Service Industry

Tim & Nina Zagat: The Restaurant Industry's Hospitality Problem

Tim Zagat and Nina Zagat | Posted 10.08.2011

Tim Zagat and Nina Zagat

When you dine out now, there's an excellent chance that your chef has had formal training. Why not your waitress, too?

Service Sector Growing At Slowest Pace In Well Over A Year

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 10.03.2011

WASHINGTON — Service businesses such as restaurants, hotels and financial companies experienced their weakest growth in 17 months in July. The ...

Mixologists Or Bartenders?

Zagat | By Michael Neff | Posted 05.25.2011

In an era rife with special types of bitters, pre-prohibition drink recipes and fancy ice cubes, a major question lingers over liquid culture: What on...

Disgruntled Restaurant Workers Poison Salsa

Slashfood | Posted 05.25.2011

What's the matter with Kansas? Well, the salsa served at some of the restaurants in the state packed too much of a punch -- not from spicy jalapeƱos,...

Restaurant Tipping Around The World: 25 Countries' Gratuity Protocol

The Huffington Post | Joe Daly | Posted 05.25.2011

Daniel Maurer at Grub Street recently covered the findings of a new French study that found that people dining to songs with "pro-social" lyrics are 1...

A Bartender's Guide to the Gender Wage Gap

Cristen Conger | Posted 05.25.2011

Cristen Conger

If employment sectors on the shallower end of the income pool aren't fully supporting women, we still have plenty of room left for gender progress in the workplace from top to bottom.

10 Industries That Will GAIN The Most Jobs In Next Decade

Posted 05.25.2011

Though Nobel laureate Paul Krugman called this decade "the big zero" -- as in zero wage growth, zero stock market growth, etc. -- it's probably safe t...