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Does It Get Better For the Indie Fine Dining Restaurant?

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Chef Russell Jackson opened the fine dining restaurant Reverence in Harlem just months before the pandemic began. Chefs Russell Jackson and Ian Boden struggled to reconcile their visions of fine dining with their communities’ desires. He let out a sigh, rubbing his hands over his face, dusty with five-o’clock shadow.

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By restaurateurs for restaurateurs: Advice for opening in 2020

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Are you opening a restaurant in 2020? As you plan out your concept, location, menu, staffing, and marketing, take a read through the advice left by hundreds of restaurateurs to ensure you’re set up for success in 2020. Keep in mind what everyone else is doing, walk the fine line between ground breaking and comfortability.

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Simple Restaurant Marketing Plan for 2020 [PDF Template]

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So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. There are only 4 months of 2020 left where you can push your restaurant’s marketing hard and set yourself up for success going into 2021. Whatever plans and forecasts you had for your restaurant are yesterday’s bread now.

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The State of New York Restaurants in 2020

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Data from Restaurant365 backs up our own findings, showing that the sales recovery of New York is trending below the average (with New York sales remaining 52% below pre-COVID levels, whereas the average is 22%). And restaurants also pose possible risks, concentrations of people inside [for] indoor dining. As the Head of U.S.

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How Restaurants are Evolving Labor with Third-Party Delivery in 2021

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The restaurant industry will look back on 2020 as the spark that changed how it does business. The COVID-19 pandemic left dining rooms empty and accelerated the industry’s shift to third-party delivery services as a major revenue driver. Nearly 900 delivery-related roles have been created in the 9 months since March 2020.

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September/October 2020 and Elections Legal Update

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The law also establishes a California Privacy Protection Agency, which will enforce and implement consumer privacy laws and can administer fines for businesses that violate California’s privacy laws. Florida Increases Minimum Wage : Over 60 percent of Florida voters approved Amendment 2 to increases the minimum wage. Litigation.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-October 2020 Edition

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restaurants are operating at less than 100 percent capacity in their dining rooms. For the restaurateurs who responded to our survey, only 15 percent said they were allowed to dine at full capacity, with nearly half saying they were allowed 50 percent capacity. Patio dining in colder weather. Restaurant Adaptation.

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