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		<title>Restaurant Survival – Mom &amp; Pop Restaurants, Heart of America – One Year Later!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author’s Note – One of the most difficult things to do is to find fresh content for a blog. Many current topics are hashed over on every restaurant blog and become boring. The article below was written one year ago during the first week of October. As I re-read the words, the relevancy and impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Time to Open a Restaurant? Maybe, but the Basics Haven’t Changed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of friends and acquaintances aren&#8217;t going to be happy about this post. After a few cocktails, they explained their new concept they planned to open. The location is on a popular beach in south Florida. They are taking over a closed waterfront seafood restaurant that has a large footprint with about 250 seats. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Perception of Value Is a Moving Target in a Recession – Restaurants Learn Lesson (Part Two)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Restaurant Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Part One of this post we discussed the consumer and how they have changed during this recession. We also looked at the foreseeable future and concluded there is nothing on the immediate horizon that would indicate any changes in your restaurant guests&#8217; spending habits. &#8220;Value&#8221; is what your customer is looking for in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Perception of Value Is a Moving Target in a Recession – Restaurants Learn Lesson (Part One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:27:50 +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[Over the years the term &#8220;value&#8221; has been bantered about as part of our common restaurant marketing vocabulary. The definition has loosely been thought to be providing a combination of food and service at a reasonable price. The conclusion was that if the consumer&#8217;s perception of value was met, then our restaurant marketing efforts could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality is Catching Up to Gordon Ramsay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restaurant News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago we posted an article about the so-called business magician and chef extraordinaire called Gordon Ramsay who was showing others around the world how to run a restaurant. As predicted in the post titled Secrets to Running a Successful Restaurant – The Ramsay Revelation, celebrity chef&#8217;s who create &#8220;reality&#8221; TV shows do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surveys and Reports Just Verify What We Know on the Streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Restaurant News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Restaurant Association released it&#8217;s latest report on the Restaurant Productivity Index for the month of June. For the 22nd consecutive month the report concludes business climate is down. No surprise there.  According to the NPD Group, a Chicago business research company, there are a net of 4000 fewer restaurants now than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cut Restaurant Costs – Trash Cans Tell the Story</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/cut-restaurant-costs-%e2%80%93-trash-cans-tell-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controlling Costs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t worry, you won&#8217;t set a new fashion trend, but don a pair of rubber gloves, dishwasher&#8217;s apron, the oldest clothes you have and those old tennis shoes you were going to throw out. Now start digging in every trash can, bag, garbage can and any other waste container inside or outside your building. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Veto Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both houses of congress can spend months deliberating a bill on the most important issues our country faces. It takes tons of research, thousands of man hours and many committee meetings to get a bill through both the Senate and House. However, one of the smallest words in the English language takes about one second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Buy a Dream if You Can’t Afford a Nightmare</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/don%e2%80%99t-buy-a-dream-if-you-can%e2%80%99t-afford-a-nightmare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.onawait.com/don%e2%80%99t-buy-a-dream-if-you-can%e2%80%99t-afford-a-nightmare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controlling Costs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Restaurant Owner Almost Gives Up
A guest at a table wanted to say hello. I visited the customer just before the lunch hour at one of our restaurants. My instincts immediately told me he wanted more than a casual greeting. He wanted to talk. The customer was no stranger. He visits regularly and owns a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Lessons from a Recession (Part Two) – Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.onawait.com/restaurant-lessons-from-a-recession-part-two-%e2%80%93-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.onawait.com/restaurant-lessons-from-a-recession-part-two-%e2%80%93-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<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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