Wednesday, October 27, 2010

New newsletter for restaurant chain followers

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The latest restaurant chain newsletter.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

News from RestaurantChains.net

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News from RestaurantChains.net for the last week of 09/14/2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Restaurant buying group for multi-unit operators

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Restaurantchains.net and Joe Dunbar & Associates is your exclusive entree into the entegra co-op buying group. We have formed a comp...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Bars & Grills - the winners!

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"Bar & Grill restaurants currently sit atop of the expansion and sales goals of today's existing and growing chains. This is mi...
Monday, April 28, 2008

See you at the NRA! May 17th-20th

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If you would like to meet us and see how are various chain programs can benefit you and your company, please stop by! If you want to meet up...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Foodserviceclub.com

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We started a brand new social networking site for the food service professional. Exchange ideas, expert opinion, operational forms, etc. www...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Restaurant Cooperative

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Restaurantchains.net has begun our first alliance with Dunbar & Associates in launching Dynamic Chains. Dynamic Chains is a restaurant c...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Topic #4 on service. Asking for help

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The true strength of a good service person is when they ask for help and provide direction to get themselves out of the weeds. Contrary to m...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

The January 2008 Top Ten Fastest Growing Concepts list

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The new list is out. See Here.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

FOH Series Continued. Topic #3, The Swarming Method

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There is a method called "The Swarming Method" of customer FOH service. This means that service/wait staff share the responsibilit...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

FOH Series Continued-Topic #2 eye contact, Genuine Concern

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In our continuation on front of the house service our topic is eye contact which is what we call a sub-topic of GENUINE CONCERN (or lack the...
Monday, December 17, 2007

New series on FOH service- You guys ready to order?

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We are beginning a series on waiter service. The reason to write a series about this, is a result of what I see as small but powerful miss...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Curent Restaurant Incubator Index

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This month's current RII displays continued growth in emerging chains with less than 200 stores. Data indicates November was the best m...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

Recent press on small sandwiches, some bets.

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Recently we have seen in various trade magazines of some restaurant groups and chains who are focusing on small sandwiches and hamburger sli...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The NAFEM show in Atlanta, 2007

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I spent two days at the show just walking the floor and networking. Here's what I saw; Restaurant equipments time has truly come! We are...
Monday, October 08, 2007

In the TV show Kitchen Nightmares, how come you don't see any multi-units portrayed?

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How come you don't see any multi-units portrayed in the TV show on FOX called Kitchen Nightmares? Because Multi-units have what's ca...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

October's Top Ten Fastest Growing Concepts List

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See the just released list of October's Top Ten Fastest Growing Concepts with less than 50 stores. Four concepts were on previous lists ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Mistakes in this weeks newsletter

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Garlic Jims actually was #6 on our top ten list in July. We stated they were #10. Also, Flemings increased by 8 units during the period, not...

M&A representation by Restaurantchains.net

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Time to sell? or Time to expand? Take advantage of Restaurantchains.net's close contact with thousands of restaurant chains. Restaurantc...
Sunday, September 09, 2007

State of the Industry. New Alerts feature.

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1)In all this recent hullabaloo about the economy, My opinion is reflected due to my organic involvement with the business is that, the ind...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Natural progression of recent RII and other issues

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If you have seen the RII in recent months you will notice a last quarters rise of burgeoning companies with less than 200 stores. Please fol...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Julys Top Ten Fastest Growing concepts below 50 units

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Top Ten list for July in order of largest percentage growth; 1. Which Wich 2. Tacos Don Chente 3. Homemade Pizza Co. 4. Costa Vida Fresh Mex...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Perfecting the figure 8, another 6th sense story

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As a newbie manager in the 80's, the main issue for my leaders to get into my head was "awareness." It was the ability to see ...
Friday, May 25, 2007

The NRA show in Chicago. Is it worth it to be an exhibitor?

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I have been going to the NRA for 7 of the past 10 years and I have noticed some changes relating to how the show works, the attendees that v...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Management today, NRA show May 19-22, 2007

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From my days in restaurant operations a few things held true. The General Manager was the "key" to the success of any store, and o...
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Fluidity-let's talk Chipotle

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Chipotle, it's restaurant and their stock are on an upswing if you haven't noticed their recent per share price. By the way, I am n...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Industry insights- operations and acquisitions

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We are always tracking chains that are growing, those that are being acquired and those that are closing units. In addition, where I sit at ...

Industry insights- fast service, cheaper eats

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We are reading in the media these days regarding the notion that fast service restaurants are out pacing full service restaurants regarding ...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007

April's top ten

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Aprils Top Ten list of fastest growing concepts is now out. The winner, Nemos Seafood has a quick service seafood concept that more than dou...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

NY Restaurant show

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In this years walk and talk of the NY restaurant show we saw the following compared to previous years (By the way, we walk the entire show a...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

New information for users (and future clients)

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We have just completed a migration to a more robust database. Speed and use issues have been resolved by the move to SQL server . In additio...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Alerts Newsletter Pro

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Today begins the start of a more enhanced newsletter that includes more detailed information than our typical Restaurantchains.net Alerts N...