Tuesday, May 25, 2010

It's A Wrap - Some of What You Missed or More of What You Long For


Charlie Rose, host of “The Charlie Rose Show” and keynote speaker of this year’s National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show, noted that restaurants are key meeting places for Americans’ most important conversations and experiences. 

Fittingly, the foodservice industry’s largest annual gathering once again brought operators together to learn how to serve their businesses and their customers better.

Throughout the four-day conference held at Chicago’s McCormick Place, industry advocates and operators stressed the importance of being proactive in the face of a business climate complicated by such things as the fledgling economic recovery, social media, growing government regulation and changing culinary trends...

CLICK HERE To read the whole kit and caboodle...(And don't forget to catch the comprehensive wrap-up section in the June 7 issue of Nation's Restaurant News.)
                                                                                               -- Mark Brandau -- 


Charlie Rose and Chicago chef-restaurateur Rick Bayless