. Friday’s and Kona Grill are ready to cash in this Thursday when Sex and the City 2 opens nationwide. Presuming your bartender makes a decent cosmo, it’s not too late for your place to get in on this act.

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Can’t pay the $12,180-per-semester tuition at the CIA? No problem. Now you can get an entire year’s worth of culinary education for $199.95 from TCU—that’s Top Chef University, the latest spin-off venture from Bravo’s Top Chef cable TV franchise. No room and board charges, either.

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Watch out. Now that San Francisco’s Michelin-starred Restaurant Gary Danko has become the first restaurant to remove frog legs from its menu for environmental reasons, the Save The Frogs people want other restaurants to follow suit. It’s not so much that this group wants to reduce the amount of frog legs served in these restaurants. It’s more that it wants to piggyback on the sustainability clout of high-profile restaurants to aid worldwide amphibian conservation. Sure, it’s a good cause…but is this something with which restaurants should get involved?

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