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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

shows that consumers feel safer when hotels and restaurants raise their cleaning protocols to include hospital-grade disinfectants and third-party audits. Check clean through periodic on-demand training, auditing and verification that procedures have been followed. The average salary for a chef or head cook was $56,310 in 2019.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2001, Bill was promoted to Vice President of Operations overseeing TSFR’s 60 Burger King restaurants; in 2003 he was promoted to Executive Vice President of Operations, Training & Development and Human Resources; in 2006, Bill was promoted to Chief Operating Officer adding the Del Taco brand to his responsibilities.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

Before each of 10 courses, the staff explained the source or inspiration for everything that was served. It was served with accompaniments, one of which was an asparagus relish; at another table, the server was explaining how he’d seen the chef arranging the asparagus on her bread like dragon scales while testing out the recipe.