Whilst a busy restaurant may serve the same number of tables today, the size of the lunchtime booking has been reduced from four or three to two to cut costs.

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Take a busy restaurant, for example.

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Something about the familiar sounds of a busy Manhattan restaurant, of commerce, was comforting.

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Some restaurant owners have been busy during the downturn.

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Unlike with Foursquare or typical consumer location-broadcasting software, which either shows your location only to friends or announces publicly that users are checked in at a busy bar, museum, or restaurant, the tracking of Gibbons was extremely granular and showed her on a boat, by herself, in a wooded area devoid of crowds.

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She canvassed local bars near her restaurant and discovered they often stayed busy until closing.

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Not far from Africa Kine, at the Red Rooster restaurant, chef Marcus Samuelson is busy checking orders.

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Stephen Hanson, owner of New York's Blue Fin and Ruby Foo's, says that the monthly rent bill for a healthy restaurant is ideally no more than its sales on one busy day.

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If your significant other or Valentine's date has food allergies, you can't just show up at a restaurant and expect special dietary needs to be accommodated, especially on a busy day.

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Nchege even took the step of accompanying one of the field sales rep managers to a visit with a restaurant owner to better understand their challenges simply trying to get the attention of a busy potential customer.

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