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Menu Redesign Avoids Confusion and Promotes Optimization

Modern Restaurant Management

The team said they spent four months on the process – One month to plan and implement design, three months testing and resetting based on guest and employee feedback at the corporate location. They used a combination of independent research, guest reviews, product mix sales reports, and employee and franchisee feedback.

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How Martha Moments Creator Andrew Ritchie Built a Martha Stewart Community

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My favorite October issue is from 2001. There’s a section for kids, of course, on how to DIY space costumes using everyday objects — an appropriate homage to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I had always had an interest in the home growing up, and read a number of design books as a kid.

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National Restaurant Association: We Need Help!

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3.483 billion in 2001 and 2002 appropriated via three different supplemental bills for assistance to Lower Manhattan and the State of New York. After 9/11, the CDBG-DR Business Recovery Grant program provided grants to businesses with fewer than 500 employees with compensation based on days of lost gross revenue.

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The Kikkoman Soy Sauce Bottle Is Priceless

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While the unchanging core design of the bottle has made it an enduring tool, the “face” has been reimagined over the years, with one-off specialty releases and collabs with fellow Japanese icons like Hello Kitty. during the Korean and Vietnam wars, Ekuan’s design presented the face of a modern and progressive Japan.

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The Great Birria Boom

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Angelenos first discovered birria de res during trips to Tijuana, as did I around 2001, when the menu at Tacos Aarón featured tacos de birria, birria de caldo, and quesabirrias (birria and melted cheese in a tortilla), along with more than a dozen tacos varios (the regional name for tacos de guisado).

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All the Kitchen’s a Stage

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No matter where you are, you can watch the kitchen action, which changes everything from how a line cook must approach their job to how designers create restaurant spaces. Barbara Lazaroff, Wolfgang Puck’s ex-wife and the co-founder of the Wolfgang Puck brand, told the LA Times in 2001. I had done theater sets.

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You Should Absolutely Age Your Own Wine. Here’s How to Do It

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The modern wine bottle as we know it today was developed in the 18th century in part to promote aging, designed to be laid on its side with a stout cork sealing out the oxygen. At one recent auction , a three-bottle collection of 2001 Domaine Romanée Conti sold for a cool $49,600.). What if I want to age wine myself?

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