PDA, a Thai social enterprise, distributes condoms and contraceptive advice through a network of restaurants.
La Farigoule is one of the region's Bistrot de Pays, a network of restaurants committed to local food at reasonable prices.
Social and serial smokers are puffing away at an underground network of restaurants that would rather risk a health inspection than alienate valued customers.
He said: "We have raised a few thousand dollars through our small network of restaurants - but we would love to increase our reach.
In response to student demand for a way to text food orders to restaurants in between classes, Campusfood.com, an online network of restaurants available on more than 300 campuses, began offering text and SMS message ordering in April.
They handle food production and food safety for a vast network of restaurants without, they hope, encountering the kind of contamination outbreaks that have battered Chipotle the past few years.
Naturally, a seeker like Sandor Katz couldn't resist an invitation to visit Momofuku's laboratory of fermentation, so after lunch he took a short stroll to an unmarked sliver of office space in the East Village, where he met Dan Felder, the 28-year-old head of R&D for Mr. Chang's network of restaurants.
Mr. English's seemingly improvisatory, flirty, phone-juggling, eager-to-please, throw-it-against-a-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks approach to empire building, accompanied by a stubborn welter of lawsuits and a flurry of critical jabs, has led some observers to wonder whether his vast network of restaurants is too diffuse and unfocused.
He realized that he has access to a network of restaurants and if he is successful in creating a business around them in such a manner that it can be an asset to his retail venture.
