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	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Economy Hurts Restaurants - But Some Fighting Bigger Battles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are in the restaurant business, the economy has forced you to change how you do business. Perhaps small changes, but fewer people eating out, less disposable income for many and fear of further declines has impacted all segments of the industry. Before you start feeling sorry for yourself, what if the economy was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Marketing for Restaurants Articles Get Blasted</title>
		<link>http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/social-media-marketing-for-restaurants-articles-gets-blasted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Out come the proponents of sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, FourSquare and dozens of others. Consultants, site managers, digital tool developers and others sent me mail about their success stories on networking sites and mobile marketing. Stop - I get it!
Nothing has changed the original focus of the articles about building a presence on these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Marketing for Restaurants - Getting the Most Bang for Time Spent</title>
		<link>http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/social-media-marketing-for-restaurants-getting-the-most-bang-for-time-spent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post the discussion centered on the use of social networking as a marketing tool for restaurants. Here the issue is relevance of the major two players - Facebook and Twitter. Once again, I emphasize that social media marketing is only a small part of your overall marketing efforts.
Facebook is a place where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Social Media Marketing Planning</title>
		<link>http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/restaurant-social-media-marketing-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the hoopla surrounding sites like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, MySpace, YouTube and all the rest, it is easy to see why many restaurants are joining the rush to engage their customers on these sites. But hold on there restaurant owner or manager - you have some planning to do!
It&#8217;s easy for a restaurant to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Restaurant Food Costs, Taxes, Labor and Other Sure Bets</title>
		<link>http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/increasing-restaurant-food-costs-taxes-labor-and-other-sure-bets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Costs to Start a Restaurant]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Independent restaurateur can anticipate many more months of challenges from uncontrollable, but predictable forces accumulating for small businesses. The Health Care Bill, unprecedented national debt, immigration reform and financial reform will cost us money in many ways. These pending national issues will bring forth regulations, bureaucratic paperwork, increases in the form of fees and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burger Craze May Be More About Consumer Restaurant Spending Than Eating</title>
		<link>http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/burger-craze-may-be-more-about-consumer-restaurant-spending-than-eating/</link>
		<comments>http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/burger-craze-may-be-more-about-consumer-restaurant-spending-than-eating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[hamburgers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly there is a national &#8220;fad&#8221; with hamburgers. It seems the fascination with big, juicy hunks of fried ground beef topped with some kind of cheese is trendy. Celebrity chefs are capitalizing on the phenomenon with burger boutiques and the big chains are bucking the health police by offering larger more complex burgers.
Question - Is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every Time I Travel&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/every-time-i-travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[lessons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It never fails. Every time I travel for a brief vacation, I can&#8217;t get away from the restaurant business. You have to eat. My mind, eyes and ears tend to observe the events related to the restaurant business unfolding as you eat and drink.
In this case we were in Key west for a few days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Tip - Food Shows for Research - Not Testing Samples</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Most restaurateurs go to many food shows year after year. They face the same poorly cooked unsavory looking samples under heat lamps at booths spread across a convention hall floor. Except for the occasional Vienna hot dog or the fresh baked brownie, most of the food doesn&#8217;t warrant more than filling an open space in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Not a Replacement for Basic Restaurant Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/social-media-not-a-replacement-for-basic-restaurant-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/social-media-not-a-replacement-for-basic-restaurant-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent customer survey determined that about 30% of our guests used Facebook. Admittedly, the number was larger than I expected. Incorrect assumptions lead me to think that the social media market was more fractured and our clientele was in a demographic area that had a higher age group than average. While building a strategy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Guest&#8217;s Expectations Easy for Some</title>
		<link>http://www.startingarestaurantblog.com/meeting-guests-expectations-easy-for-some/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stopping at a birthday celebration reminded me of how some easily meet their restaurant&#8217;s customers&#8217; expectations. It was a Wednesday evening at 6 PM. There was standing room only for about 100 guests at a little burger joint in a suburb of a major metropolitan area. Inside seating was about 30 and the balance was [...]]]></description>
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