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June 2011

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Grow smaller
By Joan M. Lang June 1, 2011 There are lots of reasons to make restaurant footprints smaller these days: reducing building or operating costs; taking advantage of in-line locations or smaller markets; entering nontraditional venues—airports or universities, that kind of thing—or providing alternatives for operators who want to open multiple units in a single trade area. ...
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Features

Food follies
Food trucks have gone from grease wagon status to uber-cool, next-gen frontier almost overnight. Sure, they've been around a long time and in markets like Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Austin, Texas, they're a well-entrenched part of the local food scene. But over the past two years—in sync with both the recession and the rise of social media—food trucks have caught the fancy of a whole new group of operators and customers, alike....
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20-Minute University

Sushi: the edible art from Japan
Globalization has had a huge effect on our culinary world. A visible example of this trend is the exploding popularity of sushi. It started out in high-end Japanese restaurants but has since made its way into moderately priced casual eateries as well as take-out establishments and the refrigerated section of supermarkets. Now is a good time to step back and learn more about the sushi phenomenon....
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Food Service Buyer

Wheying the options
Dairy prices seem to be going up faster than cream rises to the top of a vat of milk. While relative bargains were available when cheese prices crashed in January 2009, there's been a surge upward since then, notes Dick Groves, publisher/editor of "The Cheese Reporter" out of Madison, Wisconsin. To ease the pain, some operators can cut down on the number of cheesy appetizers and entrees they serve, but concepts that focus on pizza, cheeseburgers, enchiladas and quesadillas simply can't do without it....
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The leaf branches out
Unlike many beverages, tea has been less affected by the recent recession. Indeed, as the economic picture brightens, sales of tea products are rising. In 2010, tea imports were up 10 percent over the previous year, to a record 274 million pounds, according to estimates by the Tea Association of the U.S.A....
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