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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

While you must follow the strict guidelines to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, that’s not to say you can’t take advantage of an empty restaurant to improve your knowledge of restaurant management, running a business, and creating a recipe for success when you eventually get back to business as usual. Published: 2009 ??

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How this top Brooklyn restaurant is able to pay teams more than industry average

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When the pandemic forced restaurant shutdowns, Huang turned his uncle's Fresh Meadows restaurant, Peking House, into a fried chicken popup, also called Pecking House, albeit with a spelling variation. He joined us on the Pre-Shift Podcast to tell us about his new restaurant, paying fair wages, and how he feels about tipping.

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Top Three Reasons Why Multi-Unit Operators Should be Looking at Fast Casual Brands to Expand their Portfolio in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Which brings us back to the restaurant industry. This trend is what’s driving the growth of Modern Market Eatery, which was founded in 2009 on the principle that fast food can still be nutritious and flavorful. Multi-unit restaurant owners in the have lots of reasons for wanting to diversify their brand portfolios.

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How can producers use green coffee to barter for other goods and services?

Perfect Daily Grind

After providing for themselves and their families, producers can reinvest profits back into their farms to purchase equipment and resources – such as fertilisers and irrigation systems – and carry out necessary repairs and maintenance. So how exactly does a barter system work in coffee production? Read on to find out what they had to say.

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What We Miss When Vacation Rentals Become Contactless

EATER

Shared lodging like bed and breakfasts, boarding houses, and room rentals are falling out of favor, replaced by contactless, host-less vacation rentals. I, however, came back with boiled eggs. But at what cost? They weren’t packed away in the cargo hold; they were plastered in my memory.

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How I Got My Job: Leading the Dining Program at a Working Farm and Writing Cookbooks

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I get to work with the agriculture teams, which manage our vegetable and grain production, and the retail team, which leads the farm store and the online farm store. For example, every week our farm manager sends a list of what she’s going to be harvesting from the fields. The cooks and I take that and brainstorm dishes.

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The Toxicity of Restaurant Kitchens Is Exactly Why I Never Reported Abuses

EATER

He never yelled or raised his voice, instead relying on sous chefs and managers to keep us in line. When I finally left the doughnut job in 2009, I left the industry entirely — not because I wanted another career, but because I couldn’t see a path to a sustainable, balanced life in food. They didn’t like it.