Kitchen Confidential.(a looking at the restaurant trade periodical category)(Industry Overview)

Byline: ANTHONY DERICO

In the leaner, meaner - much meaner - world of business-to-business media, layoffs, closings, consolidations, and bankruptcies have left publishing companies clawing to keep their titles afloat. Just ask the folks in the food mags.

Titles catering to the restaurant trade have seen publishers come and go faster than they could say, "chicken cacciatore." In the last six months Penton's Restaurant Hospitality poached publisher Jess Grossberg from VNU's Restaurant Business; Brian Langille left Reed Business Information's Restaurants & Ins