Metro Detroit is on track to open nearly three dozen new restaurants in 2012. Why so many in an economy that's struggling. Well, cheap real estate is part of the answer.
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"On top of that, he's confident in his restaurants' ability to succeed because, he said, he's giving people what they want: a nice restaurant with good food that isn't too expensive.
"It's not going to cost you $100 for two people to go out for dinner," he said. "We're not getting into fine dining because frankly there is no market for it."
Prentice isn't the only restaurateur adding to his stable of casual-upscale businesses."
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