Food Photography Tips

Restaurant food photography is a great way to let your brand speak for itself. Engaging your audience with well-planned, appealing, vibrant, and focused food and menu photography is a vital component to reaching recurring guests, attracting new followers, and widening … read more

Dan Simons Out in Front, From Farm to Glass

Our very own, Dan Simons, recently sat down with Market Watch to speak to his journey, along with longtime business partner, Michael Vucurevich, from restaurant owner and operator, in partnership with the North Dakota Farmers Union, to distilling their own … read more

Road to Extraordinary: Dan Simons Speaks to OpenTable

Our very own Dan Simons recently sat down for a two-part series with OpenTable/Open for Business’s Winston Lord, co-founder of OpenTable’s revolutionary guest data and email marketing integration venture, Venga. On the table to discuss: Dan’s road to restaurant ownership, … read more

Dan Simons on OpenTable’s Foray into Delivery

Working closely with founder, Dan Simons, our teams know one thing: he loves himself some good data! Oh sure, he loves the people, our teams, our great work together (even our lessons learned), but he loves the data. Utilizing data… collecting it, … read more

Beer Here! Creating Your Bar’s Best Beer Program

Building a beer program that speaks to and fits within your brand, clientele, and food offerings, is a great way to enliven and add interest to your bar service. Guiding clients and generating beer bar ideas that fit within the individual … read more

Dan Simons is HUNGRY For More

Dan Simons knows good business. Our founder, and co-owner of Farmers Restaurant Group, recently announced an investment in an online marketplace for office catering that works to connect independent chefs looking to build their brands and businesses with office teams … read more

Outstanding Spaces: Inviting Bar Design

Designing a great bar for guests to gather around is essential to drive business to your beverage program. But, the art of great restaurant bar designs and designing great bar concepts can be elusive for some. Lucky for us, we … read more

Dan Simons Out in Front: Sustainability Across the Board

Our very own Dan Simons is out in front with sustainable restaurant, beverage, and hospitality industry news. Sustainable Spirits. Featured in GW Magazine, Dan and Beverage Director Jon Arroyo recently spoke about VSAG clients, Farmers Restaurant Group (FRG) and Founding Spirits … read more

Our Last Straw: Six Months Later

As we embark upon the six-month anniversary of Our Last Straw, the non-profit launched last summer by our very own Dan Simons and Farmers Restaurant Group to champion eliminating single-use plastic straws in the DC restaurant and hospitality industry, we wanted … read more

How to Successfully Scale Your Business

To build upon our recent news blog top lining, How to Expand Your Restaurant Business, we wanted to go a step further and offer clients our team’s proven best practices on what’s next. The art of successfully scaling your concept … read more