Simon Kim knows exactly how many beats per minute are in each song played in his restaurants. During dinner service’s peak — around 10:30 p.m. at Cote, a Korean steakhouse in Manhattan, and 9: ...

Should restaurants have to comp desserts or drinks and sing a song when keeping a restaurant afloat is difficult enough as is? The celebratory birthday dinner feels most tied to chain restaurants, ...

“Alice was a lifelong friend,” said folksinger Arlo Guthrie of Ms. Brock, a former restaurateur who prepared the 1965 Thanksgiving dinner that was the jumping off point for his famous song ...