Recently, Mrs. Obama has worked on improving restaurant nutrition and eliminating so-called food deserts -- low-income communities where healthy food is too expensive and scarce.
Smith called on Darden to consider other options to boost share value, including slashing operating costs, improving restaurant results and divesting real estate.
He's promising air-conditioned villas for two to eight people, spa, gym, yoga and improved restaurants for $80 a night including breakfast - all to be completed by this autumn.
All over the country, airports are remodeling terminals to improve restaurants and to apply new retailing ideas, including vending machines that dispense high-end items like $300 Apple iPods.
Executives said the dollar-menu's double cheeseburger, which competes with McDonald's Dollar Menu double burger with one cheese slice, has helped improve restaurant traffic in the United States.
The real way to improve restaurant life is to eliminate the capricious practice of tipping, to raise staff salaries to a decent level and to develop some kind of delicious but no-cal crème brûlée.
Gravity, a tool that "mines your interests from Facebook and Twitter to present things from around the Web to you," is tweaking its software, he said, with the aim of performing functions like delivering improved restaurant recommendations and powering personalized news readers.
There are many operational requirements to run a restaurant; here we'll highlight a few of the tech options that are vying to improve restaurant operations and consumer experiences.
McDonald's U.S. division,which has more than 40% of the 30,000 restaurants worldwide, has been posting healthier results for two years since the company eased its expansion, honing in on improving existing restaurants and launching a series of successful products.
It had been struggling in the late 1990s, but began a turnaround under Mr. Cantalupo, who limited expansion and focused on improving existing restaurants.
