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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: Opportunity is Barking and the Spirit of BBQ

Modern Restaurant Management

She started her career in private wealth management, serving as the Director of Client Relations for an investment advisory firm where she honed her skills for management of client relationships and true servant leadership. ” Wescott sees herself in a leadership support role, and it doesn’t go unnoticed by franchisees.

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MRM Franchise Feed: CPK’s Franchise Momentum and Rex’s Rebuilds

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Under Minardi’s leadership, CPK sees significant opportunities to add to the company’s presence in Asia with a focus on Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Malaysia. In 2007, it was purchased by David and Camille Rutkauskas. So, when we had the chance to purchase it in 2007, we jumped on the opportunity.”

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MRM Franchise Feed: Wing Zone Revitalization and Real Food BK

Modern Restaurant Management

Eight months after the acquisition by Capriotti’s, Wing Zone is rolling out a brand refresh which features technology upgrades, a revamped menu, an energized restaurant design and experience, a new logo and other assets designed to further position the brand as one of the undisputed leaders in the chicken wing category.

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How the James Beard Foundation Failed the Most Prestigious Restaurant Awards in the Country

EATER

A series of correspondences with members of foundation’s leadership, as well as conversations with others within the award process and restaurant industry, seem to confirm Wells’s reporting — namely, that the foundation tried to take a shortcut to virtue by manipulating the results of this year’s awards, and has been trying to cover it up.

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#MeToo, Still

EATER

I worked at the Friedman-owned Spotted Pig between 2006 and 2007, and at the Rusty Knot and the Breslin from 2008 to 2012.) In many circles, consumers have a much stronger sense of moral responsibility as to where they spend their money; in workplaces, habitual abusers can’t necessarily depend upon the silence of their employees.

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The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

EATER

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. Waitress belongs to a subgenre of movies that center diners and their employees, but few have used food as such an explicit means of self-expression, and, ultimately, self-actualization.

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