Pictures of Food Are Not Helping Your Restaurant
Some takeout restaurants choose to decorate their menus with large, unappetizing photographs of their food. Not a good idea.
“Visits to fast-casual restaurants, long the bright spot of the industry, declined last month for the first time since 2004.” Fuck. The Applebee’s indicator is flashing WARNING. Dark days are coming.
The End of Automatic Tipping Has Devastated Restaurant Paychecks
Unless you work in a restaurant, you may not have noticed that many restaurants no longer include “automatic gratuities” on the checks of large groups. But if you do work in a restaurant, this little change may have left you financially destroyed.
Diners Are Too Expensive
Diners: not a fast food restaurant, but also not a “real” restaurant. Something in between. Seems like it should be in between the price of fast food and a real restaurant. But is it?
Study: Minimum Wage Increases Don't Hurt the Restaurant Industry
Discussions of raising our nation’s poverty-level federal minimum wage are often met with the objection that paying workers more would kill the profitability of businesses like restaurants. Not so, says a new study.
Rats In Restaurants Are Not a Big Deal
So there were rats in the restaurant. Okay. You’ll be fine!!!
NY's Most Expensive Restaurant Settles for $500,000 Over Unpaid Tips
Manhattan eatery Per Se—named the best restaurant in the city by The New York Times and the third most expensive restaurant in the world by The Daily Meal—has agreed to pay waitstaff $500,000 for allegedly withholding money from workers that a “reasonable patron” would consider to be tips, Reuters reports.…
Fancy NYC Eatery Traumatizes Woman With Fresh Fish Served Hook Still In
Fancy food: it is a funny thing. One person might not understand why another might enjoy eating tortured goose liver or snails, and the other might say, "Mmm, I love these snails and tortured goose liver. More, please!" Aliona Russo, a non-fancy woman, recently sat down for dinner at Manhattan's fancy Villagio on the…
The Best Restaurant in New York Is: The Tenement Museum
Caity: Someone at a New Year's Eve party told me they felt we had hit a melancholy streak in our Best Restaurants lately.
Restaurant Apologizes to Homophobes Who Wrote "Faggot" on Receipt
A Houston restaurant manager issued an apology after two customers complained about a gay server by writing "Don't want to listen to a faggot through my whole meal," on their receipt. She said "I'm sorry" to the asshole customers.
$1,320 Meal Wasted on Ungrateful Babies
It's fun to waste money, but literally burning it loses its thrill after a while. So, the New York Times is innovating: take second graders to one of the most expensive restaurants in Manhattan for a lavish, exorbitant meal they'll hate.
Pizza Places Should Not Do Brunch
"Pizza" is a popular type of restaurant. "Brunch" is a popular type of meal. For this reason, some pizza restaurants believe that they can serve brunch. Not true.
From California to Arizona to Texas to New York, the restaurant industry is booming, and restaurants are desperately seeking to hire new employees. At an average annual wage of $16,446.
Is the Cupcake Boom Over? (Yes)
There was a time—after Sex and the City glorified Magnolia Bakery, and before carbs were universally considered poison—when cupcakes were gold. Today, as a cupcake chain closes its doors, we must ask: Is the golden age of cupcakes over?
Take Me to Sanborns: Swiss Enchiladas and Race in Mexico City
In the first chapter of D.H. Lawrence's late novel, The Plumed Serpent, an Irishwoman named Kate has a terrible experience at a Mexico City bullfight. The book is set during the Mexican revolution. Kate is overwhelmed by the sights and sounds in the arena and by the murderous event itself. Afterward, she tells a…
Fishlike casual dining chain Red Lobster is being sold to a private equity firm for $2.1 billion. Ehh... what joke would you make about Red Lobster right now? Leave it in the comments, or whatever. It's too early.
The Best Restaurant in New York Is The United Nations Dining Room
Rich: I realized I had a knife in my bag on the way to the United Nations. It's a pocket knife—a nice one—and while I've never used it (I've never had to), I did not want to give it up. But I knew we'd be searched. I also worried about leaving it in the cab and having someone pick it up and kill someone with it. That…
Everywhere to Be a Sonic
Sonic, a fast food chain that differentiates itself by delivering garbage directly to your parked car, plans to expand into every last empty lot in the United States of America.
This Valentine's Day, Show Your Love By Ignoring Valentine's Day
With dull eyes and open mouths, they crowd the streets and fill the restaurants. Some are teenagers, some are straight, some are gay, and far too many are married adults who would usually be found at home watching the television at night. They are the zombies of St. Valentine's Day, and they're just as miserable as…
NYC Waiters Can Now Legally Give You Water Without Asking
Whether still or sparkling, if a waiter at a restaurant in New York City has ever presented you a glass of water without asking if you wanted it first, they were breaking the law—until now.
