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How Katie Button redesigned their wage model to adapt post-pandemic

7 Shifts

And I started as a server, so I started off working in the front of the house and learning, and they were the only ones who would give a PhD dropout with no previous experience a job. And we opened a Spanish tapas restaurant because my husband Felix is from Spain, and he's our front of house service guy and also idea man.

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The Butcher’s Son and the Pastry Chef’s Tech with Courtney Mitchell

SpotOn

Brian Radford, the owner and eponymous butcher’s son, first opened The Butcher’s Son back in 2015 to carry on his father’s philosophy towards quality food over everything else. Director of Operations Greg Alkire in front of The Butcher's Son. Courtney’s timing was perfect, as it turned out.

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HAGS Will Be Queer First, and a Restaurant Second

EATER

Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley are creating a blueprint for fine dining’s queer future with their upcoming New York City opening, HAGS The dining room at 163 First Avenue in New York’s East Village is barely big enough to fit two people standing side by side.

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Top 40 Restaurants in Portland

Restaurant Clicks

Whether you’re looking for food markets, coffee houses, bookstores, theater, or music, you’ll find the very best of home-grown creativity in Portland. Whether you’re looking for American, Mexican, Chinese, or anything in between, restaurants in Portland deliver authentic and innovative dining experiences and, of course, delicious food.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

EATER

Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ alluring story — that a fine dining restaurant could be a model for changing the world — seduced diners, would-be employees, and thought leaders alike. But former employees say that narrative often obscured a more complicated reality. This story contains a detailed account of a sexual assault.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

If courses were inspired by something exact, the servers mentioned its scene of origin: After Catelyn Stark arrests Tyrion Lannister at an inn, she dines on onions dripping in juices, and we got the same. Before each of 10 courses, the staff explained the source or inspiration for everything that was served.

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The School of Lil’ Deb’s Oasis

EATER

Carla Perez-Gallardo, who opened Lil’ Deb’s Oasis in 2015. The air of creativity and constant change at Lil’ Deb’s isn’t just a product of Perez-Gallardo’s vision, but of the waiters, managers, and cooks who have been attracted to the space since it opened in 2015. When I first came here, I was so used to fine dining kitchens.