Top Chef

How Businesses Can Forge (Much-Coveted) Brand Partnerships With Foursquare

Foursquare gets hundreds, if not thousands, of brand requests every week. Here's how to forge a partnership with the in-demand service, and to reach customers who might get lost amid all the noise on Facebook or Twitter. READ»

Top Chef Masters Finalist Traci Des Jardins Gives Us 5 Tips For Mastering The Restaurant Business

Restaurants are notoriously difficult businesses, and less than half make it past their third birthday. The handful of chefs who not only stay afloat but rise to the very top rely as much on business savvy as knife skills. Traci Des Jardins, a finalist in this season's Top Chef Masters and host of the 2011 James Beard Awards, tells Fast Company how to make it work. READ»

Tech Edge: Is Geolocation the Next Social Empire?

Everyone from Google to HBO thinks 2010 is the year we embrace geolocation and tell friends and marketers our every move. Farhad Manjoo locates the problem with that idea.READ»

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'Top Chef: Just Desserts': Can Cable Stand Another Cupcake Show?

When Fast Company listed non-chefs Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz among the most creative people in food, we praised them for producing Top Chef. Now, says Variety, they're getting their Just Desserts. The Top Chef spin-off, set to ...READ»