Here is how the business works. Assume that a busy 50-seat restaurant would use 200 paper placemats each day or approximately 6,000 per month, and the cost to print 6,000 black and white placemats ...

Our list of favorites includes round, woven, and linen picks for every style and budget. Rochelle Bilow is a commerce editor, food writer, and novelist. A graduate of the French Culinary Institute ...

Don't remove all the adhesive at once, but peel it off slowly as you smooth down the paper over the bottom of the drawer. Use ...

Read more here. Whether woven with rattan or ramie, accentuated by scallops or stripes, or plain and simple, place mats do much more than just protect your table against heat, cold, and food ...

In a dark restaurant in Los Angeles paper place mats are decorated with maps of Ethiopia. Shiny red-vinyl booths are filled with brightly dressed residents of the local immigrant community. Original ...

The table is the center of it all on Thanksgiving, so have fun sitting around it before, during, and after the holiday dinner.

For the latter, a high-gloss finish is applied to each plate, giving them a glittering emphasis against the satin paper ...

If two hours in beefy reverie sounds like a great way to spend an afternoon, you’d better head to Dario Cecchini’s butcher ...

Even if you've never made a pie, much less a lattice, I swear you can do it. It's basically the same technique we all picked ...

“Some were written on the back of paper placemats.” Elaine Najarian of Farmington got the church ladies “going on making pies ...

Many are calling on classic autumnal hues. One woman wrote that she’ll be decorating with “Fall colors. As always.” Another ...