Some systems can handle up to 10,000 individual pagers, much more than any restaurant should ever need!

The best restaurants of North Beach, on the other hand, need the neighborhood.

Some restaurants need to prepare dessert 20 minutes in advance.

A simpler restaurant doesn't need to accommodate so much equipment.

The restaurant at the far side of the courtyard didn't need any interior design help from me.

But a restaurant doesn't need its own history to dip into the past.

That done, the owners thought the restaurant needed a new identity.

The restaurant does not need a waiter or hostess to be on the phone to take the order.

To break even, the restaurant needs to bring in, she says, "5,000 smackeroos a week."

Most restaurants need at least two turns of the tables every night to begin to show profit.