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15 Restaurant Metrics to Know and How To Use Them

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Ideal menu price. To put it simply, your cost of goods sold is how much it costs you to produce a menu item. As you add together all of your menu items, you can determine the total cost of everything (to you) that you sell to your guests. For fine dining, around 30 percent. Average customer headcount.

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The Country’s Best Sandwich Makers Are Expanding Into Fine Dining

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Blocks away from the restaurant sits the shipping container that launched the team’s Wax Paper, which since its opening in 2015 has become a favorite takeout spot for inventive, quality sandwiches. Italian hoagie slingers Grazie Grazie in DC begat Grazie Nonna , serving red-sauce classics under chandeliers.

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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His legendary “tabletop dessert,” which is still on the Alinea menu today, involves a slew of elements — sauces and gelees, glitter made from strawberries, and sleek chocolate orbs — artfully swished and swooped all over the table right before diners’ eyes. Crumbled cookies were now “soil,” and orbs of chocolate became “pearls.”

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10 Women Entrepreneurs Who Are Making Their Presence Felt In The Indian F&B Sector

The Restaurant Times

A designer by profession and without having any prior experience in the F&B fraternity, Puja Sahu is a fine example of resourcefulness and grit. She is the brains behind The Potbelly, the first-ever fine-dine Bihari restaurant of India. Puja Sahu, Co-Founder, The Potbelly. Minu & Preeyam Budhia, Founder, ICanFlyy.

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Our Favorite Places to Eat in Atlanta

Restaurant Clicks

Aria is an electric fine-dining restaurant located in Buckhead. Many celebrities passing through Atlanta have found themselves in the discreetly lit dining room at Aria. With Matthew Basford serving as Executive Chef, the dining menu is simply extraordinary. Notably, the service is outstanding.

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An Eater’s Guide to the Most Retro-Chic Ski Towns in the Alps

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Returning from international stints, they’re freshening up their hometown gastronomic scenes, reconceiving carb-heavy ski foods, and serving dishes that balance tradition with modern tastes. The Cōmodo Dining at the Cōmodo. Ingo Pertramer / Rote Wand Gourmet Hotel Communal dining at its best at Rote Wand.

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The Best Salad Chains In America

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Sweetgreen prides itself in serving only the cleanest, natural vegetables with its salads. Chopt was founded in 2001 and has been serving the freshest, and spiciest, salads since its opening. By 2015, the chain had opened 12 additional locations. These salads are seriously loaded and finely chopped.