The New York State Restaurant Association and NYC Business solutions are hosting a course on how restaurant owners can keep ahead of the curve and continuously be successful in their operations. If you own a food enterprise and have had a successful run so far and would like to keep up the momentum then this course will be very beneficial. The topics will be presented by a legal firm that focuses mainly on the restaurant industry, Helbraun & Associates.

The class will focus on best practices, warning signs, what not to worry about, and will go over the top ten things that restaurant/bar owners should be aware of in order to continually grow their business in a controlled fashion. This knowledge is important as the food industry is known to be rapidly ever changing. The course will take place on Thursday October 2nd, from 3PM-5PM at NYC Business Solutions in the Brooklyn Center: 9 Bond Street, 5th Floor Brooklyn, New York.

To register online for the course or contact the NYSRA for any questions or clarifications, click here

New York Taste is a gastronomic gathering of experts in the New York restaurant scene that has been running since 1998. New York Taste is partnered with City Harvest, a food rescue charity dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women and children. City Harvest works by collecting excess food from different segments of the food industry and delivers via truck or bicycle free of charge to roughly 400 different community food programs throughout the city. New York Taste has partnered with City Harvest for this charity event in the past and this will be their sixteenth run together. The diverse menu at the event will be curated by culinary editor Gillian Duffy and promises an evening full of delicious food and drink tastings from over 40 different restaurants, chefs and mixologists.

The general tasting event will take place Monday, November 10th at the Waterfront building (269 11th Avenue) from 7PM-9PM, with a special preview for VIP ticket holders from 6PM-7PM. Tickets are open to attendees of 21 years or older and are only available for purchase through TicketWeb, here, for $108.88 for general admission. For an extra cost, VIP tickets are available which include the special preview hour, access to the VIP Lounge and an event gift bag.

Learn more about the event and the different restaurants, chefs and mixologists that will be attending here

Creekstone Farms and Michael Symon present Meatopia this October 19th, 2014 on Pier 92 on the Hudson River. Meatopia is produced in Partnership with The Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival presented by FOOD & WINE. For the first time in 10 years the event is being hosted in Manhattan as the big closing of the New York Wine & Food Festival. Founder Josh Ozersky looks forward to the event and states, “For our tenth birthday, the Festival and I have spared nothing in putting together a dream team of carnivorous cookery.”

Chefs at the event include Paul Qui from Austin who is making Tabasco and ginger philipino chicken. Aaron Franklin is returning to the event this year to cook a beef plate, and a better version of brisket. Michael White will be preparing quail spiedini.  Alex Lee, the New York Chef, will be preparing cream soda-brined short rib pastrami on house-baked rye (yum). Matt Lightner, turning away will be cooking  grilled chicken with an amazing Alabama white sauce. British chef Richard Turner will be making bone-on prime rib-eye steaks, and Puerto Rican chef Jose Enrique will be working on an Achiote flank steak. “John “Eff You” Tesar” will be doing a sous-vide lamb rack over red oak with kim chi and Sriracha butter.

These are the chefs that will be cooking inside the tent, however as you enter the event the first thing you will see are the whole animal preparations. Bryan Voltaggio will be doing a whole side of rose veal and Michael Psilakis will be doing lamb. Seamus Mullen will be doing Spanish chickens and Anthony Goncalves will be doing Iberian spiced whole hogs. The star of the show will be the 1000 lb whole Creekstone steer which will be prepared and cooked by the “meat king;’ Mr. Pat LaFrieda.

Tickets are available now for $150 here

100% of the net proceeds from the Festival benefit Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry and Food Bank For New York City

The Hospitality Industry Practice of CohnReznick, a business and financial consulting firm, is presenting a webinar series on mastering the business of operating a restaurant company. The series will  focus on the most important financial and operational issues for hospitality companies. The upcoming webinar events are listed below:

September 16: The Human Capital Challenge