Looks like the nationwide java joust has gotten ugly enough for Starbucks to start a price war in select markets.
The coffee giant that slew Seattle and then the world has cut prices on its smallest cup o’ joe down to a $1. McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts and any number of service stations offering premium coffee have […]

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It appears Max & Erma’s, a chain of cozy neighborhood cafes, is in a financial bind. As trade journalist David Farkas writes, the chain’s primary creditor, National City Bank, doesn’t like the way Max and Erma are balancing their checkbook, and the NASDAQ stock exchange is threatening to delist their company because its market value […]

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Restaurateurs have done their best to not jack up menu prices this year, but if current forecasts are right, hold onto your wallets, folks.
Multiple owners I’ve talked to say they’ve held off as long as they can, but if they don’t make changes, they’re headed out of business.
Not only are restaurateurs paying more for the […]

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Though I hadn’t seen Greg Haner, owner of Mazzoni’s Oysters in Louisville, in at least a decade, bumping into him at the National Restaurant Association Hotel & Motel Show in Chicago last May seemed perfectly natural. Haner and I became friends at St. Xavier High School nearly 30 years ago, a time when both of […]

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