Sentences with phrase «like opening a restaurant»

Debuting your completed book without first having some reviews on Amazon is like opening a restaurant without first building any fanfare.

Just like opening a restaurant on Main Street or introducing a new tube of toothpaste on the shelves of big stores, starting promotion early provides reviews and «buzz» for your book right when it's new and fresh, and «on the shelf» — online or in bookstores.

Not exact matches

Though the new corporate headquarters isn't opening until later this spring, the restaurant itself is open and features a rotating menu of global McDonald's favorites from countries like France, Brazil, and Australia, as well as traditional McDonald's menu items like the Big Mac and Chicken McNuggets.

They're opening outlets near college campuses, sprucing up restaurants with youthful amenities (high - top community tables, wifi outlets), and innovating the menu with dishes like the croissant waffle, or the Criss - Croissant.

The startup began by creating a Shazam - like song recognition app called Midomi; now, the newly released Hound app is capable of answering complex voice prompts like, «Show me all below - average - priced restaurants within a five - mile radius that are open past 10 p.m. but don't include Chinese or pizza places,» or «What's the weather like in the capital of the biggest state in the U.S.?»

If you're serious about opening an apparel store, you need to know that, like the restaurant business, the apparel business is risky.

Turnas says that he's looked to fine dining restaurateurs, who have opened up fast casual concepts — like Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, which expanded from high - end restaurants like Gramercy Tavern and the Modern into the Shake Shack chain.

Opening a restaurant might seem like an odd choice for Mark and Donnie Wahlberg, who are best known for their acting and singing.

The grocer is opening the second location of its new standalone restaurant concept, called Kitchen 1883, in the Cincinnati, Ohio area — and the meals look nothing like what you can find in one of Kroger's grocery stores.

«If you're opening a location - based business, like a restaurant, that competitor research might involve visiting other venues in person to judge quality, service, aesthetics and other factors through which you want to differentiate your own business»,

«If you're opening a location - based business, like a restaurant, that competitor research might involve visiting other venues in person to judge quality, service, aesthetics and other factors through which you want to differentiate your own business», Score says.

Most restaurants grow their revenue by opening more locations and eventually developing a franchise model like Subway.

If you'd like a safer bet than starting your own restaurant from scratch, consider opening a franchise of an established restaurant chain, and reap the benefits of an already - popular brand.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

These restaurants also tend to feature reasonable - but - not - bargain prices (around $ 8 for an individual pizza), assembly lines with fresh ingredients, as well as plenty of stainless steel, see - through glass and open kitchens — so that, like Chipotle, the impression is that they have nothing to hide.

There are little respites from this, like a local gay - friendly restaurant or some gay - owned businesses... or open and affirming congregations like the one I attend.

As far as we know, buttermilk syrup is a Utah creation (just like fry sauce) with it's origins beginning at a local restaurant called «Magleby's» which closed years ago but has many smaller restaurants open around the state, which still serve this amazing elixir.

Jalil and Oz have also partnered with fine dining chef Gal Ben Moshe to create a pop up restaurant that makes appearances a couple of times a month at some of Berlin's major food and culture events, like Conductor Daniel Barenboim's season opening gala.

As for training those quality people, if it's a new location, Brooks likes to provide four weeks of training before the restaurant opens.

«When we open up a new restaurant, it's like opening up «Avatar» at the movie theaters,» President Mike Ranney says.

«He was thinking about opening up an Italian family style restaurant like Coney Island geared toward Sunday night at your house, with grandmother cooking old - fashioned Italian recipes — big portions on platters put out family style — or similar to an Italian wedding,» Bank relates.

«The restaurants tend to be open — more like a Chicago loft look — and not overly neon,» Mrlik says.

This vegan restaurant only opened in April but on my visit it was full of hungry people ordering brunch like there was no tomorrow.

My boyfriend said we could open a restaurant with lasagna like this.

Botiwalla, which will open this April in Atlanta's Ponce City Market, is one of a new breed of restaurants that includes Babu Ji, Floyd Cardoz's upcoming Paowalla in New York City, Michael Mina's The Company pop - up in San Francisco and a slew of fast - casual spots like Inday and Soho Tiffin Junction, which are pushing Indian cuisine forward, moving it beyond lunchtime buffets and saag paneer into more nuanced territory — the likes of which could do what, say, David Chang has done for Korean food with the Momofuku empire or Danny Bowien's interpretation of Chinese with Mission Chinese.

He has opened over a dozen restaurants in Las Vegas, New York, Atlantic City, and the Bahamas, where he likes to vacation.

