Report from the Department of Inevitabilities: Michael McCarty, the 57-year-old owner of the eponymous New York City restaurant that feeds $36 Cobb salads to the expense-account-fortified media elite, is getting into the content generation business. This year, he launched a blog and a YouTube channel that airs, for instance, videos with the sommelier. Like any [...]
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Reflecting how serious the restaurant industry has become about the power of sites like Facebook and Twitter, McDonald’s and Starbucks both made announcements about plans to ramp up their social media presences. McDonald’s, said Tuesday it has hired Rick Wion as director of social media, a position that surely could not have existed even 10 [...]
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When the co-owner of a Capitol Hill bistro is out running errands or standing in a line somewhere, he uses his cellphone to get the word out about a half-price wine special he’s offering that night or to throw out a nugget of information about his native Italy. Likewise, when a downtown Seattle chef received [...]
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