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4 Ways to Pivot Your Restaurant’s Business Model During COVID-19

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The meal kit industry, which has been around since 2007, hit $5 billion in annual revenue in 2019—but growth in the industry was slow pre-COVID-19. Offer meal kits ?? If you have many groceries, inventory, or portioned goods, consider offering meal kits to diners to cook at home.

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Eight Ways Restaurants Can Prepare for a New Normal 

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How restaurants are laid out, in terms of flow and concentration of seating, will be key sensitivities to address. It will be important to balance the table-turns required to return to profit while acknowledging lingering desires for physical distancing. Mixt Greens Yerba Buena ©Eric Rorer.

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Top 15 Restaurants with Private Dining Rooms in Memphis

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The rooms are perfect for business meetings, seated dinners, or cocktail receptions. In 1987, Café Society opened in Memphis, and in 2007, Café Society welcomed new owner, Chef Cullen Kent, who studied the culinary arts in Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. The private dining rooms offer a seat for parties of two to twelve people.

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The Best Mexican Restaurants in Washington DC

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Celebrity Chef and Humanitarian José Andrés opened Oyamel in 2007, and it has been a favorite Mexican restaurant in the D.C. A casual Mexican restaurant, seating is limited in their Del Ray location, though more spacious in their Arlington locations. Oyamel is a top Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C. area ever since.

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The Greatest Restaurants Nashville Has To Offer

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City House has become known for its pizzas since they opened back in 2007. The Catbird Seat. View this post on Instagram A post shared by the catbird seat (@the_catbirdseat). Named after a famous story from 1942 by James Thurber, The Catbird Seat is perennially one of the hottest restaurants in Nashville.

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After Two ‘100-Year Floods’ in Just a Dozen Years, Vermont Restaurants Look to Rebuild Stronger

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The 14-year-old restaurant had reopened July 3 with a brand-new bar, upwards of 20 additional seats, and more kitchen and storage space. Deng arrived in Vermont in 2007 as a refugee from what is now South Sudan and works with hundreds of clients who are immigrants in his capacity as a tax professional and business consultant.

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Park Slope Restaurants You Have to Try

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There is a cozy outdoor patio, streetside seating, and a rustic interior making for an inviting and comfortable environment as colorful as their delicious dishes. La Villa Pizzeria is a massive 100-seat restaurant and beer garden with an open kitchen and custom-built wood-fired ovens.