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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

As Modern Restaurant Management Restaurant (MRM) magazine celebrates its fifth anniversary this month, we reached out to industry insiders to garner their insights on what issues have impacted the industry over the last five years and what issues they feel will impact restaurants in the years to come.

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5 Best Restaurant Tip Pooling Solutions Compared

Cheetah

With a Covid-induced labor crisis in the background, many restaurants explored methods like ‘no tipping’ and ‘auto-gratuity’ in an attempt to battle the crisis and create a better working environment for restaurant staff. For restaurant owners, digital tip pooling saves valuable time. Toast - Tipping within Your POS.

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5 Best Digital Tip Pooling Solutions Compared

Cheetah

With a Covid-induced labor crisis in the background, many restaurants explored methods like ‘no tipping’ and ‘auto-gratuity’ in an attempt to battle the crisis and create a better working environment for restaurant staff. For restaurant owners, digital tip pooling saves valuable time. Toast - Tipping within Your POS.

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New Lawsuit Argues Tipped Minimum Wage Violates Workers’ Civil Rights

EATER

As a young, lighter-skinned Black woman of mixed heritage, Melton says she was often assigned by her managers to the busiest, most front-facing sections of the restaurant along with her white and young coworkers. If the appeal is denied, “then Darden has written itself out of federal law, basically,” said Harrow.

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

7 Shifts

The internet holds countless stories of inappropriate behavior that female restaurant workers have endured. Women-owned restaurants often have their accomplishments overlooked. I have been serving plant based charcuterie since 2008.Broccoli Women fill more than half of restaurant positions in the U.S. She promptly quit.

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#MeToo, Still

EATER

Allison Vu /Eater Five years after I went public with my #MeToo experiences in the restaurant industry, has anything really changed? I worked at the Friedman-owned Spotted Pig between 2006 and 2007, and at the Rusty Knot and the Breslin from 2008 to 2012.)

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

EATER

Nick Kokonas explains his businesses’ pivots on Eater’s Digest As restaurants around the country furlough or lay off their workers or permanently close, Chicago’s high-end tasting menu destination Alinea is bringing in record revenue and has brought back its staff. Aviary is a high end lounge, and Next is like a morphing restaurant.