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How The Chocolate Room created a chocolate culture for accelerating growth

The Restaurant Times

Vikas Punjabi – When I was planning to move back to India, I got the master franchise rights of The Chocolate Room for India. By 2008, we figured out that franchising was the way to scale The Chocolate Room brand. Ever since we have been franchising and right now have more than 395 stores across the country.

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The restaurant industry needs to step up for women. We asked four leaders how to do it.

7 Shifts

I have been serving plant based charcuterie since 2008.Broccoli When my friend was 22, she served at a steakhouse that mandated short dresses and heels. When she was 23, the manager asked her to put on makeup in one of her first shifts at a breakfast grill. She promptly quit. These accounts may not shock you. Remember me?I Broccoli Hot Dogs!Beet

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)