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The Guide to Success with Ghost Kitchens for Restaurant Owners

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A ghost kitchen (also known as a delivery-only restaurant, cloud kitchen, or dark kitchen) is a restaurant that is solely focused on cooking to-go meals. One ghost kitchen may contain multiple units where different brands can prepare food for delivery, and in some cases, pickup. What are the benefits of a ghost kitchen model?

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Restaurants Surviving & Adapting in the Pandemic: Motorino

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After opening in 2008, Motorino has gone from one location in Brooklyn serving the best pizza in the city to well over a dozen storefronts across New York City, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, and beyond. I feel blessed that Motorino has such a big delivery business. I would not be here talking to you if it wasn’t for delivery.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

Businesses pivoted their operations with technological tools such as contactless payments, delivery platforms, and kitchen assisting robots to battle these challenges. The delivery market is highly competitive – and the balance of power between delivery services and restaurants is increasingly shifting.

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Unpeeling the Layers: How Do Food Banks Actually Work?

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I made a note to check into regular food deliveries from a local service. Then, in 1979, a federally-funded development effort consolidated the food bank recipients into an association called Americas Second Harvest (which changed its name to Feeding America in 2008). million people. The USDA announced that $1.13

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Unprecedented Effects: How the Hospitality Industry Will Recover

Modern Restaurant Management

Moreover, many states and/or counties are under “stay at home” orders where hotels are shut down and restaurants are only permitted to offer take-out or delivery to their patrons. Regardless of size, restaurants, if operating at all, are offering incentives and discounts on take-away/delivery orders.

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Why Caracas Arepa Bar’s House Salsa Is a Condiment All-Star

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I first encountered the gleaming, yellowish-green sauce in 2008. But it wasn’t until several years after my first visit that I took home a bottle of my own, from the more expansive Williamsburg outpost that Caracas opened in 2008 (the restaurant also had a location on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk until last fall).

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

To support and empower food brands, manufacturers, restaurants, and other industry stakeholders in the UK, Tastewise has accelerated growth, adding localized data of 183K restaurants and delivery menus, over 2.8B She founded Virtus Wines International in 2008, dba Wheelhouse Libations, and The SIP Agency. social interactions, and 1.2M

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