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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

Topics: Find dining; restaurant management; finding suppliers. ?? Anyone interested in fine dining (or audacious characters for that matter) will love Kitchen Confidential. Published: 2005 ?? These contrasting books that show there’s no right way to create a successful restaurant. But there certainly is a wrong way.

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How Andolini’s Uses 7shifts To Help Schedule With Empathy: Case Study

7 Shifts

Mike Bausch and his brother Jim opened their first location, Andolini's Pizzeria , in 2005, and have since expanded the business to include multiple locations of Andolini's as well as other restaurant concepts including pizzerias, slice shops, food trucks, and fine dining restaurants.

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Noma Named ‘World’s Best Restaurant’ — Again

EATER

The restaurant’s new Nordic, hyper-local cuisine made Copenhagen a global dining destination and served as a training ground for a number of notable chefs. Eleven Madison Park’s dining room. 1: 2005 Vital Intel : At the time the Fat Duck topped the list, it was unusual to appear for just a single year. Nick Solares/Eater.

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Eater’s Guide to the Canadian Rockies

EATER

Especially since the founding of local culinary festival Canmore Uncorked in 2014, chefs have shined a spotlight on regional dining, tempting travelers to pop over from nearby Calgary or Edmonton, or cross the reopened border from the U.S. European mountaineering guides also brought dishes from their homelands, like fondue.

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The Best Practice Awards 2025: Celebrating the Best Restaurant Brands in the Industry

Black Box Intelligence

Panda Express is the largest family-owned and operated Asian dining concept in the United States, renowned for its American Chinese cuisine. Eatn Park (Family Dining) Who is Eat’n Park? LongHorn Steakhouse (Casual Dining) Who is LongHorn Steakhouse? Panda Express (Fast Casual) Who is Panda Express? Why They Won?

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MRM Research Roundup: Catering, Kiosks, Tipping and Dry January

Modern Restaurant Management

Drinking outlets, particularly Sports Bars, thrived on NFL’s Big Game, while Fine Dining outlets emerged as the biggest winners on Valentine’s Day, experiencing the strongest trends vs average, with velocity up +144 percent vs the average Wednesday of 2024. In second place is Sushi Noz, also in New York.

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

EATER

Since Eater was founded in 2005, the world of restaurant desserts has changed dramatically, turning into a venue for wild experimentation. The composed little plate (CLP for short) was a staple of the dessert menus of the 2010s, a departure from the stodgy chocolate cakes and boring tiramisu at the upscale dining destinations of the ’90s.

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