You won’t have to look far for help if you think your restaurant has taken a financial hit due to British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon explosion. An entire specialty practice within the legal industry has sprung up overnight to help you get your share of the $20 billion compensation fund BP has put in escrow. Many restaurants have legitimate claims. Can collecting on them be as easy as the class action lawsuit wranglers make it out to be?

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Pestered by job-seeking chef wannabees? Got FOH employees eager to try their hand in your kitchen? Now you have someplace to send them: Gordon Ramsay’s new Fox reality series MasterChef, where amateur cooks compete in the hopes of going pro. The network honchos promise no yelling and screaming from the Hell’s Kitchen bad boy this time around. Do you believe them?

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As recently as six months ago, consumer concern about the economy put the kibosh on a lot of restaurant spending. But a just-released poll suggests that attitude has given way to more optimism—and looser wallets. And another study suggests that family-style restaurants are well-positioned to profit from this more positive outlook.

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