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Unless you've been living under a rock, you may have noticedAmericans love to eat out. If you smell opportunity every time youpass a restaurant, consider a business in the restaurantaftermarket industry. Here are three ideas to chew on:
1. Interactive restaurant Web site
Paul Lightfoot, 30, appears to have concocted the perfect blendof technology and his passion for restaurants. In 1998, he andco-founder Bob Thomas, 30, came up with the idea for foodline.comas a way to leverage the Internet to make the interaction betweenrestaurants and their customers more efficient. To the consumer,foodline.com is an online restaurant guide where you can makereservations, but it also provides technology solutions torestaurants by giving them Web-based marketing tools and consumerdata.
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