WHEN Robin Michaels of Lawrenceville cooks Thanksgiving dinner for 25 friends and family members, the menu will include salad with roasted beets, turkey rubbed with herb butter, corn soufflé and sour cherry pie.
Staff members know the menu and keep an eye on the tables, topping off water glasses repeatedly, for instance.
As they wrangled over the 2012 budget, the city's recession-weary mayor, Bill Saffo, and his fellow Council members faced a menu of increasingly distasteful options.
The player may switch between available members via a menu in the pause screen at any time.
The resulting quality improvement intervention (AMP training plus) had three interlinked strands: Knowledge transfer: including a training component of up to six sessions, selected by practice members from a menu of subject options.
The concert fit the bill: audience members received a "music menu" at the door and were called on at random to choose the next piece to be played.
Billed as an old New York speakeasy, Employees Only has stealthily Balkanized its menu: other members of the team are Serbian, Bosnian and Greek.
Ashley Christensen, the chef who has revitalized the kitchen at Poole's Diner in downtown Raleigh, N.C., pulled off a bold stunt last month, serving a vegetarian menu to members of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the group's conference on barbecue.
High-end chains have been expanding steadily, increasing their menus of member services, while cheaper options for the new middle classes, like a chain called Smart Fit, have been popping up rapidly.
Also gone are the grim-faced staff members and Cyrillic menus that offered the same starchy foods one could have found in a Soviet cafeteria.
