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'47 Percent' Filmmaker Had Previous Encounter With Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 03.13.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The bartender who secretly filmed Mitt Romney's infamous "47 percent" remarks at a Boca Raton fundraiser last May had an idea of what th...

Three Keys to a Winning Attitude for a Service Business

George Bradt | Posted 01.20.2013 | Small Business
George Bradt

If you create value for your customer primarily through service or support, you must be responsive and flexible. Corporate cruise pioneers Joyce Landry and Josephine Kling get that, do that, and live that belief.

PHOTO: Server Begs Kitchen To Not 'F*ck Up' The Eggs Benedict This Time

Posted 06.11.2012 | Home

Restaurant work is hard, people. The wages are low, you're on your feet for many hours a day and sometimes customers can be real jerks. Jennifer f...

Vast Majority Food Industry Workers Don't Make Enough Money To Live On

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 08.06.2012 | Business

What did you have for breakfast today? Chances are good it came to you by way of someone barely making a living. A new report from the Food Chai...

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

Tim Zagat and Nina Zagat | Posted 10.08.2011 | Home
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 | Business

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 | Home

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 | Home

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 jalapeños,...

Restaurant Tipping Around The World: 25 Countries' Gratuity Protocol

The Huffington Post | Joe Daly | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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 | Business
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 | Business

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...