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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. Here’s a wild guess: your plan for 2020 didn’t involve a restaurant-crushing pandemic. Neither did mine. As I sat and looked at the numbers, my heart sank.

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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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Sun, Sand, and Spaghetti

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A 2017 article in Remezcla reports that the Dominican tradition of empaguetadas now mostly survives at house parties and other indoor gatherings. A 2017 article in Remezcla reports that the Dominican tradition of empaguetadas now mostly survives at house parties and other indoor gatherings. We’re at Welch, doing an empaguetada!”

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David Chang’s Memoir Fails to Account for the Trauma He Caused Me

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David Chang’s new memoir grapples with the white-hot fury that defined most of his career. But as an employee on the receiving end of that rage, the book fails to account for trauma he caused me. David Chang changed the way America eats. Along with Momofuku’s rise has come Chang’s own.

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Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is Disney’s First Food-Focused Thrill Ride

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The ride’s queue, which begins in a hypothetical front office, highlights Tiana’s in-house line of jarred vinegar peppers, garlic salt, and pecan oil before meandering towards a kitchen where beignet preparation is underway for the Mardi Gras celebration we see at the ride’s end. Frogs playing bongos! Employee-owners!

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

Modern Restaurant Management

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.