Good analysis and ideas presented re: the restaurant industry. Now when is the next article about new restaurants OUTSIDE of downtown?

Nose to tail?? Ummm, bizarre-o but thanx for the info, now I know there are options besides Mkt St and Olive Garden!

Reduce your prices.

No, don't reduce prices. Not to say that you have to gowge people, either but intelligent diners know that quality costs. If all of us wanted only bargain basement food,Micky-D would be the only game in town.

Maybe you could create a laptop computer menu. That way you won't spend as much money changing the prices on your menu. You just change the price on the server and the price gets changed on all the laptop menu's. This way you can change your prices two or three times a night.

To quote someone: you just blew my mind. I'm glad new and unique places are thriving in Salt Lake City. I'm really hungry now.

This all sounds pretty fun to me. I wish I could print out a list of these places with address & phone #s. Yesterday, I took my husband to 5 Guys to try the place, it was full of fat people and no wonder, the regular order of fries could feed 5 people. So, a word to the wise -reduce your portions and stay away from the feeding frenzy joints.
Who wants to eat outside in SLC, dirty air, dirty tables, clueless eating joints that don't know how to create atmosphere.

Reduce your prices and you will attract more customers. Also, reduce your portions and downsize your menu and you will probably be making more money than ever before. There is no need to shove two pounds of food on a plate and no reason to have 100 items to choose from on a menu.

To anonymous who wishes for a print out of the places with address & phone numbers: We anticipated that, and if you look through the story carefully, you'll see that the addresses, phone numbers and Web sites of all these places are listed. - Valerie Phillips, food editor

For including the phone numbers & addresses. Article wasn't real detailed on each menu but I guess we can check those websights. thanx again for a useful article for locavores & others who want to support sustainable ag. There are, indeed better options out there than the Cheesecake Factory and Applebeez.

All of a sudden Utah wakes up to discover local food and the fashionable spots that serve it, such as Pago and Caputo's Tipica... Amazingly enough, Mr. DeBonis, owner of my favourite place in town, the Paris Bistro in Sugarhouse has been serving local/organic products since the inception of the Olive Barrel his first restaurant, opened in Deer Valley in 1991, back in a time when Mr. Matt Caputo and Mr. Evans were still in middle school and had never even heard of foods such as the ones they accommodate in such a lackluster way. Curiously enough however, The Paris Bistro never gets mentioned in your newspaper, and Mr. DeBonis, a true pioneer of Fresh, local and sustainable food in Utah never gets the credit he is so rightfully owed... Wake up people!!! truth be told, the vast majority of Utahns have no food culture whatsoever and graze at fast food and chain restaurants... The rest of them, who claim to be locavores are nothing but clueless fashionistas with no sense of taste.... a very lucky few actually understand food... Matt Caputo and Scott Evans are unfortunately NOT part of that narrow circle and never will be.

Wiseguys is an awful place to go. Poor service, average food, same old jokes. Look elsewhere for a fun time.