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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

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distilleries – from less than 100 in 2005 to nearly 3,100 today, many of which now export. Along with those extraordinary steps, they compost pre-consumer and post-consumer food waste, purchase organic food products, use reusable products, and much more. Uncertain Outlook for 2025 Swonger stated that the outlook for 2025 U.S.

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

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The Lee Brian Schrager Excellence in Leadership Awards—created nine years ago by Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits in honor of Schrager’s leadership and dedication to the Chaplin School—recognize students who commit a tremendous amount of time to volunteering at the Festival each year. Megan Gunderson.

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

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Multiple former female employees also allege that the farm’s nearly all-male leadership created a sexist environment in the livestock program, culminating in a 2019 letter-writing campaign to Stone Barns leadership and the resignation of two employees in protest. Pseudonyms are denoted with asterisks.