The other threat: The big restaurant chains are growing, too, and fast.
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In any case, they are just as good steamed at home as in any big city restaurant where you pay top dollar for them.
Las Vegas restaurateur and Top Chef Masters contestant Alex Stratta rolled the dice on his first Big Apple restaurant, the recently opened Bigoli .
His core discovery, of how to get spatial information about atoms in a magnetic field, was scribbled on a paper napkin over dinner in a Big Boy restaurant in Pittsburgh, between two bites of a hamburger.
Dairy Queen isn't the only big-name restaurant shrinking menu items.
"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.
At an Italian restaurant in Big Bear, staff and diners were relieved to hear the manhunt was finally over.
Into the second category, the realm of the purely selfless, fall acts such as sacrificing your life for a stranger or, less dramatically, leaving a big tip at a restaurant you will not be visiting again.
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.
This (restaurant) was a big dream when it started off ... and she made it happen.
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McDonald's, who have a highly successful French operation, says that the market is big enough for both kinds of restaurant.
More recently, in the gustatory realm, the big news has been the Danish restaurant Noma and the foraging philosophy that underpins it.
So ladies, the guy you've recently started seeing is set to take you on that first big dinner date to a nice restaurant.
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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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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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.
This has been happening for decades, but caught recent attention when Burger King announced it would sell off a group of 278 restaurants to franchisee Carrols Restaurant Group, an operator so big it is publicly traded.
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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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Joyner lends his name to a platter of fried food at Long John Silver's restaurant chain, even though he's a big booster of health education.
Certain transactions, including gasoline, airline tickets, jewelry and other big-ticket items, are more likely to be flagged than restaurant charges.
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.
Martin Sayers, who runs Mimosa restaurant and bar in the centre, said it was a big issue at night.
Guests were forced to check out of the Volcano House Hotel and Restaurant at the Volcanoes National Park on the Hawaii's Big Island.
The restaurant closes each year in November and, in preparation of the big day, reopens annually on Feb. 13.
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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.
Restaurant-grade appliances and plenty of counter space will make prepping the big meal a breeze.
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 I ever return to a restaurant, I may be remembered to my advantage, but if I do not, no big deal, and others may benefit from my efforts.
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