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...growth comes at a crucial time. Independent restaurateurs once had a tendency to view one another with suspicion. "Ten years ago, I wouldn't talk to fellow restaurateurs because I thought they'd steal my recipes," says Dine Originals president Don Luria. But hard knocks have turned indie rivals into sympathetic allies. Skyrocketing food, energy and health-care costs have cut into independents' bottom line, while national chains, from Applebee's to Morton's, have been expanding at every price level at the expense of the joint on the corner. According to the NPD Group, traffic share for major...
...Enter Luria, a co-owner of a Southwestern restaurant in Tucson, Ariz. He took over as president of Dine Originals in 2004 and has made it his second full-time job (unpaid at that) to help independent restaurants thrive. He travels at least once a week, cultivating new chapters. And so far, every city that has asked him to speak has become a member. "If independent restaurants were to disappear, then everywhere you go in this country would be the same," says Luria...
...Luria's innovation is to think of Dine Originals as one big chain--taken together, the 700 restaurants pull in about $1.4 billion in annual sales and represent $450 million in purchasing power--so its members get the clout and volume prices previously reserved for the big boys. Last month Luria signed a contract with Avendra, the top U.S. group-purchasing company in the restaurant-and-hotel sector, to get members lower prices on food and supply contracts as well as consulting advice on how to run their businesses more efficiently. The help may not reverse the chain-restaurant juggernaut...
...High,” one of the big Europop singles of last year. The standout “Isaac” was the cause of much criticism for Madonna because she was accused of singing about Kabbalah founder Isaac Ben Luria, which violates Jewish law. (She maintains that the title actually refers to guest vocalist Isaac Sinwany.) Regardless of to whom the song refers, it’s the only track on the record with a Kabbalist influence. Softly-strummed guitars, Hebrew chanting, and psychedelic humming, along with the prerequisite thumping bass, makes it the most distinctive song...
Well, not me, necessarily. We had a very strong department by then. I admit that I'd learned the practice from Sal Luria, my own adviser, of not putting my name on my student's papers. That means the students feel they're working for themselves, not for someone else. That might have influenced some of them...