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January 16, 2020
News | 5W Public Relations, one of the 15 largest independently-owned PR firms in the US, has determined that dining out, travel and experiences rank at the top of the list as the category consumers are most likely to splurge on, as determined by their 2020 Consumer Culture Report.
The survey showed that Dining Out and Travel/Experiences ranked first and second respectively across all...
January 14, 2020
News | - Dining out has become a staple of Americans' monthly eating habits, with 83% of consumers eating a meal outside the home at least once per month
- Americans now spend an average of $281 on dining out in a typical month
- Discounts and deals influence Americans' out-of-home dining choices more than expected: 77% say a deal would make them more likely to choose to dine out...
January 13, 2020
Press Release | Mayor Releases Study on Supporting Minority- and Women-Owned Small Businesses
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser and Interim Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development John Falcicchio awarded over $2.3 million in Fiscal Year 2020 Great Streets Small Business Grants to 48 local small businesses. The investment continues Mayor Bowser’s effort to...
January 10, 2020
News | S&D Coffee & Tea® and Nation's Restaurant News Tap Restaurant Operators to Determine Top Trends
Leading beverage supplier and innovator S&D Coffee & Tea® recently teamed up with Nation's Restaurant News to predict the top beverage trends most likely to appear on restaurant menus in 2020. Drawn from a comprehensive survey* commissioned among restaurant...
January 9, 2020
News | Original content: VinePair
By Jennifer Simonson
Chile runs along South America’s western edge from the dry desert in the north to a field of glaciers in the south. Rugged mountains, fertile valleys, never-ending coastline, rumbling volcanoes and scorched sand dunes all clash to provide this long, thin country with a captivating landscape. For winemakers, that landscape is more than...
January 9, 2020
News | Original content: Forbes
By Cathy Huyghe Contributor
If you’re a wine lover, and if you’re heads-up about current events and world news, then the New Year hasn’t been very celebratory so far. The bad news seems overwhelming and far-reaching, between devastating fires in Australia to bureaucrat types in Washington and Europe debating tariffs and deciding the fate of so...
January 9, 2020
News | Original content: The New York Times
By David Yaffe-Bellany
Published Jan. 9, 2020; Updated Jan. 10, 2020, 12:58am ET
Responding to criticism that it was cutting into restaurant profits, the food-delivery giant said it was making a change to stop charging fees for calls that do not end with an order.
Facing mounting pressure from regulators and restaurant owners...
January 9, 2020
Press Release | Washington, DC (January 9, 2020) — The 38th Annual RAMMY Awards will return to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Sunday, July 26, 2020. Nominations for 20 categories will be accepted online today, January 9, through February 20, 2020, including four categories for which the general public will select a winner. New in 2020, the awards program’s...
January 8, 2020
News | Original content: Eater Las Vegas
by Susan Stapleton Jan 8, 2020, 9:00am PST
A new Las Vegas-based organization plans to bring together female restaurant industry mentors with newcomers to help them navigate the hospitality world. Elizabeth Blau of Blau + Associates and restaurants such as Honey Salt and Buddy V’s Ristorante and Mary Choi Kelly of MCK...
January 8, 2020
News | A new study from the market research team at Zion & Zion, a top-ranked, full-service, national marketing agency, examines the problems and frustrations that consumers experience with multi-restaurant delivery websites/apps like Grubhub and UberEATS.
The findings of Zion & Zion's research have implications for both restaurants and delivery apps:
Non-millennials experience...
January 7, 2020
News | Original content: Forbes
By Jill Barth
Members of the Wine Origins Alliance yesterday submitted a jointly signed letter for the US Trade Representative’s (USTR) public comment period on tariffs in response to aircraft subsidies and France’s Digital Services Tax.
The United States on December 2, 2019 threatened to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on $...
January 7, 2020
News | Original content: The New York Times
By Priya Krishna
The nation’s chain restaurants don’t reap much critical praise, but many high-end chefs say they got a priceless, practical education there.
Cassidee Dabney has one of the more coveted jobs in her field: executive chef of the Barn at Blackberry Farm, an award-winning restaurant, both luxurious and deeply connected to the land,...
January 7, 2020
Press Release | DC Brau to Host the DC Brewers’ Guild’s Sixth Annual Beer Festival Celebrating Hop-Forward Offerings on Saturday, March 14th
Washington, DC -- January 7, 2020 -- All hail the mighty hop! The DC brewing community invites hop-lovers to its sixth annual HopFest on Saturday, March 14th from 1:00 - 5:00pm. HopFest 2020, the only DC beer festival by local brewers, for local brewers, will...
December 20, 2019
News |
Original content c/o: FSR Magazine
Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) announced the roster of restaurants participating in Winter Restaurant Week from Monday, January 13, through Sunday, January 19, 2020. The highly anticipated biannual promotion’s website http://www.rwdmv.com/ is live and will be updated regularly with menus from each of the...
December 17, 2019
News | Original content: DCist
By Jacob Fenston
What would it take to keep most of the waste produced in DC out of landfills and incinerators? It would require wide-ranging changes to how residents and businesses deal with what they toss out — from batteries to glass bottles — according to new legislation making its way through the DC Council.
Sequoia Ireland works the compost drop...
