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Restaurant.com Helps Travelers to Discover Local Restaurants and Savings This Summer Travel Season Saving up for vacation is a familiar concept to most Americans, but how about saving while ON vacation? According the 2012 Restaurant.com Annual Dining Destinations and Deals survey, those who plan ahead now outnumber travelers who dine on the fly. In fact, [...]

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The Panera bread, 1736 W. Algonquin Rd. in Arlington Heights is closing Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Panera still has two other Arlington Heights locations — one in downtown Arlington Heights at 31 S. Evergreen Ave. and one at 5 W. Rand Road, just west of Arlington Heights Road. Another business with a longer-term lease is [...]

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As a precaution, Bob Chinns Crab House voluntarily closed Tuesday for an extensive cleanup after several people complained of stomach problems after eating at the restaurant last weekend. The Wheeling restaurant on Milwaukee Avenue is due to re-open today for lunch today. Health inspectors conducted an investigation. Test results to determine if the symptoms were [...]

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Harry McCollum, co-founder and co-owner of Harry’s of Arlington passed away Saturday morning. When Harry McCollum and his sons, Greg and Harry opened Harry’s in 1993 it was exactly 100 years after the building at the corner of Campbell Street and Vail Avenue had been built. The building has survived the building that housed the [...]

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Dear Paul B, I recently took Amie out on a date. I had been thinking about asking her out for a few months, and I finally had the courage to ask her. She seemed to be excited and we went to a restaurant where I had a coupon for buy one, get one free. Everything [...]

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Atlanta-based private equity firm Roark Capital Group reproted Monday that it has acquired Il Fornaio (America) Corp., which owns the Corner Bakery Cafe, which was founded by Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises in Chicago in 1991, and the upscale Italian Il Fornaio Restaurants & Bakeries business. Roark also purchased most of Arby’s chain for $130 million [...]

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A key Intelligence source has confirmed the threat of poisoning in the hospitality industry as “credible.” Department of Homeland Security officials, along with members of the Department of Agriculture and the FDA, have briefed a small group of corporate security officers from the hotel and restaurant industries about the possibility of poisons being used to [...]

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Arlington Heights police responded about 10:45 PM Friday to a report of theft of services at Olive Garden restaurant, 630 East Rand Road. Arlington Heights police received a report that three teens dined and ditched on a $77 dollar bill. The theft of services was reported to Arlington Heights with plate information — license plate [...]

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Associated Press reporter Ted Shaffrey tours a Subway sandwich restaurant that is continually hoisted to the top of the World Trade Center construction site as workers build new floors. The restaurant is in a cargo container at the top of a hydraulic lift, which takes about two hours to lift one floor level. Subway franchise [...]

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Combining fine art with fine cuisine, Pamela’s Parkside Grill, 27 W. Campbell St., Tuesday, July 6, 6:00 p.m., hosts its one-of-a-kind monthly “Gallery Dinner” where artists display and discuss their work with diners at each table during their four-course meal. Cost is $25 per person making reservations up to one week in advance, or $30 [...]

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View from inside Pamela’s Parkside Grill looking outside through the new expansive window openings that overlook Harmony Park. Pamela’s Parkside, 27 West Campbell Street is an exciting addition to the thriving restaurant and entertainment scene in downtown Arlington Heights, located at the former Regina’s Italian restaurant near Campbell Street and Vail Avenue. Pamela’s Parkside Grill [...]

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