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	<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Restaurant Marketing – Have You Formed Your Community Yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Part One of Two
According to Wikipedia the definition of the term community is still being debated by sociologists. For our purposes, a community is a group of people that are related by a common bond and usually in the same area. From a restaurant marketing perspective the common bond is your restaurant and its proximity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting a Restaurant? Now May Be the Time</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/starting-a-restaurant-now-may-be-the-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Controlling Costs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before you label me insane, let&#8217;s do a little thinking. Yes, the economy may be the worst in at least 25 years, food costs are sky high and consumers have reduced their restaurant visits. However, look at the positive aspects of starting or buying a restaurant:

The economic conditions show signs of bottoming out. That means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare Visit to a Chain Restaurant – Independents Will Survive!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[chains]]></category>

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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>Small Silver Lining in Clouds for Restaurants?</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/small-silver-lining-in-clouds-for-restaurants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Controlling Costs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While all of the economic turmoil is whirling around the media, Wall Street and political forums, there is something happening in the background that may be a silver lining for the restaurant industry. If you look closely in the crevices of the commodities there are some interesting price fluctuations going on with food and wholesale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Survival – Mom &#038; Pop Restaurants, Heart of America</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/restaurant-survival-%e2%80%93-mom-pop-restaurants-heart-of-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no question this year will end with a record number of closed restaurants. Chains and independents alike are feeling the three pronged attack of escalating food costs, less consumer spending and predatory fuel costs. While it saddens me to see any business shut down, the mom and pop restaurants struggling to compete with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Marketing – Don’t Do List</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Restaurant Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[consultant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems there are plenty of people offering advice about what to do in this unfriendly marketing environment. Much of this advice is a sales pitch to get the restaurant owner to buy something, hire a consultant or advertise in some amazing new way to get customers. Few of these schemes will have any short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunker Down or Market Your Restaurant – Surviving a Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/hunker-down-or-market-your-restaurant-%e2%80%93-surviving-a-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1981 the interest rates on home loans ballooned to 15 to 18%. Savings and loans were going under and it was common for an apparent healthy financial stalwart of the community to suddenly announce they had been acquired or in some cases, were closing their doors. Virtually every home sold, if any, was financed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Menu Theory Tested in Key West</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Immediately after posting the article preceding this one about menus needing chicken noodle soup, I left for a business function in Key West, Florida. Arguably, there is no one mile stretch of pavement in the country that has more restaurants than Duval Street. You also won&#8217;t find any more basic marketing than all of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Menu Marketing Needs Chicken Noodle Soup</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/restaurant-menu-marketing-needs-chicken-noodle-soup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.onawait.com/restaurant-menu-marketing-needs-chicken-noodle-soup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were children and you lost your first ballgame, your old dog died or your first girl friend at the ripe old age of 12 started to hang around your best friend, the person who always comforted you was your mother. She would fix your favorite macaroni and cheese, Mickey Mouse pancakes or good [...]]]></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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