You could stick with the standard application-and-interview routine when you’re hiring new employees for your restaurant. But why not get creative and find out much, much more about what job seekers are really like by checking out their Facebook page or following them on Twitter? It turns out that social media sites have a lot to offer as personnel screening devices. Why not take advantage of them?

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Remember the big buzz over nutraceuticals—foods that deliver health benefits, have anti-aging properties and can even help with weight loss? They do at Palmdale, CA-based RedBrick Pizza, a fast casual pizza chain that now adds antioxidant-laden acai berries to its whole wheat, multigrain pizza crust. If you want to give your restaurant a healthful halo in a hurry, a supplement strategy like this one might be the way to go.

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Now we know which company had the least-effective ad on the 2010 Super Bowl broadcast. It was Denny’s free breakfast spot, which so enraged some of the company’s largest stockholders that they’ve formed a “Committee to Enhance Denny’s” to put heat on the executives who approved it and who otherwise oversee what the stockholders say is an underperforming chain.

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