These days, a good website is almost as essential to a restaurant’s success as its kitchen. Local software developer Eddie Peloke is betting that iPhone applications are the next frontier for restaurant marketing. Peloke’s company Blue Shoe Mobile Solutions provides restaurant owners with tools to create and manage their own iPhone applications. They can then… Read more »
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Restaurants set the mood
If you’re reading this, it is almost too late for you. Valentine’s Day has hidden itself behind weeks of heavy snowfall and will make a seemingly surprise appearance this Sunday. For last-minute romantics, here is a sample of what Richmond restaurants are offering. For many restaurants, this weekend will mean business as usual, only more… Read more »
Restaurants forced to chomp away at prices
Five is the magic number. First it was the $5 footlong at Subway. Now T.G.I. Friday’s is going on the offensive with its own $5 meal. Starting Monday, Friday’s will offer all salads and sandwiches for $5 during the month of May. These days, restaurants are using cheaper prices as a tool to take a… Read more »
Two Short Pump restaurants close their doors
Two restaurants in Short Pump have closed their doors over the past week. The first, That’s BS: Burgers & Sports, which opened just a few months ago in the old Ham’s location at Broad and Springfield, couldn’t survive the recession. A sign posted on the front door this past weekend says it all: “That’s BS:… Read more »
Two restaurants close
It’s looking like two more Richmond restaurants have closed shop. One blog is reporting that Shockoe Bottom eatery Relish has closed after two years in operation. And the popular foodie blog in vino veritas has posted that that upscale Carytown restaurant Karsens is also closing. I went by last night and it wasn’t open, but… Read more »
Restaurants shedding jobs
According to a WSJ article in today’s paper, restaurants are shedding jobs as consumers cut back on eating out. It’s also lowering paychecks for waiters and waitresses. RBS is still analyzing recent restaurant tax information from the City of Richmond. We should have a story about the local restaurant industry soon. Today’s WSJ story cites… Read more »
New restaurants closing
At least two new restaurants have closed. Infuzion, a dance club/lounge in Scott’s Addition and Cirrus, an upscale restaurant/bar in the Fan have both closed. At least two new restaurants have closed.
Golden Corral spinoff Homeward Kitchen opening first Richmond-area outpost
It would be the new chain’s first location in Virginia, and second overall. Its initial location opened last winter in Golden Corral’s home state of North Carolina.
Dodson converting former Circuit arcade-bar into sports bar-card shop combo
Duke Dodson is preparing to open Parlay Bar & Lounge at 3117 W. Leigh St., where he’ll also relocate his Graybo’s Sports Cards retail shop from Grace Street.
Gayton Crossing sells for $22M, millions less than its last sale five years ago
The shopping center last sold in 2019 for $29 million. The latest sale did not include the anchor Kroger building or Wells Fargo outparcel.