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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

While you must follow the strict guidelines to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, that’s not to say you can’t take advantage of an empty restaurant to improve your knowledge of restaurant management, running a business, and creating a recipe for success when you eventually get back to business as usual. Published: 2009 ??

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Sprinkling Success: A Conversation with Dan Mesches

The Restaurant Times

Prior to Star, Dan was successful in various positions for respected restaurant groups, including Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, The Peasant Restaurant, the dinner house division of Marriott, and Gilbert/Robinson restaurants. He later attended the Masters of International Studies Program at the University of South Carolina.

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The History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future

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American travelers brought it back to the states as a way to feel aristocratic. Its founder, George Pullman, hired newly liberated Southern black men as porters and servers. When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. It's the expectation and an essential part of how restaurant workers earn a living.

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German Restaurants Are Expanding: 57 Concepts You Should Know

Apicbase

This vegetarian concept started out in 2005 in Berlin as a juice and smoothie bar. While Germany has long been considered a country offering many traditional dishes, there are now an increasing number of restaurants popping up that are bringing new flavours to the table. Eventually he remains with nothing, but he’s happier than ever.

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P.F. Chang’s To Go and Wing Squad Delivers

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features Boston Market, Danu Partners, P.F. Chang’s, Wing Squad, Yumpingo, Restaurant Revolution Technologies, Waitbusters, Dairy Queen, Fish City Grill, The National Restaurant Association and the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation and Keilhauer. New CEO at Boston Market. The plan is here.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Krystal Refranchising and Pieology in China

Modern Restaurant Management

Same menu, same location, just a new building – and you see how people really flock back to the brand. " Macaluso hired Cypress to insure a consistent and disciplined approach to the process. Das and Patel are the first new franchisees to join Krystal since 2005. Krystal Eyes Refranchising.

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MRM People & Places: Game On at Walk-On’s and Gingerbread Houses for Humanity

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's People & Places column features news of company hires and promotions, charitable efforts and product introductions. Baton Rouge’s very own Walk-On’s , is looking for more ways to give back. Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com.