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The Corner Store & Café Redefining Convenience

Foodable

The Fast Casual Nation podcast offers exclusive interviews with experts ranging from top chefs and brand makers to executives and restaurateurs who work in one of the fastest-growing segments of the restaurant industry. Foxtrot is a tech-savvy chain of corner store cafes built for convenience.

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Sweetgreen Wants You to Do Sad Bowl Dinner Too

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This isn’t the first time Sweetgreen employees have spoken up against the company; in 2020, a former employee sued Sweetgreen , alleging sexual harassment and gender discrimination, and employees sued the company at least three times between 2014 and 2017, according to Inc. Instagram recipe developer Nasim Lahbichi partnered with Cava.

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How to write a restaurant business plan

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“The point of a business plan is to show that you’ve done your homework,” says Charles Bililies, owner of Souvla , a fine casual Greek restaurant in San Francisco that has received national acclaim since opening in the spring of 2014. Specify whether the restaurant will be fine dining or more casual. Credit: Getty Images 3.

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A Starter Kit for Your Vegetarian Cookbook Shelf

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that has stood the test of time, Mollie Katzen’s The Moosewood Cookbook — first self-published in 1974 by the cooks and staff of the namesake Ithaca, New York, restaurant and then fully revised and updated in 2014 — has the simultaneous charm and earnestness of a vegetarian cookbook published during the height of the hippie food movement.

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Loyalty Programs Driving Returning Customers

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The Fast Casual Nation Podcast offers exclusive interviews with experts ranging from top chefs and brand makers to executives and restaurateurs who work in one of the fastest-growing segments of the restaurant industry. The chain started franchising in 2014, and currently maintains 78 open stores.

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Restaurant Dress Codes Frequently Target Black Customers. It’s Past Time for Them to Go.

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While Commander’s Palace doesn’t specify long sleeves under its requirement of “collared shirts,” a golf shirt and chinos feels closer to casual than business attire. In 2014, he recalls going to a reggae night at the Eighteenth Street Lounge in Washington, D.C. “I Dudes with short-sleeved polos.” Twitter user Jared B.

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What Can Danny Meyer’s Hospitality Ethos Do For Panera Bread Workers?

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That means that Meyer will exert his influence on Panera Bread, a fast-casual restaurant with more than 2,000 locations and a ferocious fanbase for its broccoli and cheddar soup and generally “wholesome” on-the-go options. But in the context of a fast food restaurant, Meyer’s hospitality ethos feels a little murky.