) May 14, 2009 -- Restaurant managers and owners can now have direct access to industry experts via live restaurant telephone support.

Danny Bendas

Raising access to industry expertise to a new standard, Synergy Restaurant Consultants announces a package of comprehensive restaurant telephone support solutions, offering immediate, directed and in-depth assistance to Restaurant Business Operators by veteran industry experts.

) May 12, 2009 -- New Restaurant Start Up Corbin’s Grille Retains Synergy Restaurant Consultants Corbin's Grille a new restaurant start up has opened next to the new convention center in Layton, Utah to overwhelming reviews. “This new restaurant start up has exceeded all of our wildest expectations,” explains Jake Garn, President of Corbin’s Grille.

Dean Small, Founder and Managing Partner

) July 13, 2009 -- Fired Up Inc., parent of the 170-unit casual-dining Johnny Carino's Country Italian chain, has retained Synergy Restaurant Consultants to enhance and accelerate the brand with their menu development, unique restaurant expertise and creativity. “At Carino’s, we maintain a very aggressive development schedule, and since we have been working with Synergy Restaurant Consultants, our menu efforts have been the most significant and profitable they have been in our history” says Chris Peitersen, Vice President of Culinary Operations, Johnny Carino’s Italian Executive Chef.

Mungo Design Ltd have been appointed to run all the SEO for Boulters Bar & Restaurant in Maidenhead leading up the opening of the restaurant in February 2009.

) July 24, 2009 -- Synergy Restaurant Consultants has launched a new website to help restaurants promote their value priced deals and restaurant promotions. Oh yeah, and did we mention that they're doing it for free?

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) July 10, 2009 -- Industry experts Synergy Restaurant Consultants are pleased to announce that Jim Campbell, Restaurant Supply Chain Management Veteran and Procurement Guru will join the Synergy Restaurant Consulting Team. “Jim brings an incredible amount of restaurant supply chain management knowledge and experience to our team and will be a tremendous resource to our clients,” says Dean Small, Managing Partner of Synergy Restaurant Consultants. Jim’s primary role in the Synergy organization will be to focus on mid-scale restaurants that do not have the luxury to afford someone with his vast supply chain management experience.

Jim Campbell

) October 24, 2009 -- The idea behind The Restaurant Section is for restaurant owners to affordably market their restaurants online by creating a complete fact sheet on their business profile within The Restaurant Section. Once the profile is complete, The Restaurant Section begins to market the restaurants. Clifford Bramble, the founder of The Restaurant Section wanted to pass on his experience about marketing and publicizing a restaurant to other restaurant owners. And with the technology available, and the economy on a rebound, he feels that now is the perfect time to start.

) July 14, 2009 -- A mere two weeks ago, everyone in Vidalia Georgia thought they knew hamburgers and what a fun restaurant was all about. That all changed when restaurant owner Neal Wolfe contacted Synergy Restaurant Consultants to open new restaurant start up Lobos Prime Burger. Lobos (Spanish for Wolf) is a new restaurant concept drawing on a unique combination of simplicity and mass selection for its’ success. This exciting, and fun location offers quality unmatched by the moribund franchises dotting the main highway. Of course, it has always been a traveler’s code that one should seek out the restaurant business that the locals frequent most.

) July 20, 2009 -- Raising Cane's, a Nation's Restaurant News 'Hot Concept Winner' has retained Synergy Restaurant Consultants for a Restaurant Operations Assessment as well as spearhead a Menu Development initiative, in order to improve corporate and unit operations consistencies, product quality, and product offerings to fuel future growth

Danny Bendas

) December 23, 2008 - The votes have been cast and by an overwhelming majority, I Must Eat - www.imusteat.com is the winner. I Must Eat is the most comprehensive online ordering internet restaurant dining guide out in the marketplace today.

It began at the grassroots level. It started as a small rumbling of stomachs but quickly became the number one issue of foodies across the United States. People were hungry for a nationwide online ordering restaurant dining guide and they demanded action.

Mungo Design Ltd have been appointed to run an HTML newsletter campaign for Topo Gigio restaurant, based in Soho London.

) May 12, 2009 -- DC City Blog and AllMenus.com today announced a partnership to offer visitors to Allmenus.com access to original DC City Blog reviews of restaurants in DC.

DC City Blog

The partnership reflects AllMenus.com mission to provide DC area residents with online access to local restaurant menus as well as the ability to order food online for takeout or delivery and DC City Blog's mission to provide area residents with premium content, produced by local writers.

AIS 15” POS PC System and reliable solution for kiosks, retail stores, and restaurant applications

) July 7, 2009 -- Synergy Restaurant Consultants retained for operations assessment by Uncle Joe's Pizzeria in Anchorage, AK.

