FohBoh's Blog – November 2007 Archive (4)

Eating Thanksgiving Dinner In Restaurants

Most people still prefer to experience Thanksgiving dinner at

home with friends and family. Thanksgiving still remains the single largest holiday of the year

for grocery stores...and the travel industry. Nonetheless, each year, more and more people are choosing to dine out on

Thanksgiving Day, and even more are enjoying the convenience of having

one or more dishes prepared outside the home.

According to the…

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Added by FohBoh on November 21, 2007 at 11:35am — No Comments

Restaurants Need To Blog

An interesting article showed up today, courtesy of one of our members, from an old Restaurants and Institutions (R&I) article published in 2005.

Michael Allenson, principal with Chicago-based research firm Technomic Inc. said “There are few, if any operations

that have truly harnessed the Internet to the point that they

can today. There’s always going to be further innovation

to allow operators to do more with it." So, here we are, over two years later, enabling… Continue

Added by FohBoh on November 10, 2007 at 10:57am — 3 Comments

Making Social Networks Work for You

I have always looked to combine technology with the restaurant business. Growing up in Silicon Valley and attending high school with Steve Jobs, I can't help it. The reality is that technology will greatly help make managing restaurants and hotels more efficient and social networking is an incredible tool that can also be leveraged for the restaurant industry, nationwide and worldwide.

I remember in 1977 using a POS terminal at Victoria Station.… Continue

Added by FohBoh on November 9, 2007 at 9:22pm — No Comments

Does a Hot Concept Award Lead to Long-Term Success?

Since 1995, Nations Restaurant News has been running a popularity contest to award talented entrepreneurs with The Hot Concept of the year award. With 95 past winners, how many are still operating? How many have achieved their goals? How many have been sold and how

many are still hot?