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November/December 2020 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants Challenge Dining Bans : Restaurants across the country are challenging city, county, and state bans on indoor and outdoor dining due to COVID-19. For the most part, courts have upheld dining restrictions due to public safety concerns. The case Rimler v. Postmates Inc., The renewed agreement has a three-year term.

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The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

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And whether it’s as a vehicle for Chaplin’s absurdist physical comedy, or it’s offering romantic depictions of Italian cuisine in Goodfellas and Big Night , or it’s the way the The Menu uses visceral horror and biting satire to critique the extravagance of luxury dining culture, food plays a crucial role in making the movies we love feel real.

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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. The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, a nonprofit regenerative farm and educational center, opened in 2004 on the site of a former dairy farm.

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Introducing Chef Mark Duesler!

Sustainability Beyond the Plate

Duesler is a professionally trained chef who has worked in multiple full-service kitchens from small, family-owned restaurants and multi-course, fine dining establishments to chef-driven farm-to-table concepts. Mark debuted his culinary acumen at the FSTC’s Greener Restaurants: The Power of Green seminar on December 7th.

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Seattle Pizzerias You Need to Visit Today

Restaurant Clicks

You can bet that Seattle’s west coast bounty of fresh fish and produce underlies a food scene that is equally as fresh, and when combined with Seattle’s unique creativity, makes for a fun, new, and exciting dining experience. Seattle pizza restaurants aptly portray the alternative and innovative spirit of this west coast gem.

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

EATER

The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture opened in 2004 on 80 acres of rolling hills and verdant forest that were once part of the extensive Rockefeller family holdings in the hamlet of Pocantico Hills, New York. The Center has had strong female leadership throughout its history. Cole Wilson/Bloomberg via Getty Images.