Want to inject some instant energy into your operation? Check out John Daly Pizza, a business-within-a-business proposition that pairs the celebrity power of its namesake owner with a turnkey pizza program that comes complete with all the necessary ingredients, equipment and marketing collateral. Daly used to be the baddest of the bad boys on the PGA Tour, but since the Tiger Woods revelations, consider his reputation restored.

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The current pass-fail system of communicating a restaurant’s health inspection results—pass and you stay open, fail and the city shuts you down—seems to work just fine. No matter, New York City is switching to a letter-grading system, and operators there are raising a ruckus. It’s great if a place can proudly display a big A sanitary inspection grade on its front window, but if it gets a B or a C…who’s going to eat there? Would you?

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We're not all the way out of the woods yet, but it's looking like the U.S economy has stabilized and that prospective patrons are ready to resume at least some of their restaurant-going habits of old. Here are eight ways the National Restaurant Association says full-service restaurants can boost sales in the year ahead:

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