Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

million over the next five years to build and sustain the program. QDOBA Mexican Eats® introduced new restaurant formats, top photo, that feature buildouts including mobile-order drive-thrus, walk-up windows, mobile-order pick-up lockers, dedicated curbside pick-up areas, ghost kitchens, and concepts with updated outdoor seating.

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 25, 2022

In an exclusive conversation with The Restaurant Times, Vikas Punjabi, MD, and Co-founder, of The Chocolate Room shares insights from his entrepreneurial journey about how to sustain and grow in a competitive market, and the role of menu engineering, consistency, and people strategy in creating a successful brand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We’re also likely to see a spike in the demand for data analysts in the back office, those who can help make sense of all the new data coming in from various digital channels. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their opinions on what we can expect in 2021. Here are their responses.

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Single Platform

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Time-travel back to 2008 for a moment. Between 2007 and 2008, the global financial crisis hit hard and was compared by multiple economists to the Great Depression of the 1930s. A CNN Money report from mid 2008 noted that casual dining chains were taking a major hit as people turned to cheaper food alternatives.

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EATER

AUGUST 22, 2022

Before each of 10 courses, the staff explained the source or inspiration for everything that was served. These citations were delivered in the same breath as the ingredient sources: This cheese is from Indiana, and that amuse-bouche draws on a description of tables laid with strawberries and sweetgrass.

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Single Platform

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Time-travel back to 2008 for a moment. Between 2007 and 2008, the global financial crisis hit hard and was compared by multiple economists to the Great Depression of the 1930s. A CNN Money report from mid 2008 noted that casual dining chains were taking a major hit as people turned to cheaper food alternatives.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

“Over the last century, women, despite their incredible contributions, have struggled to make it in professional kitchens — held back by inequalities unfairly put upon them,” said Rob Sundy, Head of Brand Marketing & Creative Studios at Whirlpool Corporation, the parent company of the KitchenAid brand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. Rick Camac, Dean of Restaurant & Hospitality Management at the Institute of Culinary Education. Food Halls – the numbers for current and future growth are substantial.

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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

At stake was how one of the most influential food and agricultural nonprofits in the country would use its formidable resources — more than $100 million in assets, the backing of the Rockefeller family, and an enormous public profile — to create a better food system. Some came out crying. Of an office team of 17, six were laid off.

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EATER

APRIL 11, 2023

At Lapaʻau Farms in upcountry Maui, Michael and Lauren Marchand harvested and sold 600 pounds of organic oyster mushrooms in early March. Yang smiles as he shows off his heaping compost pile: He says he reclaims three to five tons of organic green waste every few weeks to produce substrate, the woody equivalent of soil, for his mushrooms.

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EATER

AUGUST 3, 2021

A resident of Klong Sai Pattana amidst the palm tree fields in southern Thailand. The global thirst for palm oil has never been more ravenous. Caught between it and a multigenerational war on Thailand’s poor are the farmers of the Southern Peasants’ Federation, who simply want a piece of land to call their own. Around 6 p.m.

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