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		<title>Restaurant Lessons from a Recession (Part Two) – Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps marketing is the most challenging task a restaurateur faces with or without the impact of a recession. Recognizing that there is a recession is always in hindsight and pinpointing the day it started is impossible. You don&#8217;t wake up one morning and the newspaper headlines tell you your business is down, people are losing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Breakeven for a New Restaurant May Be Elusive for Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controlling Costs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding the current economic conditions, which complicate projections, a breakeven revenue number may be difficult to determine for new restaurant startups. Most restaurant operators look at fixed costs, employee costs, the average cost of goods(a percentage), administrative costs and deduct those numbers from hypothetical monthly sales figure. In theory, the formula should work.
The new restaurant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networking – The Downside for Restaurants Starting to Appear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably don&#8217;t know this but I am a 35 year old, tall, dark and handsome gentleman. I have homes in Florida, France and New York, two airplanes and a 200 foot yacht. Now if you believe that, I will write a review about your restaurant too!
As you can easily determine, you can be whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Resources for Busy Restaurant Owners</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/online-resources-for-busy-restaurant-owners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A question was submitted to one of the websites that I write for, All Experts, asking ways that busy restaurant owners can keep up with trends, information and subjects of interest on a daily basis. On the face of it, that may seem like an easy question to answer. The Internet is an obvious solution, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets to Running a Successful Restaurant – The Ramsay Revelation</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/secrets-to-running-a-successful-restaurant-%e2%80%93-the-ramsay-revelation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.onawait.com/secrets-to-running-a-successful-restaurant-%e2%80%93-the-ramsay-revelation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all these years of running successful restaurants, I have had a true revelation!
With at least eight or ten episodes of Gordon Ramsay&#8217;s Kitchen Nightmares television &#8220;reality&#8221; show under my belt, a miracle occurred. Yes an undeniable mind clearing revelation that could change the restaurant world. All of us that operate restaurants take heed – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Email Marketing Option Comparisons</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/restaurant-email-marketing-option-comparisons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controlling Costs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email marketing is no longer an option for restaurants. It has become a staple for customer communications to the majority of your existing customers. While the email system is far from being perfect, it is extremely efficient for quick communications to a portion of your customers at a very low cost.
In the past year my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare Visit to a Chain Restaurant – Independents Will Survive!</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/rare-visit-to-a-chain-restaurant-%e2%80%93-independents-will-survive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.onawait.com/rare-visit-to-a-chain-restaurant-%e2%80%93-independents-will-survive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a food critic in the formal sense of the word. I don&#8217;t like chain restaurants and have made my biases clear in previous posts. You can take all the Chili&#8217;s, Fridays, Applebee&#8217;s and what is left of Bennigans, strip all the logos and color schemes away, and you have carbon copy eateries. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing the Right Restaurant Marketing Tools</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/choosing-the-right-restaurant-marketing-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restaurants are bombarded today with people selling all kinds of marketing ideas. This year has been difficult for many restaurant segments with lower consumer spending, higher prices and stiff competition. Restaurateurs are inundated with all kinds of buzzwords, gimmicks, advertising proposals, magazine advertizing, website improvements, email marketing ideas, viral marketing schemes, mobile marketing, coupon promotions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant’s Answer to Economic Woe’s Dangerous!</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/restaurant%e2%80%99s-answer-to-economic-woe%e2%80%99s-dangerous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.onawait.com/restaurant%e2%80%99s-answer-to-economic-woe%e2%80%99s-dangerous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controlling Costs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in the Detroit Free Press scares me. The subject was the economy and the struggle we restaurateurs are having with the perfect storm of negative conditions impacting the bottom line. The author states that food costs have gone up 18.4% in the last eighteen months, minimum wages have gone from $5.15 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buzzword Building a Restaurant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I heard the word &#8220;crowdsourcing&#8221; was about a year ago. It was in an article about a subject that I don&#8217;t even remember.  The term wasn&#8217;t really clear to me then and now crowdsourcing is being used to develop a restaurant in the Washington D.C. area.
What does crowdsourcing mean?  Let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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