14.Jul.2010 at 14 | Demian
Another chapter of New York Restaurant Week has begun. And with that another case of the butterflies for me. I see Restaurant Week as a dual-edged sword of incentives. The cheaper price fix is an incentive for more diners to eat out. As well as an incentive to try restaurants they might not normally go [...]
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12.Feb.2010 at 12 | Demian
As I have mentioned before, I think that Restaurant Weekdinners can go one of two ways. One angle is that the restaurant treats it like a simple PR event, cobbling together a cheap menu so that they can have their name included on the Restaurant Week list and in all of the press coverage for as [...]
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4.Feb.2010 at 4 | Demian
Restaurant Week here in New York always brings with it a dilemma. The dilemma is this: Should the reduced price meals served during the Restaurant Week promotion be considered a fair representation of a restaurant’s offerings upon which to draw conclusions about it? Or could the pricing restrictions be seen as too confining in terms of ingredients and [...]
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