Since the New Southern renaissance turned the spotlight on Charleston a decade ago, restaurants have been opening at a gold rush pace, garnering the kind of media attention and food world cred usually reserved for towns with, like, more than 125,000 people.

In the midst of the restaurant opening process, in March, we spent the day with the duo to learn what it's like being off the line, and just what it takes to make a restaurant dream a reality.

This is where your apartment stops smelling like your roommates» laundry and starts smelling like that new restaurant that opened near your friend's place.

Truly — this great year has given me ideas for even more restaurants I'd like to open next,» he concludes.

«Each time we open an Urban Farmer Steakhouse is like opening a brand new restaurant, and we're thrilled to bring this concept to our hometown of Denver,» says Peter Karpinski, Co-Founder of SRG.

Opened last June, The Four Horsemen is Murphy & Co.'s entry into a club of culty wine - driven restaurants like 10 William Street (Sydney), Ahiru Store (Tokyo), and Manfreds & Vin (Copenhagen).

In addition to award - winning restaurants like Hollywood Prime, resort amenities include watersports and two marinas, an 18 - hole championship golf course managed by Troon Golf ®, a 10 - clay court Tennis Center, a 30,000 - square - foot full - service spa and an additional 14,000 - square - foot Heavenly Spa by Westin ™ set to open in April 2013.

The competition continues to grow with what seems like new restaurants opening everyday with all different sorts of concepts and cuisine.

«Opening your own restaurant can seem like a daunting task,» said Bologna.

Kitchen Fund was founded in partnership with Fransmart, the leading global franchise development firm behind the explosive growth of brands like Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Qdoba, and The Halal Guys, and responsible for opening more than 5,000 restaurants worldwide.

«As we continue our rapid expansion of restaurants in non-traditional spaces like airports and casino locations, we look forward to the opening of the first Denver airport location and giving travelers the opportunity to a taste local Denver flavors as they come and go from our hometown.»

Exactly like when you enter a Mexican restaurant (specially ones which have open kitchen) and first sniff is that aroma of meat simmering in garlic, tomatoes, chilies and spices... corn tortillas.

THROUGH THE restaurant's open streetside window, 61st Street glistens in the cool rain, small puddles reflecting the white light of nearby buildings like sparkling footlamps.

The restaurant, which officially opened on Tuesday at 15110 S. LaGrange Road in Orland Park, features shawarma (marinated chicken or beef slow roasted on a rotating spit), falafel (deep fried mix of chick peas, herbs and spices), hummus, baba ghanoush (similar to hummus but made with eggplant instead of chickpeas), chip - like French fries, pitas, salads, rice and fried chicken schnitzel, a German classic also common in Israel.

And the size of it when it opens out - it wheels like a dream through tight bus aisles, between restaurant tables, through ticket gates at the train station.

Ali Celik, owner of Mercato's Pizzeria and Restaurant in Delmar, said he'd like to open a similar Italian restaurant on Lark Street, but the city's current zoning code makes that a daunting task.

You'll pass through wide - open prairies, shady wooded areas, and several small towns with rest areas and amenities — like restaurants, bars, and shops — for tired, hungry riders.

It is seriously like an outdoor mall now and there are so many more restaurants open since the last time we have been over there.

And with so many fun new hotels (like the Kimpton Everly, pictured here), restaurant openings, and events, there are plenty of reasons for me to dress up.

It's a great idea if you like to hold your girl's hand while crossing the road or open the restaurant door for her.

Women love to be given gifts, have doors opened for them, be extended compliments and feel like they are queen for the day when you spring for a spa appointment or dinner at a fine restaurant.

Dating a sugar daddy can open you up to new and exciting things, like vacations to beautiful places and dinners at luxurious restaurants.

Played from its opening whimsical guitar score as a sweet story about friends, the dynamic of a real - life, Apatow - brand bromance is prominent, and makes for a few funny bonding moments, like when Tommy has Greg loudly rehearse a scene in a restaurant as a ridiculous gesture of fearlessness.

Moments later, Beck is taking on «the entire offensive line» of an American pro-football team with little effort, and it is as though Arnie has been reincarnated on screen — except that, while Beck may be a kick - ass «retrieval expert» of bull - like proportions and astonishing resilience, he is also genuinely eager to avoid violence («I don't want to fight» being his catchphrase), phobic about gun - use (until the inevitable pump - action finale, naturally), and really just interested in opening his own restaurant — and, unlike the he - men portrayed by Arnie, Sly and other eighties right - wingers (most of whom have in fact gone on to open their own restaurants), Beck can bang articulate sentences together as well as heads.