Almost half of New York restaurant workers, at 49%, did not consider the family meal provided by their restaurant to be nutritious.
Michael McGuan, Porter's general manager, expected at least half of the restaurant's eight servers to quit.
Now, 21 years later, the Beard Foundation has finally gotten around to honoring the other half of every restaurant's liquor regimen.
In many cases, responses to one half of a restaurant are colored by the existence of the other half.
The other half of the restaurant's name translates, of course, as "bull" — not an item on the menu, like the excellent mero, but a well-earned reference to Baja-style surf-and-turf.
We check in with the hostess, expecting that she'll take us immediately to one of the many lovely tables available in the more attractive, front half of the restaurant.
Normally, half of a restaurant's money goes toward buying food (the rest is split between rent, payroll, and keeping Guy Fieri away), but the French Word's ambience is inviting enough that food is unnecessary.
There was no time to dither -- even though the prospects were inauspicious: the front half of the restaurant was a smoke-filled cafe with pinball machines (since removed) and men studying racing forms at the bar.
"We have one foot in Slovenia and one foot in Croatia," said Kalin, who has a Slovene father and a Croatian mother and who woke up one day in May 2004 to find that the Slovenian half of his restaurant was in the European Union and the Croatian half was outside.
About half of all restaurant customers care about making healthy food choices and limiting their calories, said Chris Malone, senior vice president for marketing at Aramark, a large food service company that conducts an annual survey of out-of-home eating habits.