Uncle Joe's Downtown

) July 16, 2009 -- Judd Brown Designs (JBD), together with their sister architectural firm Jefferson Group Architects (JGA), has been selected to create the new "Big Papi's Grille" concept. The partnership of Classic Restaurant Concepts, LLC (CRC)and David Ortiz, affectionately know to all Red Sox Nation as "Big Papi", chose JBD for this very important first for the new partnership after CRC and JBD collaborated on several other restaurant projects.

) August 25, 2008 -- Eva Magnus, the owner of Grafica said, "I am glad to offer these additional services, as with the rising cost of food, some restaurants have been losing money by waiting to redo their menus and not passing on the increased (food) costs to their customers soon enough. My fees are reasonable, and if the restaurant updates their layout, an increase in food sales should be expected. We offer laminated menus, as well as menus with a variety of different covers to choose from...or if there are existing menu covers, updating just the inserts is an option. After I supply the artwork for the new menu, the restaurant owner has the option of having Grafica print them."

) July 1, 2009 -- Synergy Restaurant Consultants Retained for Operations Assessment by Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

Parkland Memorial County Hospital

Egypt Yellow Pages Ltd has more than 12,000 restaurant listings featured on its popular YellowPages.com.eg and Mobile Yellow Pages sites.

) December 4, 2008 -- Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. (www.arbys.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Wendy's / Arby's Group, Inc. (NYSE: WEN) and one of the country's largest restaurant franchising systems, announced today that it has named Sparks Grove, Inc. (www.sparksgrove.com) its interactive agency of record (AOR).
Sparks Grove was selected following an in-depth competitive review. The agency will work with Arby's on the brand's overall digital strategy, online media and advertising, online creative development, and arbys.com web site development.

A new service developed by mixing restaurant experience, Social Media Marketing and the latest in WiFi Technologies proves to be a winning combination for guests and restaurants alike. (PRWeb Aug 13, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2733924.htm

) November 10, 2008 -- Restaurant owners are facing an unprecedented crisis in cash flow. The Restaurant Performance Index as compiled by the National Restaurant Association is at its lowest point in history. The index tracks indicators such as capital expenditures, customer traffic, sales volume and labor costs and points to a deteriorating situation across all 50 states. At the same time, the restaurants are being hard hit by the on-going credit crises. Many are being locked out of access to short-term loans essential for operations.

) October 15, 2008 -- BooRah, the leading restaurant-specific online review guide, today announced the launch of its free, location-enabled Web Services API for Web sites and businesses looking to offer online restaurant reviews and ratings to their visitors. BooRah's Web Services API delivers the same core semantic technology that powers BooRah.com and BooRah's award winning Yahoo! SearchMonkey application, along with applications suitable for portals, local newspaper publishers and location-enabled phones.

"BooRah's API offers comprehensive restaurant search capability along with unique 'Boo' and 'Rah' ratings unavailable from any other website," said Eric Moyer, CEO and Co-Founder of BooRah.

) September 3, 2009 -- Schedulefly, a leading web-based employee scheduling and communication application for restaurants, announced today that it is being leveraged at the United States Tennis Association's (USTA) 2009 US Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The scheduling tool will be used to streamline employee scheduling and communications for more than 35 restaurant staff in the USTA President's Suite, thereby enhancing the dining experience for the 180 patrons the suite can accommodate for both lunch and dinner each day of the event.

) October 30, 2009 -- On September 3, 2009, Southlake Copeland's of New Orleans launched a new website (www.southlakecopelands.com) that was developed by i5 web works. This is the first website for the restaurant, which is located inside the Hilton in Southlake Town Square.

) April 13, 2009 -- GoodFoodNearYou won first place in the prestigious Andrew Seybold Mobile Innovation Rally and AppWar during the 2009 CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"We were thrilled to be a part of the Innovation Rally and AppWar at CTIA Wireless and are honored to receive this award from Andrew Seybold," says Nick Desai, CEO of Global Fitness Media, the company developing GoodFoodNearYou. Desai is the Founder, Chairman and former CEO of Juice Wireless, and inventor of JuiceCaster, an award winning mobile social networking service offered by AT&T, T-Mobile, Nokia and others.

) March 4, 2010 -- The Momo brothers knew they would respond to the Chile crisis, just as they had a presence at the historic Nassau Inn when it spearheaded local New Jersey restaurants to raise $10,000 dollars for Haiti’s quake victims. In terms of death tolls, the two calamities are worlds apart. "But this isn’t about statistics,” say the brothers in near unison – "it’s about helping people find the courage to cope with tragedy.”

JNC Solutions, Inc. Wins Contract with Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp. for Portal Migration to Open Source Joomla.

) July 13, 2009 -- GrubHub.com, the only service that shows all the restaurants that deliver and allows users to order directly online, announced today their beta launch in Washington, D.C. GrubHub.com currently operates in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, and now the Washington, D.C./Arlington, VA area. GrubHub.com is a free service that gives access to over 8,000 menus and works with over 2,000 restaurants to provide online and phone ordering.

