The other threat: The big restaurant chains are growing, too, and fast.
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More recently, in the gustatory realm, the big news has been the Danish restaurant Noma and the foraging philosophy that underpins it.
Las Vegas restaurateur and Top Chef Masters contestant Alex Stratta rolled the dice on his first Big Apple restaurant, the recently opened Bigoli .
"It's affected the restaurant big time because we had to cancel 800 people because of the closure but in terms of the business and people wanting to come in then no, " he said.
The bothers hope to save their business by gambling everything on one big event at the restaurant.
Dairy Queen isn't the only big-name restaurant shrinking menu items.
After all, those loyal customers may reason that the Groupon is rewarding people who try the restaurant once at a big discount while punishing the loyal customers by charging them full price.
Pure Food and Wine 's menu of raw vegetable concoctions may make this the Big Apple's most unusual restaurant--as well as one of its best.
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Guests were forced to check out of the Volcano House Hotel and Restaurant at the Volcanoes National Park on the Hawaii's Big Island.
McDonald's, who have a highly successful French operation, says that the market is big enough for both kinds of restaurant.
Those benefits are not just the direct impact of jobs at the companies doing the spending, but, for instance, jobs in construction to build a new factory, or in the retail and restaurant businesses that can flourish when a big company opens a new office or factory.
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They're like the guy who shows up at a restaurant, orders a big steak, has a big drink, orders a big piece of pie, then leaves before paying the tab.
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Martin Sayers, who runs Mimosa restaurant and bar in the centre, said it was a big issue at night.
The restaurant closes each year in November and, in preparation of the big day, reopens annually on Feb. 13.
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Restaurant-grade appliances and plenty of counter space will make prepping the big meal a breeze.
At an Italian restaurant in Big Bear, staff and diners were relieved to hear the manhunt was finally over.
It is a big, long established seafood restaurant that looks like a tourist trap amidst the T-shirt and souvenir shops of the Seattle waterfront.
They got a big dose of health reform when what they really wanted was to ask him about the National Restaurant Association sexual-harassment controversy.
If they had a good day selling papers -- they had enough to give to their mammas, and then some -- Frank would stop with the other guys at the U.S. Restaurant, on Columbus: fried ham on French bread, a big sandwich for a dime.
He duped a bunch of people to invest in scam energy companies with promises of big riches, then pocketed the money to later spend buying property and a stake in a Beverly Hills restaurant.
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For big-ticket dinners, Tetsuya Wakuda's Zen-like restaurant Tetsuya's in the central business district lives up to the hype and his world-class reputation: The nightly tasting menu features exhilarating combinations of flavors and the superlative ingredients for which Australia, and specifically Tasmania, are known, such as confit of Tasmanian ocean trout with konbu, daikon and fennel, and Spring Bay (Tasmanian) scallop with wakame and lemon.
Chief among these is the big improvement in drinks options, particularly for those who order the updated spin on bottle service available in the restaurant's burnished Library bar.
So ladies, the guy you've recently started seeing is set to take you on that first big dinner date to a nice restaurant.
The chain, which had scotched its signature blue A-frame design in favor of big boxes that can seat more customers, is testing a new prototype that uses the A-frame as a restaurant's entranceway.
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