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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. My COO stayed on, unpaid but on the company’s health insurance plan for another year, while we had to let the brand ambassador go in the middle of the summer of 2020. My career in the beverage industry had an extremely auspicious start. I never secured additional funding.

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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. Therefore, we started franchising towards the end of 2008. . We also provide added benefits like medical insurance. . We got a few menu consultants on board, experimented with our menu, and slowly and steadily engineered the menu.

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How Restaurant CEO Priorities are Evolving in 2020

Aaron Allen & Associates

In some cases, this can help to optimize resources and shift risks (pensions, labor unions, taxes, insurance, administrative burden) if you pay enough to keep mercenaries. Marco’s Pizza separated the franchising department into a new company (Marco’s Franchised Services).

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‘The Community Still Makes Me Feel We All Belong to Each Other’

EATER

You’re harming your own community , the argument goes, as if a building protected by insurance is a community. Ruhel Islam, a Bangladeshi immigrant, opened his Minneapolis restaurant Gandhi Mahal in 2008. As if the owners of those small businesses would not also be interested in justice.

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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 Starbucks provides health insurance for gender-affirming procedures. Amanda Cohen, chef and owner of New York City's Dirt Candy, is vocal about culinary lists and awards that leave out female chefs. Remember me?I Broccoli Hot Dogs!Beet Beet Pastrami!Carrot Carrot Burgers!Mushroom

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

EATER

By the end of the call, he was like, we invested in Tesla in 2008 when no one wanted to. AK: They supply their own delivery person and insurance and all that. Yelp laid off thousands of people, OpenTable laid off thousands of people. He was like, “What’s your plan?” And I was like, “Yeah, we’re good. We’re back already.”

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

EATER

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. Accordingly, BIPOC students and out-of-work cooks were encouraged to apply for scholarships to cover travel and insurance costs.