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Sprinkling Success: A Conversation with Dan Mesches

The Restaurant Times

This encounter sparked a love for the brand, which eventually led him to join the company, co-founded by Candace and Charles Nelson in 2005, as CEO and president in 2017. The keyword here is innovation. Mesches highlights the need to embrace change and innovation to stay relevant and meet evolving consumer preferences.

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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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MRM Franchise Feed: Krystal Refranchising and Pieology in China

Modern Restaurant Management

Das and Patel are the first new franchisees to join Krystal since 2005. Cypress will directly manage and coordinate all discussions and distribution of sale materials with potential buyers while maintaining a close, ongoing interaction with the Krystal leadership team. Pieology Looks to China. ” Coolgreens Turns 10.

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

EATER

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.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Jeremiah’s Opens 50th During 25th Anniversary, Wahlburgers Wild and Robotic Pizza

Modern Restaurant Management

. “Our development and operational teams have been hard at work for more than a year now, strengthening our franchise development strategies, planning and executing pivotal menu innovations and enhancing the capabilities and resources that go into the support we give to our franchisees. & Canada.

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Top-Rated Austin Restaurants to Check Out This Week

Restaurant Clicks

Located directly between the Zilker and Bouldin Creek neighborhoods of south Austin, Odd Duck is an innovative farm-to-table restaurant run by brothers Bryce and Dylan Gilmore. Suerte’s innovative and perfectly executed Mexican fare has won recognition from Bon Appetit , Food and Wine , and the Eater, to name a few. Make a Reservation.