I left my $450,000 tech job to open a halal BBQ restaurant in Texas. It made over $2 million in its first year.

Salahodeen Abdul-Kafi left tech for BBQ. His restaurant is profitable, but he hasn't paid himself and is living off savings.

The Youngest Chef To Helm A Two-Michelin Star Restaurant May Have A Familiar Name—But He’s Making One For Himself

Since taking over Emeril’s, his father’s iconic New Orleans restaurant four years ago, 23-year-old chef E.J. Lagasse has ...
TechCrunch

Zest launches a restaurant discovery app powered by where people actually eat

A new startup aims to reinvent how people discover their next favorite place to dine and, one day, perhaps more. Zest, a newly launched restaurant discovery app, uses a combination of transaction data ...
Morningstar

90 Days with Toast IQ: How Restaurant Operators Are Using Toast IQ to Find Time, Protect Margins, and Grow

Toast (NYSE: TOST) released its latest Restaurant Trends Report, providing insight into the state of the U.S. restaurant industry through an analysis of aggregated data from selected cohorts1 of ...
scmp.com

This Edinburgh Chinese restaurant is dying. Meet the daughter using social media to save it

“My mum’s Chinese restaurant is dying,” Scottish-born Chinese actor Lisa He says, recording herself speaking as she walks down a street in Edinburgh. “And I have three months to save it.” He posted ...
Yahoo

You can make the Ghostface do whatever you want on this Scary Movie website

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The popular horror parody Scary Movie is back with an interesting movie marketing campaign. With the movie hitting theaters on ...
Grub Street

A Lesser Work

Three days after Sotheby’s successfully auctioned a Rothko for $85.8 million, I dined with the acquisitions class at Marcel, the fine-dining commissary in the auctioneer’s newly acquired (ex-Whitney, ...