Makeovers: Not just for restaurants!

Contest deadline = tomorrow!
If you’re a fan of food, you’ve probably seen at least one episode of Restaurant Makeover, where a top chef and interior designer team up to help renovate and relaunch existing establishments. Part of the show involves a menu makeover – but rarely is the same attention given to the bar.
Until [...]

Read Full Post »

Spies like us

Twenty years ago, if you wanted to know what your competitors were up to, you’d hire a private investigator or plant a spy — serious, dangerous, not-so-legal stuff! Twenty years from now, we’ll probably all share the same hive mind and the very concept of competition will be obsolete.
But in the meantime, [...]

Read Full Post »

Too cruel a rule

I once knew a guy who knew a guy who had an odd food rule. It went something like, “No hot drinks / No cold meats.” Now, I’m a very tolerant sort who doesn’t like to criticize the food preferences of others — with one sole exception that I’ll write about soon — [...]

Read Full Post »

“My father … has been known to set napkins on fire …”

A menu says so much about your restaurant, which is why the importance of proofreading can’t be underestimated. But the challenge doesn’t stop there — according to a study set to appear in the October issue of Psychological Science, even small changes in menu fonts “can significantly alter people’s perceptions of dishes’ complexity [...]

Read Full Post »

Faster, technology! Fulfill! Fulfill!

I love technology. Even though it’s been nearly a decade since I pitched story ideas to itbusiness.ca, I still check out the site, because I know I’ll read something there that registers on my neat-o-meter.
So it was pretty neat-o to see this story, posted yesterday: How cool technologies help fast food move even faster.
The [...]

Read Full Post »

Nibbles from all over: Blog edition

A note to readers: now that our lead writer has stepped out from the comfortable shadow of obscurity, we’ll be switching over to first-person pronouns. We’ll see how that goes.
In the vast sea of excellent Canadian food blogs, there are three that we I make sure to visit on a regular basis:

Gremolata bills [...]

Read Full Post »