If you're a restaurant or a retailer, you have to work hard to insure that your customers keep coming back.
If you'd seen what I'd seen in the restaurant my dad ran when I was growing up, the crap we had to put up with from drunks, the puke I had to clean out of the toilets on a Friday and Saturday night, you would know it is not just a religious issue with me.
Police believe he opened fire at three locations in the western Idaho city of Moscow, killing his landlord, his adoptive mother and a manager at a restaurant his parents frequented.
You do need at least basic English to work in a restaurant, of course, and you have to know how to provide the best service you can.
We have become suspicious: of their mawkish advertising, of their treatment of farmers, of their desperate bids to package up things that really don't need packaging up at all (I mean this literally and metaphorically, versions of "restaurant-style" dishes being every bit as phoney and wasteful as apples wrapped in too much plastic).
AJ When Nopi head chef Nicole Pisani recently left her job, it wasn't to go to another restaurant, but to run the kitchen at Gayhurst Community School in Hackney, where the six kitchen staff make lunch for 550 children and staff.
It is still rooted in Frenchified fine dining – this is a serious Michelin restaurant after all – but Smyth's cuisine is unapologetically modern.
The stealth isn't about false modesty, Smyth is sure of her ability: the first women to run a three-star restaurant in the UK, scorer of a perfect 10 in last year's Good Food Guide.
Osaka's Dōtonbori district is a Disneyland of food, where the restaurant signage includes a giant mechanical crab, a blowfish the size of a hot air balloon and a giant squid that puffs steam.
mrvikkis.co.uk KF Following on from René Redzepi taking the Noma team to Tokyo's Mandarin Oriental for a busman's holiday, another cutting-edge Scandinavian chef, Magnus Nilsson of Fäviken, has decided to close his restaurant, Fäviken, in Järpen, Sweden, for 20 weeks a year.
The move is being challenged by Republicans and by lobbyists for the restaurant industry who claim it will cost jobs.
