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Experience Is the Best Teacher: Five Things My Father — and Hard Times — Have Taught Me About Leadership in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Here are five I’ve come back to again and again. He opened the first Ruth’s Chris franchise in 1975 and became one of the company’s largest U.S. franchisees. Never Take Advantage of the Guest. At Finally Restaurant Group, we take pride in becoming part of the community in exceptional small towns across the country.

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The Great Birria Boom

EATER

How two Mexican-American birrieros made the beloved dish a sensation in America In 2005, two Mexican-American teenagers from LA met at the fair in Coatzingo, Puebla, during Semana Santa, or Holy Week, a time when countless Mexican-American families head back to their family’s hometowns all over Mexico to visit relatives.

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A Taste Of The Douro With Quinta Do Crasto

Sante

The earliest written records mentioning Quinta do Crasto and its wine production date back to 1615. And in 2001, UNESCO sanctioned the Douro region as a World Heritage site. He was famous for his wine house dedicated to the production of port. Teaser: Exploring a few wines in the Douro wine region of Portugal.

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The Best Salad Chains In America

Restaurant Clicks

Chopt was founded in 2001 and has been serving the freshest, and spiciest, salads since its opening. I’m a big fan of salad. And when I want a good salad, I make sure I’m somewhere in the U.S. America has some of the best salad chains for several reasons. Best Salad Chains in America. Sweetgreen. choptsalad). Fresh & Co.

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‘Martha Stewart’s Christmas’ Was a Book, a Fantasia, and a Target

EATER

What can you say about a woman who makes not a gingerbread house but a gingerbread mansion?” It’s entirely logical that as more women have less time to do anything around the house, Martha Stewart and her fellow sisters in sadism would become the nation’s household gurus,” complained the Salt Lake Tribune.

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A Fool’s Choice

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Donovan’s first job at McCormack’s Margot Café is a far cry from her time at her first steady restaurant job at TradeWinds, a “22-­seat Italian cigar den housed in a double-­wide trailer on a dirt hillside corner” in Valparaiso, Florida. Lisa Donovan | Photo courtesy of Lisa Donovan. Monica Burton. ax” and “a straight?up

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Where to Get Brunch in New York City

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& Restaurant Buvette New York Shuka Sotto 13 The Dutch NORMA’S Hudson Clearwater Penelope NYC Root & Bone Hearth Restaurant Vinegar Hill House Victor’s Cafe BLACKBARN Restaurant Lido Harlem Restaurant B&H Dairy Chez Ma Tante Cookshop Peaches Russ & Daughters Café Egg Shop. For me, it’s the culture. Baking Co. &