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...lowly sales assistant at the now defunct Holiday magazine. She moved fast from the start, sometimes too fast for her own good. She once left her résumé on a copy machine at work, where it was found by a senior executive at Curtis Publishing Co., Holiday's owner. Oops. She learned to ease up on what she thought was her firm handshake after a male colleague snapped, "Cathie, you don't need to break my hand...
...price for its Tour, which comprises more than 20 courses, reservations just continued going up. "You would think that increasing the Tour from $175 to $195 would have an effect on demand, but the overall percentage of Tours we sell on any given night has increased steadily," says co-owner Nick Kokonas. In fact, the restaurant wound up dropping its comparatively cheap $85 prix fixe meal, since no one was ordering...
...Colicchio, a judge on Bravo's Top Chef and the owner of the Craft restaurants in New York City and Los Angeles, says food costs still make up 28% to 32% of an entrée's price--only now that means some of his entrées are $50. "The high-end restaurants are looking for stuff made by the small farmer, and this stuff just costs more money," he says. "If you have a small farmer that makes 40 chickens a week, it's going to cost more than a factory farm that's making 4,000 chickens a week...
...Lifetime of Secrets.†PostSecret encourages people to anonymously submit postcards containing secrets they have never told anyone. Although it made its global debut on the Internet, Warren said that PostSecret began three years ago as local community art project. Warren, then a small business owner from Germantown, Md., passed out 3000 blank postcards in the Washington, DC area, all with his address on them. “Slowly secrets began finding their way to my mailbox,†Warren said. He posted them at an exhibition soon afterward. Among the first secrets displayed was a postcard...
...have a certain amount of sympathy for a new owner who has abided by all of the requirements of the city to be in a position of having over $800,000 at risk,†he said, referring to the $850,000 cost of the parcel to Stonehouse Holdings...