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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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Unprecedented Effects: How the Hospitality Industry Will Recover

Modern Restaurant Management

The current situation Involving lack of travel, dining out, and attending live entertainment, including sporting events, is of course having an adverse impact on hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues. Restaurants of all sizes have also been hit hard. The smaller restaurants may never re-open, depending on capital and expenses.

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Sichuan Peppercorns Are Hot Enough for McDonald’s

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But the fact that America’s largest chain restaurant now considers “Sichuan peppercorn” specifically a safe enough flavor to name on the menu at all is proof its journey into the mainstream is complete. Some restaurants got it illegally, but the lifting of the law made the ingredient far more accessible.

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Should Momofuku Own the Term ‘Chili Crunch’?

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But because trademark law requires brand owners to police use of their trademarks — and because Momofuku is concerned that consumers may actually be confused here — we write to request Homiah’s cooperation.” Homiah’s founder Michelle Tew says she was “gutted” to receive the letter. “As

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The Fight for L.A.’s Street Food Vendors

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Though vending was technically legalized in 2018, state public health laws make it almost impossible for most local vendors to get the permits they need. Diana Winters, deputy director at the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA School of Law, says it’s also important to look at public health from a broader perspective.

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New Lawsuit Argues Tipped Minimum Wage Violates Workers’ Civil Rights

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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. Today, One Fair Wage, which represents over 200,000 service workers and 800 restaurant workers, is filing an appeal to the U.S.

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Pay-What-You-Can Markets Provide Produce for the Common Good

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Pe’ah is a Jewish ancient law that instructed to leave the corners and the edges of one’s fields unharvested for those in need.” “I Just points to the brief rise of pay-what-you-can restaurants in the early 2000s, right before the 2008 recession, for instance. “If “For us, it was truly about caring for our neighbors.” “One

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