News Summary

• The National Restaurant Association says 87 million adults went to a restaurant for a Mother's Day meal last year.
• A high-traffic service on Mother’s Day can be a real boost to a bottom line.
• Watch for the ways, both subtle and overt, that wait staff encourage you to drink up, eat up and get the hell away from their stations.
• “Do you really want to sit with your mother for 90 minutes at the bar?” asked Sandy Davis, a longtime chef at Cowgirl Cowgirl.