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The Godparents of the Filipino Food Movement Say Goodbye

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Amy Besa surveils the Purple Yam dining room on the Wednesday evening of its final week of service. Besa and Dorotan ran Cendrillon until 2009, when rent in Soho became prohibitive. This time we will embrace our culture — let’s name it Purple Yam,” Besa says of the new restaurant, which opened in late 2009.

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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

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Published: 2009 ?? Topics: Find dining; restaurant management; finding suppliers. ?? Anyone interested in fine dining (or audacious characters for that matter) will love Kitchen Confidential. Improving these relationships is a surefire way to improve your restaurant’s service and bottom line. Author: Danny Meyer ??

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Fine dining and upscale casual were the worst performing segments during March based on same-store sales growth. Family dining was another segment that was hit hard, which includes many buffet-based concepts. Full-Service Restaurants Hit Hardest by the Crisis. Same-Store Sales at McDonald's. had risen to 79 percent.

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The Arch Deluxe Was a Hell of a Burger. It Was Also McDonald’s Most Expensive Flop.

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In the ’90s, fine dining chef Andrew Selvaggio was tasked with creating a burger that would appeal to sophisticated palates. It was the creation of Andrew Selvaggio, a fine dining chef from Chicago’s legendary Pump Room. The problem was no one wanted it. The year is 1996. I learned not to get too attached.”

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How I Got My Job: Running NYC’s Hottest Indian Restaurants and Winning a James Beard Award

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In addition to these celebrated restaurants, the duo and their team also run fast-casual fried chicken concept Rowdy Rooster , the Biryani Bol delivery operation, and immersive virtual reality dining experience Aerobanquets RMX. Then I got an opportunity to move to Singapore and serve as a chef-partner in a fine dining restaurant.

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Pastry Chefs Aren’t Disappearing — We’re Evolving

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When I began baking professionally, the pastry cook trajectory was rather straightforward — you put in your time working in fine dining and worked your way up to pastry chef. 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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How this top Brooklyn restaurant is able to pay teams more than industry average

7 Shifts

I worked in fine dining for so long, I thought my career was always going to be in fine dining, and I'm not saying that I'm completely. He drew on his experience in fine dining, an all too common one of overwork and chasing perfection, and knew that he wanted to create a healthier work environment at Pecking House.