Who delivers to your home or office? GrubHub.com answers this question for you. Users type in their address on GrubHub.com, and the page displays every restaurant that delivers to that location, with the restaurants' menus, hours for delivery, available coupons, and reviews.

) December 22, 2008 -- The Legendary Tantra Restaurant & Lounge will be hosting their official holiday "X"Mas party on Thursday Dec. 25 from 8 PM - close. For Christmas, the ladies will enjoy complimentary drinks until midnight while everyone receives free admission. Celebrity DJ Short-E from New York City will supply the open format music which features a mix of smooth R&B, Hip-Hop, House and Pop-Rock. H4E TV will be filming the event throughout the night for DJ Short-E's TV show which airs in the NYC Market.

) December 3, 2008 -- Schedulefly, the leader in online restaurant scheduling, announced today a new business deal with Planet Hollywood. Planet Hollywood, a world renowned dining venue, selected Schedulefly to be used in six restaurant locations serving over 1,000 unique users in the system. The solution improves employee communication and streamlines the scheduling process.

) September 12, 2009 -- GroupExclusives.com offers collegiate, youth, amateur and association team travel planners a fun and creative way to receive cost and time saving bids direct from hotels and restaurants. With the introduction of the restaurant RFP functionality, the site now offers complete hotel and meal solutions to traveling sports teams.

GroupExclusives.com Home page

JOHNS CREEK, GA CEC Search launches a start-of-the art job portal website tailored to suit the job searching needs of restaurant professionals. The site was launched on July 14th, 2006 to correspond with the first anniversary of the executive search firm's founding.

) May 15, 2009 -- Scott Shaw, Founder and CEO of Fishbowl, Inc. will lead a panel discussion entitled "How to Stand Out in a Tough Economy" at the 2009 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, Illinois. On Sunday, May 17th at 2pm, Shaw and a panel of industry experts and restaurant owners will outline how implementing innovative business strategies and refocusing sales and marketing efforts can still drive success in these economic times. The panelists include Curtis Stalnaker, IT Director for Godfather's Pizza, Jon Young, President of Dine & Drink Inc. and Denny Hebson, Marketing Director for Hackney's Restaurant.

Fishbowl.com

) October 31, 2008 -- In New York alone, the average price for a dozen eggs has risen over 25% since 2007 with food prices in general increasing by more than 5%. Combine that with the dismal economy, a battered Wall St and reduced incomes and it's fair to say, that New Yorkers are starting to feel the pinch. With the average price of $15.00 for a decent Manhattan lunch, New Yorkers are in need of a bailout of their own. Launching this week, Lunchtimedeals.com allows users to find lunch deals in their area and request these specials and coupons via email or text messaging.

Channel One Networks Implements Search Engine and Video Site for Local Restaurants

Foodyvista.com is a social networking website that is used to connect people with restaurants, bars and night clubs of their choice. Anyone can contribute content; upload relevant photos and videos.

) December 1, 2008 -- 1TouchSoftware Solutions, Inc. (1TouchSoftware), the leading provider of fully integrated Enterprise Restaurant Management Systems (eRMS), today announced that Carolina Wings and Rib House, an expanding Southeast Restaurant Chain and Franchisor, has selected the 1TouchSoftware suite of real-time restaurant front, back and above house software solutions. Carolina Wings and Rib House selected the entire suite of 1TouchSoftware eRMS software modules to help maximize revenues, reduce costs and increase customer service.

) July 30, 2009 -- Red Lobster Senior Executive Chef Michael LaDuke and Food Network's panel of judges selected Jeffrey Saad as the episode winner of The Next Food Network Star's July 19th program.

Red Lobster

With the win, Saad, of Los Angeles, Calif., earned the distinction of having his winning wood-grilled fresh fish with spicy soy broth entrée featured on the "Today's Fresh Fish" menu at 690 Red Lobsters across North America.

) December 3, 2008 -- Hotels and resorts jumped on the online reservations bandwagon a decade ago, forever shifting vacation planning to the virtual world. Restaurants, it seems, are now following suit. With the internet age quickly invading consumer cell phones, Ipods, and car counsels, dining establishments are vying for more professional websites, broader internet presence, and convenient online reservation systems to attract more patrons. One chic Miami Beach restaurant and nightclub, Kitchen 305, is joining the trend and pioneering forward with a new state-of-the-art website.

) December 10, 2008 -- Created with the legendary Mexican painter in mind, Frida restaurant in Riviera Nayarit debuts a new concept and menu this month with dishes that highlight the best of Mexico's regional cuisines adapted for contemporary tastes. The Riviera Nayarit restaurant pays homage to the famed artist's love of collecting recipes and enjoying the country's varied cuisines from Sonora and Veracruz to Oaxaca and Jalisco. The Riviera Nayarit restaurant's decor features murals with recipes that Frida made for her lover, the famed Diego Rivera, on the walls. Live guitar music is played nightly.