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What Are Crytpo Restaurants Serving Up?

Modern Restaurant Management

Cryptocurrency has real-world applications in the food industry, with restaurants using it to create new and exciting foods for their customers and find ways to use crypto as payments. Quiznos teamed up with digital asset provider Bakkt to allow customers to pay in Bitcoin. Enhancing customer experience. Camboflare.

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

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Most customers don't think twice about leaving a few dollars on the table or selecting a percentage on a tablet. Tipping in Europe was born in the middle ages, a master-serf custom where servants would receive an extra gratuity for excellent performance. Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005.

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Raw and Ready: Growing a Healthy Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2005, I stopped doing that and started working on building a private equity fund focused on emerging brands in the European fashion design industry. I had no experience in the restaurant business prior to coming to South Florida. It has been a great response from our customer base. But I’m a global citizen.

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Sichuan Peppercorns Are Hot Enough for McDonald’s

EATER

The spice was illegal to import until 2005 , as there was worry a disease it was known to carry could threaten American citrus plants. Instead of evoking something new or familiar, depending on the customer, it could just be, like vanilla, there. As a result, Sichuan cuisine exploded in the U.S.

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Reinventing a Global Beverage Brand: Chatime Evolves in a Fast-Growing Market

Restaurant Business

The brand refresh reflects the vibrant, youthful spirit of the company in a way that speaks to evolving consumer tastes and preferences – and appeals to Gen Z consumers around the world who represent the brand’s fastest-growing customer base. Together, all brand elements work to create deeper, more emotional connections with customers.

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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

That’s why we’ve selected 3 books that focus on people—customers and staff. Setting the Table focuses on Meyer’s philosophy of Enlightened Hospitality , which revolves around relationships and respect—between both staff and customers. Improving these relationships is a surefire way to improve your restaurant’s service and bottom line.

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THE KITCHEN MAGIC OF CHEF PHIL LEARNED

Culinary Cues

This ritual was so important to the Balsam’s Experience. He served as Executive Chef (the first chef to be certified at that level in the State of New Hampshire) until 1977 when he became the Director of Food Services where he stayed until 2005. The Balsams was one of the premier formal cook’s apprenticeship sites in the country.