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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. After launching and then closing Proteau just three years after it hit the market, John deBary has come to realize that sales aren’t the only way to measure success Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about failure. My career in the beverage industry had an extremely auspicious start.

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How Coronavirus is Impacting Restaurants

Aaron Allen & Associates

March 18, 2020 NRA Recovery & Relief Proposal The National Restaurant Association presents a restaurants recovery and relief proposal to the White House with projections of more than $225b in sales losses and 5–7 million jobs lost. The company said it will continue to cover medical insurance premiums for employees through mid-April.

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How Coronavirus is Impacting Restaurants

Aaron Allen & Associates

March 18, 2020 NRA Recovery & Relief Proposal The National Restaurant Association presents a restaurants recovery and relief proposal to the White House with projections of more than $225b in sales losses and 5–7 million jobs lost. The company said it will continue to cover medical insurance premiums for employees through mid-April.

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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 The Chocolate Room created a chocolate culture for accelerating growth

The Restaurant Times

By 2008, we figured out that franchising was the way to scale The Chocolate Room brand. Realizing the huge potential of chocolate desserts in India, Vikas Punjabi voyaged from Australia to India in 2007 to launch the first-ever chocolate cafe brand, The Chocolate Room. In Conversation with Vikas Punjabi of The Chocolate Room .

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

EATER

I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago. Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. Nick Kokonas is an owner of both operations. Clair Supper Club. We have to do it.

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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.)