Site name: News search engines/sources URL: Google—www.google.com; Bing—www.bing.com; Yahoo!—www.yahoo.com Background information: All the major search engines have a “News” tab that can be selected to search thousands of news sources worldwide on any topic entered by the user. Newspapers.com is a directory of all the newspapers in the United States regardless of size. On that site, you can search for a newspaper by title, state, or city.

Exercises: Choose a topic such as food safety, food sanitation, alcohol abuse, alcohol and restaurants, happy hours, menu legislation, Center for Science in the Public Interest, or a topic assigned by the instructor. Using a news search engine or a newspaper from your hometown, search for current news on a topic. If you use a news search engine, be careful to select only news from the country in which you are studying. Lead a class discussion on the news item to include the following:

a. Describe the impact this news item has on the restaurant/food service industry.

b. Indicate why this news is relevant to managers in the restaurant/food service industry.

c. If you were a restaurant manager, how would your behavior change as a result of having this information? What would you do differently?

d. Discuss what future changes you believe might occur in the restaurant/food service industry as a result of this news.