Who would have imagined that bottles of ketchup and mustard, and salt and pepper shakers placed in the middle of a restaurant table would ever have been viewed as a good sign for the future of restaurants? After the crazy year that restaurants and bars around the...
By Julius C. Dorsey Jr. It felt good to go back to my hospitality “roots” during the stimulating dialogue on competitive strategy for restaurant success with the Cleveland Restaurant Alliance of the Ohio Restaurant Association yesterday. As those attending discovered,...
By Julius C. Dorsey Jr. Godiva is well-positioned to go head-to-head with Starbucks, but they’re also well-positioned to go around them to a unique and defensible “Godiva niche.” Godiva is already established as a premium chocolate maker with a...
By Dorsey & Company Associate and Guest Writer Mark Bogomolny This post-holiday season may find many families staying indoors, cutting back on spending and enjoying more meals in-home. Some of those meals may include trials of meal kits received as gifts or...
Restaurants and bars all over the country just closed out what was likely a profitable Cinco de Mayo weekend of serving margaritas, Corona and other colorful cocktails to revelers who may not have any cultural connection to the holiday, but who just enjoyed the good...
Like the physician’s oath, the first order is to do no harm (to your customers, business or brand) By Julius C. Dorsey Jr. Restaurants have been on my mind lately, as I just returned from the Ohio Restaurant Association’s annual Mid-America Restaurant Expo in Columbus...
