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The Meatball Shop co-owner Michael Chernow discusses potential pitfalls to a restaurant's business....More

The Meatball Shop co-owner Michael Chernow discusses managing restaurant employees....More

The Meatball Shop co-owner Daniel Holzman advises restaurants to grow slowly....More

Top of the Hill restaurant owner Scott Maitland says the customer is not always right....More

Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery owner Scott Maitland offers advice on how to negotiate a smart initial lease, and why doing weekly inventory is a must....More

Scott Maitland, owner of Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery in Chapel Hill, N.C., discusses the seduction of the restaurant business, money as a scorecard, and how he measures success....More

Brad Friedlander steers a budding empire split between two distinct markets....More

This video series is designed to convey practical wisdom and advice from successful independent restaurant owners....More

The third of five videos with Dave Query, owner of Big Red F Restaurant Group is titled "Investors, business structure and the million dollar problem.”...More

Plans include another Mercadito in New York and a Chicago pop-up restaurant...More

Ten years ago Matt Frey left a career in corporate sales in to open Bub's Burgers & Ice Cream in Carmel, IN, with his wife, Rachel. Both had worked in restaurants, but neither had ever owned one or even managed one. We all know where this story is going, right?...More