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CHEFS – FAILURE IS NOT INEVITABLE

Culinary Cues

It seems that every time I check my email or flip through postings in social media – there is another restaurant, food business, or culinary school preparing to close their doors. Following the economic devastation of 2008 – restaurants hunkered down for months and then came back refreshed and charged up.

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Bubbakoo's acquired by private-equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners

Restaurant Business

The burrito chain was founded in 2008 in Wall Township, New Jersey, by Bill Hart and Paul Altero, who created a menu of traditional Mexican fare but with a twist. Thompson Street managing partner Bob Dunn described the 130-unit Bubbakoo’s as an “innovative and compelling brand that resonate with a broad and growing customer base.”

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The Guide to Success with Ghost Kitchens for Restaurant Owners

7 Shifts

Ghost kitchens emerged in the back half of the 2010s as delivery apps began to take hold of the dining market. And like the 2008 financial crisis showed us the necessity of food trucks , the pandemic brought ghost kitchens into the light and accelerated their growth. Testing a proven restaurant concept or idea in a new market.

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Why Cali BBQ is a Digital-First Restaurant

7 Shifts

We started our restaurant in 2008, during what is now known as The Great Recession. When we started our restaurant, marketing meant the Yellow Pages and billboards. Now marketing is Yelp and TikTok. What do you use for marketing? What about email or text marketing? calibbq Pork Ribs Loading… ??

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

These include marketing, website development, omnichannel payments and point-of-sale (POS) solutions. "We're “We will continue to create innovative products and further our go-to-market approach to ensure merchants nationwide have access to the tools they need to run their businesses. ” Tastewise Data.

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David Chang’s Memoir Fails to Account for the Trauma He Caused Me

EATER

I am definitely not the intended audience for Eat a Peach : In 2008, I was hired as the corporate beverage director for Chang’s young empire; I held this job for seven months before I was fired without explanation. Conflict was fuel, and Momofuku was a gas-guzzling SUV,” Chang writes. I love teams.”

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White Lily Flour Has Long Held a Near-Mythological Status in the South. Now It’s Everywhere.

EATER

The shipment of White Lily arrived at Red Apple Market just in time for Jill Lightner’s husband to replenish the flour stash that Lightner, a food writer , was quickly stress-baking her way through. White Lily’s true secret, according to a 2008 New York Times story , lies in its milling and bleaching processes.

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