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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

Topics: Hospitality; hiring and training staff; building workplace culture. ?? To achieve Enlightened Hospitality you need to hire “51 percenters with 5 core emotional skills.” While achieving Enlightened Hospitality may seem redundant while you only serve takeout, it should be a core value of your restaurant and hiring process.

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

7 Shifts

Its founder, George Pullman, hired newly liberated Southern black men as porters and servers. Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. According to Nina Martyris , a journalist who has covered tipping in America, tipping began to spread by rail—through the newly established Pullman Company —a luxury railcar service.

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A Fool’s Choice

EATER

If I remember correctly, I had heard from a friend of a friend that Margot was hiring but that she was, notably, “a battle?ax” I wandered into that restaurant in 2005, a few months after my daughter Maggie Donovan turned one and when the restaurant itself was just four years old — which is a strange thing to realize in retrospect.

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That KitchenAid Isn’t Just Blue

EATER

Other home design brands like Sherwin-Williams and Valspar followed with “color of the year” declarations; Benjamin Moore started releasing its own color of the year in 2005. Most of us don’t hire interior designers, nor are we regularly in the market for a new couch. In 2000, the institute named cerulean its first color of the year.

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How to Profitably Serve Cold & Sparkling Drinks in a Coffee Shop

Perfect Daily Grind

Health Survey for England data reveals that almost one in three people in England aged 16–25 doesn’t drink, compared to one in five in 2005. Cheap ingredients won’t compensate for having to hire an extra staff member to fulfil the same amount of orders. “If This is particularly true of younger consumers.

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How I Got My Job: From Bartending to Building a Drinks Company and Founding a Nonprofit

EATER

When I graduated college, I had a job investigating allegations of police misconduct for the city of New York from 2005 to 2007. We’ve also raised almost $2 million outside of the fund, so we’ve hired an executive director and we have a full-time staff person now, which is amazing because we were all volunteers until very recently.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Krystal Refranchising and Pieology in China

Modern Restaurant Management

" 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. ” Twin Peaks also hired a new director of franchise sales in August. We now want to bring this elevated experience to our customers across our footprint."

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