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Out today! If you dislike samey, chainy food and love small, indy, family-run food places instead, this is the book for you. It's packed with cafes, restaurants, seafood shacks, beach bars, and more to steer you to the best places to eat at the seaside. #uktravelguide #indypublisher #newrelease #ukpublishing

If your restaurant features seafood, then you might consider investing in a fish file. This is essentially a refrigerated filing cabinet, consisting of a number of drawers used to hold crushed ice and seafood.

A cafe committed to community connection… Driftless Cafe in Viroqua takes a non-traditional approach with its ever-changing menu, which relies heavily on the local ingredients available. Click here to read more about Driftless Cafe, as emphasized by restaurant co-owner Luke Zahm. #TheBusinessNews #thebusinessnewswi #westcentralwi #westcentralwinews #westcentralwibusiness #businessnews #wisconsinjournalism #supportlocaljournalism #shareyourstory

#FunFoodFactFriday The first Waffle House opened on September 5, 1955. The restaurant was a collaboration of neighbors in Avondale Estates, Georgia, about 10 miles outside of Atlanta. Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner decided that the area needed a 24-hour, sit-down restaurant for their friends and neighbors that combined the speed of fast food with the round-the-clock concept. They opened the first Waffle House on Labor Day in 1955. The venture was named Waffle House to promote their highest-profit item—the waffle. Because the waffle did not lend itself to takeout, the owners also thought that encouraging waffle ordering might encourage diners to stay and linger. Forker would say, “We are not in the food business. We are in the people business.” The restaurant signs were painted bright yellow to attract drivers' attention, and menu items included waffles and eggs for 40 cents, hash browns for 20 cents, Coca-Cola for 10 cents, and a filet mignon for $1.50. Waffle House continues to be an icon, with more than 2,000 locations across 25 states. Every minute, Waffle Houses serve an average of 341 bacon strips, 238 orders of hash browns, 145 waffles, and 127 cups of coffee. Other Fun Facts: *** Waffle House used to serve Chick-fil-A. The chain was once licensed to sell fellow Atlanta-based CFA sandwiches. However, the sandwiches got so popular that orders were impacting Waffle House’s regular menu, so the partnership was stopped. *** The original Waffle House location still exists, but it has now been turned into a museum containing Waffle House memorabilia. It can be toured only by appointment, and the tours fill up months in advance. *** Waffle House releases its own custom waffle-based songs, starting with “Waffle House Family.” A full selection can be found on jukeboxes in Waffle House locations. *** FEMA uses the “The Waffle House Index” to determine how hard a natural disaster has hit a town: Code Green means Waffle House is open and serving a full menu, Code Yellow means Waffle House is serving a limited menu, supplies may be low, and power may be off, and Code Red means Waffle House, Inc. is closed and the area needs immediate assistance. #cpgindustry #wafflehouse #nowyouknow #forhireresults The Newell Group

Have you ever bristled at the cost of your cappuccino, or glass of Pinot, or a plate at your favourite local eatery? Have you ever taken to a friend, or worse, social media, to complain about how your dining dollars aren’t going as far as they used to? Of course we are all feeling the pinch from rising costs of living and stubborn interest rates, but have you ever wondered why we may be paying more? For food to be cheap, compromises need to be made and somewhere along the line, someone or something - the farmers and growers, the pickers and processors, the drivers, cooks and chefs, baristas, sommeliers, servers, dishwashers and cleaners, and ultimately us as a community, and the planet - is being screwed. “There is no way to balance the books without compromising the quality, vision and values that define a business like ours,” said Heather Sperling, co-founder and co-owner of Botanica, a restaurant in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. A small independent restaurant - the ones not part of your city’s hospitality groups or empires - might make between 3% and 5% in profit. (Want to see how it all adds up? Check out Sperling’s op-ed for the Los Angeles Times - link in comments) I’ve seen others that are break even at best, even loss making, only getting by based on sponsorships, or consumer products, or even media. And behind many of those small and independent restaurants are banks and investors lining up for returns. Like Sperling, most owners and restaurateurs that I know care deeply about their people, their diners, their community, and their impact — even more than they care about their bottom line. If they were motivated only by money there would be far easier industries in which to make (even just not lose) money. So why do they do it? Because they love it. And they love us. “Hospitality is innately altruistic, and the neighborhood restaurant is especially, preciously, precariously so,” says Sperling. Without grand solutions, at least not ones legislated and regulated by governments, it comes down to us. It comes down to understanding all the hands, and the people they represent, that have gone into your next morning coffee, weekday lunch, or night out. It comes down to us supporting the small, the independent, and passionate, hospitality workers that take care of us. And maybe even giving them a smile and thanks for all they do. As Sperling concludes, it means more to them than we will ever know.

When the social media team doesn't need your PR cos the content sells itself 👏👏👏 Our York Christmas Market video is now at over 760,800k across channels, in less that 5 days, and it is still growing. We love it when an SEO, content and social plan comes together. ❤️ And there's been plenty more viral content since... 📈 Can't wait to see the fallout of those waves, Grace Binns Jonathan Harris Tara Harris Nina Pemberton 🌊 #yorkshirefoodguide #digitalmarketing #socialmediamarketing #yorkchristmasmarket

#FunFoodFactFriday On December 13, 1982, the first Olive Garden restaurant was opened on December 13, 1982, in Orlando, Florida. It would grow to be the largest chain of Italian-themed restaurants in the US. The Olive Garden concept was developed by General Mills, a cereal conglomerate, after acquiring the Red Lobster franchise from its founder, Bill Darden, in 1970. Inspired by Red Lobster's success, General Mills decided to expand into the restaurant industry with their own chain, The Olive Garden. The restaurants were designed to resemble a Tuscan farmhouse. The food was an Americanized version of Italian foods – like spaghetti and meatballs, chicken parmesan, and chicken fettuccine alfredo. Prices were kept relatively low (around $15-20 per entrée), which enabled the chain to grow quickly in the '80s and '90s. Another concept introduced by Olive Garden was the “unlimited” menu item, such as the unlimited salad and breadsticks. General Mills left the restaurant business in 1995, placing several of its popular restaurant chains (including Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Longhorn Steakhouse, and Yard House) into a stockholder-owned company named Darden. Initially titled “The Olive Garden,” the restaurant became just “Olive Garden” in 1998. Other Fun Facts: ***Olive Garden serves over 600 million breadsticks a year. The number of breadsticks initially served per basket is always the same as the number of guests per table, plus one. *** Olive Garden chefs don’t add salt to their pasta water, as is commonly done when cooking pasta. The reason for this is to extend the life of their cooking pots. *** Andes Mints specifically designs the after-dinner mints for Olive Garden, with a particular candy design and a specialized wrapper. #cpgindustry #restaurantindustry #forhireresults #nowyouknow

Why do so many restaurants fail? Restaurants have one of the highest failure rates of any industry. Cory Saffran, the Managing Partner of Fortu explains why so many get the business side of food wrong. Check out the full episode by clicking the link in the comments! #restaurantinvestors #restaurant #fortu #tampabay #stpetersburg #foodie #foodstagram #linkedin

Rumor has it that Miss Mary's is one of the best New American restaurants in town. Do you agree? #realestatetips #realestateadvice #exprealty #nwarealtor #listingagent #nwarealestate #bentonville #fayettevillear #sellinghomes #nwahomes #realestateexpert #realestategoals #sellingnwahomes #hireme