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Protect the Package: Ensuring Food Safety in Shift to Takeout and Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

Here are three ways to support and communicate food safety claims and ensure that take-out and delivery items are safe once they leave the premises: Screening. Since the company was founded in 2009, all of their drivers always start their day at a Delivery Dudes driver hub. Communicating.

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How Having A Long-Term Plan Can Help Restaurants Handle the Short-Term Crisis

Modern Restaurant Management

When I heard Erik talking with Josh Kopel on the Full Comp podcast about how his ten-year plan helped him navigate the 2009 financial crisis, I knew he had the right idea. He’s the force behind Tender Greens , with chef-lead locations in California and Boston.

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Preparing your Cafe and Restaurant for the 2020 Recession

Ken Burgin

Then there was the Global Financial Crisis in 2007 – 2009, which affected Australia to some extent, but a rapid economic response by the government stopped it from having the effect here that it had elsewhere. The last time we had an impact like this in Australia was back in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks in New York.

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J. LOHR VINEYARDS & WINES NAMES CO-OWNER CYNTHIA LOHR CHIEF BRAND OFFICER

Sante

Named director of communications in 2002 and promoted to J. Lohr VP marketing in 2009, Lohr shifted roles to trade and brand advocate in 2016 to focus on high-impact, strategic industry relations with trade, partners, and consumers – with brand excellence always at the forefront. Lohr in 2002.

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Being Proactive, in Practice: xtraCHEF’s Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak

Xtra Chef

And now, with cases in over 114 countries and the number of people affected growing by the day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared a pandemic — the first since the H1N1 outbreak in 2009. Large events that bring a lot of business to local communities, like SXSW, are getting put on hold.

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A Series of Extremely Scientific Theories on Why Fun Is Fun

EATER

We see the same pattern after the Great Recession in 2008 and 2009. Between the mid-00s and 2008, restaurants like the spectacular Bazaar by José Andrés in Los Angeles and the gigantic Del Posto in New York emerged. We got a whole bunch of these places: Beauty and Essex opened in 2010, Tao Downtown in 2013, Vandal in 2016.

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

EATER

And communication of thoughts and emotions is always valuable. I found a really amazing community of farm-to-table restaurants and bakeries, and then started a farm in 2009 to continue that learning. While it doesn’t seem like those things directly translate to my profession, the writing certainly does.