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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

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By championing Enlightened Hospitality and hiring a team of 51 percenters, you’ll improve the customer experience and employee satisfaction—which will lead to more repeat business and reduced staff turnover. Topics: Leadership; time management; reducing overheads and staff turnaround. ?? Published: 2005 ?? Published: 2017 ??

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Under Allen’s leadership, this C-suite team has been instrumental in implementing a multi-faceted transformation plan designed to ensure long-term sustainability, enhance brand relevance, accelerate innovation, improve guest satisfaction, increase overall profitability and create a clear growth plan to propel the company forward.

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

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Former apprentices and employees say they faced working conditions they considered unsafe, while numerous former livestock employees describe what they view as unnecessary animal suffering within Stone Barns’ holistic land management system. The farm is run by Jack Algiere, who was hired as the center’s first employee in 2003.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

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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The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

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The one thing that all of these films have in common is that they depict food, dining, cooking, or eating in relatable, often visceral ways. Jaya Saxena Man Push Cart (2005) Sometimes food isn’t something that sparks passion or nostalgia or reminds you of the beauty of human creation.

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

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On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. When leadership began presenting these ideas to staff in 2019, a number of Stone Barns employees vocally disagreed with the new direction. Some came out crying.

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The Immense Human Cost of Keeping Thailand’s Palm Oil Flowing

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Since May 22, 2014, when Thailand’s democratically elected prime minister was arrested in a coup d’état and the National Council for Peace and Order, a military junta under the leadership of General Prayuth Chan-o-cha, seized power, inequality in Thailand has steadily worsened. In our system, all of the profit goes back to community members.