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Taco Bell’s New Giant Cheez-It Is the Stuff of Fast Food Fever Dreams 

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Taco Bell The chain’s latest menu gimmicks are improbably good After a decade or so of writing about food, I am relatively immune to a fast-food gimmick. on a Saturday, the perfect time to indulge in what is essentially a fast-food fever dream. I ordered both the new Giant Cheez-It Tostada and the Giant Cheez-It Crunchwrap.

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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

Topics: Hospitality; hiring and training staff; building workplace culture. ?? To achieve Enlightened Hospitality you need to hire “51 percenters with 5 core emotional skills.” While achieving Enlightened Hospitality may seem redundant while you only serve takeout, it should be a core value of your restaurant and hiring process.

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Effectively Targeting and Marketing to Gen Z

Modern Restaurant Management

This new year is a perfect time to begin shaping a long-term vision and identifying opportunities for growing your restaurant or food services business over the next ten years. The sheer market size of Gen Z and their discretionary spending dollars should make restaurants and food services businesses sit up and take notice.

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McDonald’s Considers Radical Concepts Like Emergency Childcare to Entice Workers

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The service staffing crisis has some restaurants attempting extreme means to attract workers — you know, like the basic human rights that should have been there all along The reopening phase of the pandemic is long underway in most parts of the country, but fast-food operators are still struggling to find enough workers to staff their restaurants.

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International Women’s Day Special: Here’s What Our Industry Leaders Have to Say  

The Restaurant Times

She started out as a restaurant owner in the UK, worked as a restaurant General Manager in Dubai for Caprice Holdings, and with Taj and Marriott as a Food & Beverage Director. However, driven by her entrepreneurial spirit, she and her husband started their own venture, Dosa Inc, a South Indian food truck in 2012.

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Who’s Paying for the Great Delivery Wars?

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It’s probably not Uber Eats, Postmates, or Grubhub 2020 was an undeniably big year for food delivery. Not only was it convenient, it was also an ethical imperative: If you wanted to see your favorite restaurant survive, you needed to order out. Seamless was founded in 1999, Grubhub in 2004, Postmates in 2011, and DoorDash in 2012.

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How DoorDash and Postmates Make an Already Dangerous Job Worse

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By the time she returned in 2012, she felt that as “an independent artist, I didn’t have funds to pursue my music career.” Vianne applied to work as a food delivery worker for Postmates and DoorDash, two relatively recent app-based delivery services. From there they slowly saved until they could establish their own car dealership.”.