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Restaurants try out new menu items all of the time, but for diners who want to try the latest hamburger, latte or whatever new concoction that is being sold at their favorite place, finding a restaurant test location can be like going on a treasure hunt. Many fast-food restaurants often change the...

Chalk up another casualty to the recession: Mom-and-pop restaurants, where you're more likely to know your server, and possibly the owner, by name. The recession appears to be pushing more people into their own kitchens to cook instead of dining out, according to The NPD Group . But the perception...

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Editor's Note: This is a new column on the restaurant industry by David Bakke, who is a columnist with MoneyCrashers.com. So, will cooks really spit in your food if you send it back to the kitchen? Have servers ever dropped a little liquid ex-lax in the drink of a not-so-friendly customer? Are...

It's the middle of the night, and you're sitting in your dorm room, stomach growling louder than your iPod. But who will deliver at this hour? That's exactly the situation that CampusFood.com was created for. Thirteen years ago, company president Michael Saunders was a college junior at Penn,...

The Japanese-style steakhouse chain is famous for its whirring cutlery, flying meat and flaming piles of onion slices, but recently the excitement has spread from the dining room to the boardroom as a struggle for power threatens the ownership structure of the company.

U.S. restaurants' breakfast sales have been rising, while lunch and dinner counts have fallen, according to a recent report. So eateries are battling it out in the morning, especially over the item Americans are increasingly fond of -- the breakfast sandwich.

Trains, airlines and theaters do it, why not restaurants? Off-peak pricing is coming to Next Restaurant in Chicago, which is scheduled to open in the fall. The price of a meal -- which will be five to six courses and include food, beverage pairings and service -- will depend on what type of seating...

The way Jay Reed figures it, the $120 he spent on getting a tattoo of a grilled cheese sandwich on his arm has more than paid for itself with the lifetime 25% discount he gets at a Cleveland-area sandwich shop. Reed was first person to get the restaurant's tattoo when the deal was announced in...

For a company that just a couple of months ago humbly admitted that its product was "lacking" and its pizza crust tasted like "cardboard," Domino's Pizza certainly seems to be feeling confident these days. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company is now boasting a whole new taste -- and some pretty impressive profit growth, as well.