Design
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- Rebecca Kilbreath
Masaharu Morimoto, famed Japanese chef and star of Iron Chef and Iron Chef America, opened Morimoto Las Vegas in The District at MGM Grand. It’s the chef’s first restaurant in Las Vegas.
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- Toby Weber
Mom-and-pop restaurants put together on the fly and on a budget can easily end up with a design that’s all function and no form. As a result, the customer experience they offer can easily fall short. It’s not a recipe for success.
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- Rebecca Kilbreath
Restaurants often have to serve a mix of purposes and uses — from changing menus with changing dayparts to flexible lighting to fit the mood throughout a day — but in the case of the recently opened Third Coast inside the Texas Medical Center, the restaurant had to serve an unusual mix of needs at an unusual destination.
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- Rebecca Kilbreath
As the progenitor or the cupcake craze of the late 2000s, Sprinkles has outlasted the competition — fitting, since owner Candace Nelson serves as a judge on the series Cupcake Wars. Known for its rotating menu of cupcakes, ice cream and cookies, as well as its “cupcake ATM,” the chain has 22 locations in 10 states across the U.S.
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- Rebecca Kilbreath
OZU East Kitchen, located in Los Angeles’ Atwater Village neighborhood, is a fast-casual pan-Asian concept from new restaurateur Paul Yi.
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- Rebecca Kilbreath
Hiring and promotional news from across the restaurant development and design community includes new hires at Bombshells Restaurant & Bar, Smashburger and more.
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- The Editors
Brazilian steakhouse chain Fogo de Chão contracted New Orleans-based Eskew+Dumez+Ripple to bring local flair to its first Big Easy restaurant. Opened earlier this year, the new restaurant comes amid Fogo’s latest expansion plans, which included the opening of four other company stores last year.