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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

B Corp Restaurants As of early 2024, almost 150 restaurants around the world have achieved the certification, from fine-dining independents to fast-casual chains, with hotels, breweries and food delivery companies also dotting the list. I have been fortunate to work with Sleepy Bee Cafe since its founding in 2013.

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Restaurant Groups Are Flocking to Nashville

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In addition to the fine dining imports, the city is also welcoming casual concepts from other cities, like Dallas’s Velvet Taco and NYC’s Black Tap. In 2013, Brock opened a second location of his acclaimed South Carolina restaurant Husk, which drew the eyes of national food media to the city. But why Nashville?

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How I Got My Job: Running NYC’s Hottest Indian Restaurants and Winning a James Beard Award

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In addition to these celebrated restaurants, the duo and their team also run fast-casual fried chicken concept Rowdy Rooster , the Biryani Bol delivery operation, and immersive virtual reality dining experience Aerobanquets RMX. Then I got an opportunity to move to Singapore and serve as a chef-partner in a fine dining restaurant.

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An Eater’s Guide to Whistler, British Columbia

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Many restaurants serve a sort of upscale mountain cuisine, seasonal and local ingredients used in dishes hearty enough to fuel outdoor adventures, combined with a decidedly casual setting and service. Evrensel sold Toptable in 2014, but the group continues to set the standard for high-end dining in Whistler. Portobello. Leila Kwok.

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Beyond Dining in the Dark: What It’s Actually Like to Eat Out When You’re Blind

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Listen to this article In 1999, the first “dining in the dark” restaurant opened in Zurich, Switzerland. Blindekuh was founded by a blind pastor to generate empathy for blind people, and dining in the dark restaurants have provided reliable jobs for the chronically underemployed blind workforce. It was almost a liquid.”

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MRM Research Roundup: Catering, Kiosks, Tipping and Dry January

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State of Digital Qu announced the results of its fifth annual survey of quick service (QSR) and fast casual (FC) restaurant brands. Digital ordering is still larger at fast casuals versus QSR. Half of fast casuals achieved 26-50 percent digital sales, while nearly half of QSRs had 11-25 percent digital sales.

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Changes at McDonald’s and Reducing Food Waste

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“Controlling the pace of the dining room – how often tables turn over and when to fill them again – has significant financial impact for restaurants,” said Jon Morin, OpenTable’s VP of Product Management. “In 2013, I was fortunate to partner with the Hudson team on the retail program at my home airport, St.

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