Archive for October, 2008



Where do we go from here?

I am at MUFSO 2008 in Washington DC. This is typically a very well attended conference for the restaurant industry. Because of the number of awards given out, this typically a large number of restaurant execs. But there are not a lot of people here.

Monkey waiters in Japan

Hard pressed to find good helping hands these days? Not bothered that these helping hands may not be human? Then you may want to try hiring the same workers as used by the owners of the Japanese tavern Kayabukiya. The local hangout just north of Tokyo employs a pair of Japanese monkeys called Yat-chan and [...]