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Powerhouse Women in the Kitchen

Sante

She shifted her focus and accepted her first pastry position at Sunny Isles Italian eatery, Café L’attito and didn’t look back. Despite the old adage, “A woman’s place is in the kitchen”, professional kitchens to this day continue to be male-dominated. Photo credit: Blue Shell Media.

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What Happens When Crowdfunding Isn’t Enough?

EATER

In reflecting on the process, Velazquez Lindsten’s story illustrates how precarious opening a small bakery remains for operators without major backing — and the benefits and limits of turning to crowdfunding. Kreiter Looking back, I can see every mistake I made very clearly. That was so silly.

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A Plant-Based Pioneer’s Journey to Become an Entrepreneur

Foodable

There's a lot of red tape and administration, a lot of licensing fees. I had to keep going back and I pretty much lived at city hall until we finally opened our doors.” Listen to "A Plant-Based Pioneer’s Journey to Become an Entrepreneur" on Spreaker. The next generation of culinary artisans are changing up the industry.

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How to Make Your Coffee Shop More Accessible

Perfect Daily Grind

Perhaps you’re entering as a potential employee with your CV in hand. Do you have to consider whether you’ll be discriminated against because of an impairment? For many people, these questions wouldn’t occur. But for people with disabilities and impairments, they are a part of everyday life. She tells me what factors were considered in their design.

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White Castle Flips for Flippy and Burma Bites

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. Ordermark Raises $120M in Series C Funding. Ordermark closed its $120M Series C funding round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2[1] and joined by returning investor Act One Ventures.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

EATER

Schaible kept a notebook in his back pocket to write down everything he learned: how sheep-grazing patterns affect flavor, the proper way to butcher old dairy cattle. This story contains a detailed account of a sexual assault. Last year, I showed my partner the scenes I was in, and he was ecstatic, ‘Cool, my boyfriend’s on Netflix!’

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)