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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

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Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. I saw their reservations go from 96% occupancy to zero. You can’t hire people back utilizing the PPP. NK: 80% of them were actually free reservations. You can do takeout.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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In 2008, on the tail of working her way around Chicago’s high-end kitchens and fronts of house — notably Alinea, the restaurant Achatz established in 2005 after leaving Trio; Schwa, a genre-breaking project from fellow Trio alum Michael Carlson; and the late Lettuce Entertain You high notes L2O and Tru — she began a pierogi-making business.

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Eric Rivera Is Playing the Game 

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On March 11, Rivera returned to Seattle and a calendar with reservations booked well into the next year. Addo used the Tock app for dinner reservations, but soon began using it to schedule carryout instead. In the late aughts, Rivera ran his own mortgage insurance and financial services business when the Great Recession hit.

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

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In 2008, it held the first-annual Young Farmers Conference, bringing together more than 170 early-career farmers to participate in networking events and two dozen educational workshops. These concerns began with ResourcED, which Blue Hill was hired to develop and execute by Stone Barns. vision,” Stone Barns said in a statement.