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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. Sustainability and Quality Ingredients Matter The fast casual restaurant market is now being driven by innovative, healthier brands. Studies show that consumers want to eat healthier and are more loyal to brands with strong sustainability practices and sourcing.

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The Publishing World Is Finally Embracing Black Cookbooks

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Between 1950 and 2018, 95 percent of the books published by major publishing houses, like Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House, were written by white authors, according to a New York Times op-ed by Richard Jean So and Gus Wezerek. But Black authors, editors, and booksellers have long been doing the work.

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

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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. So did my coworkers: If anything, we sustained each other, for better and worse, providing a valued support system. They didn’t like it.

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MRM People & Places: Maki Madness and Pancakes for Life

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“VISIT PHILADELPHIA and the James Beard Foundation are thrilled for our unique partnership that brings the culinary and tourism industries together to make it easy for travelers to support delicious, diverse, and sustainable food,” said Jeff Guaracino, president and CEO, VISIT PHILADELPHIA.

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Pastry Chefs Aren’t Disappearing — We’re Evolving

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I began my pastry career by walking in the back door of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, and asking to intern in the pastry department. Don Guerra founded the celebrated Barrio Bread in 2009 from his garage, where he made hundreds of loaves a week for his neighbors with locally grown ingredients.

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Face Pay Network, Restaurant of the Future and The Main Course

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In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. The Main Course. "We always viewed a podcast as a natural extension of the MRM brand," said Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia. "When Restaurant of the Future Panel.

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

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She began to answer these queries more formally in her column for the daily Traverse City Record-Eagle , which then inspired her first cookbook: Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables. “I I wanted to really give people a resource for how to cook with all of this produce that we were growing,” she explains. Then, I write the menu.