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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: 2017 ??

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The State of New York Restaurants in 2020

7 Shifts

Operations for 7shifts, I have been based in the New York technology and hospitality space for years (including a leadership role at Yelp for nearly a decade). Never before has our local market experienced such a massive disruption to the restaurant industry as we are experiencing with the Coronavirus pandemic.

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#MeToo, Still

EATER

Allison Vu /Eater Five years after I went public with my #MeToo experiences in the restaurant industry, has anything really changed? I worked at the Friedman-owned Spotted Pig between 2006 and 2007, and at the Rusty Knot and the Breslin from 2008 to 2012.) But there has also been measurable progress since 2017.

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MRM Restaurant Survival Guide, Second Course

Modern Restaurant Management

Because our COVID-19 Survival Guide for Restaurants was getting a bit on the long side, here's a second helping. So, we are focusing our efforts on helping restaurants survive the shutdown now and prepare to recover when they can re-open. What restaurants need right now is sound advice.”

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The Story Behind the José Andrés Nonprofit Currently Mobilized to Feed Gaza

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After it became clear that Andrés was in fact serious about creating an international empowerment nonprofit, MacNair came on in 2012. World Central Kitchen growing pains and leadership shakeup World Central Kitchen’s rapid growth has not been without pitfalls. It’s an empowerment organization,’” MacNair says. “I

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The Story Behind the José Andrés Nonprofit

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After it became clear that Andrés was in fact serious about creating an international empowerment nonprofit, MacNair came on in 2012. World Central Kitchen growing pains and leadership shakeup World Central Kitchen’s rapid growth has not been without pitfalls. It’s an empowerment organization,’” MacNair says. “I

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An Inside Look at Union Organizing in the Fast-Food Industry

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A Chipotle employee eats inside a SF restaurant in 2020. Current bids owe a lot to a broader, non-union “Fight for $15” campaign that launched in Chicago in 2012 among restaurant and retail workers, Han says. Not many people know what their rights are at work, in part because you have webs of state and federal and local law.

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