SF is crazy about our restaurants, catapulting chefs into near celebrity status. But there's always going to be a few restaurants, that well, don't quite make the mark. Whether its a gourmet bistro with cardboard pizza crusts, or an pan-Asian cafe heavy handed with the salt-there is now hope for failing restaurant enterprises.
Here's the latest casting call to floundering owners from the producers of Chef Gordon Ramsay's one time BBC, now FOX show, Kitchen Nightmares. "Are you trying to make some green, but still running in the red? Is your food not the best it should be? Or maybe you have a great location, but it doesn't seem to bring in many customers?" They ask restaurateurs who might need a makeover from Ramsay and company.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Restaurants Uncork More Wines by the Glass
Ordering wine by the glass used to mean scant choices and bland options. And only your tastebuds would tell you how long the wine had languished in an open bottle.
That's changed, with restaurants amping up the volume on what's available by the glass and making sure that the wines poured are at optimal freshness.
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That's changed, with restaurants amping up the volume on what's available by the glass and making sure that the wines poured are at optimal freshness.
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Starwood Adding Seven Hotels in NYC
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Unveiling an aggressive expansion plan for this year, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Inc. plans to double its New York City portfolio, adding seven hotels in a strategy that raises its flags on one out of every four new rooms slated to debut in 2010.
Starwood currently operates 12 hotels in the city, including the Brooklyn Sheraton which opened in May. The 2010 plan, totaling 1,712 rooms, includes the debut of the Aloft and Element brands in NYC. The openings will result in more than 500 jobs for Manhattan, Long Island City and Brooklyn. Worldwide, the White Plains, N.Y.-based Starwood will open more than 80 hotels in key markets this year.
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Starwood currently operates 12 hotels in the city, including the Brooklyn Sheraton which opened in May. The 2010 plan, totaling 1,712 rooms, includes the debut of the Aloft and Element brands in NYC. The openings will result in more than 500 jobs for Manhattan, Long Island City and Brooklyn. Worldwide, the White Plains, N.Y.-based Starwood will open more than 80 hotels in key markets this year.
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Revenue agents raid 5 hotels for back taxes
ATLANTA -- Georgia Department of Revenue agents seized five Augusta hotels at 8 a.m. today, citing a failure to pay sales taxes and withholding taxes for their employees’ income taxes.
Two of the five have repaid the more than $400,000 owed, according to Revenue Department spokesman Reg Lansberry. The remaining three haven’t as of 11:30 a.m.
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Two of the five have repaid the more than $400,000 owed, according to Revenue Department spokesman Reg Lansberry. The remaining three haven’t as of 11:30 a.m.
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Business Travel Picks Up, Lifting the Hotel Industry
So far the biggest beneficiary is New York, though other cities on the East Coast are starting to report gains as well. And the upscale, full-service hotels that have long been favored by business travelers have benefited more from the upturn in demand than the midlevel brands, industry analysts say.
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