February 2010 Blog Posts (106)

Non-Operator How to Get More Customers To Your Area

On a recent trip to Dallas, TX I learned about Restaurant Row.

Restaraunt Row in Dallas is the two mile area along I-35E around Walnut Hill, so named for the number of restaurants and entertainment venues attracting locals and tourists to an otherwise unremarkable area. (There are supposed to be over 150 within a two mile radius)

Many guide books, hotels and tourism agencies recommend people visit this area bringing much additional revenue to the area. Could you replicate this in your… Continue

Added by Barry Chandler on February 2, 2010 at 9:20pm — No Comments

Food Network's Chef vs City casting call Baltimore, DC & Philadelphia

The Food Network’s Chef Vs City is casting is in Baltimore today, tomorrow (February 3rd) and Thursday (February 4th) , they are moving on to Washington DC this weekend and then on to Philadephia the beginning of next week. If you haven’t watched the show it is Amazing Race meets Iron Chef. As a team of two chefs representing your city, i.e. Baltimore, Washington DC and Philadelphia, you are put through challenges which could be eating unusaly food items to a related challenge that represents… Continue

Added by Dara Bunjon on February 2, 2010 at 11:27am — No Comments

Do customers say to you: "I couldn't find you on my GPS"?

Do customers say to you: "I couldn't find you on my GPS"?

How is your business mapped in a potential customer's search on Google or Bing? How about when that customer searches on an iPhone or GPS device?

The answer is becoming more critical every day to the success of restaurants, retail outlets and any other business that serves customers at a physical location. Business owners need to review the way their businesses are listed online, correct any omissions or… Continue

Added by BizMappers on February 2, 2010 at 8:48am — No Comments

"I" before "You"

Most of us own, operate, or assist other businesses in being successful and evaluation of the effectiveness of the business is the culminating point to our individual success. When evaluating my own operating situations some of the things I hear from my team are:

“I have some folks on my team I am going to replace with an upgrade”

“My manager or employee just doesn’t get it.”

“Right bus wrong seat.”

“The work ethic of today’s generation…so much… Continue

Added by Andy Swingley on February 1, 2010 at 3:54pm — 1 Comment

Non-Operator We Just Bought A Horse (an amazing wild mustang}

Greetings all,

We have been on a journey for soooo long to find different ways to give back. First step was to feed the hungry every day for almost 2 years, we only stopped because the local goverment said we could not do it unless we were a part of a church group already feeding the hungry. Second step was to aquire land to set up an urban youth sancuary and rescue animals and grow n organic farm, well we now have the land and we now have our first horse.

We want the youth to know… Continue

Added by Miftah on February 1, 2010 at 3:04pm — No Comments

Restaurant Leadership

You may have noticed that FohBoh is promoting and advertising the upcoming Restaurant Leadership Conference April 19-21. You may also have heard that FohBoh was selected by CSP (owners of the Restaurant Leadership Conference) as its exclusive partner for social media; basically powering the event and providing pre-conference promotion, at-conference thought leadership and post-conference, continuing education and community management for the new… Continue

Added by Michael L. Atkinson on February 1, 2010 at 10:57am — 2 Comments