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My Drinks Company Folded. But That Doesn’t Make It a Failure.

EATER

In 2008 I began bartending at Please Don’t Tell. I don’t know how many of you reading this have had the hopes and dreams you built up over years casually cast aside by a panel of strangers, but it f **g sucks. It wasn’t just me that was affected: In late 2019 I had hired a COO and a brand ambassador.

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New Lawsuit Argues Tipped Minimum Wage Violates Workers’ Civil Rights

EATER

In her new book One Fair Wage , she writes about how the practice “spread rapidly as employers in the hospitality sector hired newly freed slaves as servers, porters, and hosts across the country.” Do you think the casual dining industry. When that happened, tips shifted from being a bonus to replacing the wages of freed Black workers.

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How this top Brooklyn restaurant is able to pay teams more than industry average

7 Shifts

But if you rewind to 2009, 2008 when I started cooking, it was heavily glorified and still is in a lot of places, and was seen as the only really meaningful metric to measure your career by, in gastronomy and this obsession with the chef-celebrity, and the chef is God, an artist, and genius. There's a lot of problems with it.

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Your Pie Hires Lisa Dimson as First Marketing Chief

RGU

Your Pie announced the hire of Lisa Dimson as the brand’s first Chief Marketing Officer. An industry veteran, Dimson brings more than 15 years of restaurant marketing experience, plus a robust understanding of the fast-casual landscape, having held leadership positions with brands like Yum!

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How Restaurant CEO Priorities are Evolving in 2020

Aaron Allen & Associates

Foodservice has significant growth potential and is relatively “recession-proof” (after all, people will always eat), though increased saturation and ensuing consumer trends have resulted in plenty of companies — particularly casual dining operators — struggling. You May Also Find These Interesting … . January 12, 2019.

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RESTAURANT365® RECOGNIZES NEW CERTIFIED PARTNERS

Restaurant365

RRFMG”) was founded in Los Angeles in 2008 by two restaurant finance executives. The company has many single unit clients, all the way through hospitality concepts with over 60 units from all segments of the industry, including QSR, fast casual, upscale casual and fine dining. R&R FMG) – Platinum Certified Partner.

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Turning the Tide: The Inspiring Leadership of Geoff Alexander

The Restaurant Times

He worked his way up and gained valuable experience in menu development and restaurant design while working at Vong under Jean-Georges Vongerichten, eventually becoming the CEO of Wow Bao, a fast-casual Asian restaurant chain, w here he continued to apply his knowledge and experience in the hospitality industry.