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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

While you must follow the strict guidelines to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, that’s not to say you can’t take advantage of an empty restaurant to improve your knowledge of restaurant management, running a business, and creating a recipe for success when you eventually get back to business as usual. Published: 2009 ??

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

EATER

Over the next decade, new cafes, restaurants, and housing developments owned by outsiders replaced many resident-owned properties and abandoned lots. Inocencio Carbajal opened his acclaimed taqueria, Carnitas Uruapan, on West 18th Street in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood in 1975. But the Pilsen around it is changing again.

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

EATER

After dropping off most of the load at my cousin’s house, I took my cut, a private stash of two boxes. My cousin knew a Pakistani guy who had acquired the best stuff money could buy, rare varietals that were spoken of in hushed, reverent tones at parties. I wasn’t about to miss my chance, so I volunteered to grab the stuff myself.

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Ghetto Gastro, in Its Own Words

EATER

Black Power Kitchen is as much a cooking manual as it is a manifesto of Ghetto Gastro’s decade-long mission: Seeing eating as simultaneously a form of survival and a source of luxury, Black Power Kitchen frames food as a form of love, but also a weapon — one that has long been wielded against communities like Ghetto Gastro’s in the Bronx.

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The Fermented Foods Industry Is Built on Global Ingredients. So Why Are Its Most Visible Faces White?

EATER

While the fermented foods industry evangelizes products rooted in global, often East Asian, traditions, its most visible faces are predominantly white The first time I tasted kombucha was in 2010, at a Whole Foods in San Francisco. The community is grounded in reconnecting people to traditional food systems, lost tastes, and microbial heritages.

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Entering China’s Emerging Coffee Market

Perfect Daily Grind

Instant coffee was popular in China until 2012 , when imports started to decrease. This was due to an increased interest in ground coffee, with more consumers choosing to visit coffee houses over making instant coffee at home. For producers and roasters looking to enter an untapped market, it offers incredible potential.

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The Top Brooklyn Heights Restaurants To Eat At This Week

Restaurant Clicks

Noodle Pudding Henry’s End Colonie Table 87 Chez Moi Boutros Dellarocco’s Heights Falafel The River Café River Deli Bohemien Bar Saketumi Asian Bistro Henry Public two8two Bar & Burger Clark’s Grand Canyon Henry Street Ale House. Sit back in black lacquer chairs and tables and enjoy New American cuisine.