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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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Restaurants Diversify Cooking Oils and Optimize Operations as Prices Soar

Cheetah

While restaurant owners compete against the energy sector for every drop of soy oil out there, they’re up against some tough competition. Operators are diversifying oil types and supply sources, while adjusting menus and learning how to prolong fry life. . Renewable Fuel Laws Worsen Soy Oil Crisis. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. To capture their attention and loyalty, businesses, including restaurants, must prioritise easy access and convenience. Read the first part, here.

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Give Some, Take Some: How the Community Fridge Fights Food Insecurity

EATER

When restaurants, bars, and nonessential businesses closed as a mandate of the state-imposed shutdown on April 29, millions of people found themselves out of jobs, unable to pay rent, and lacking the food they needed to survive. candidate in ecology at UC Davis in California, set up a community fridge on his front lawn in 2014. “We

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Pay-What-You-Can Markets Provide Produce for the Common Good

EATER

The operation was part of a larger nonprofit, the Leichtag Foundation , in 2014, before it splintered off to become its own nonprofit two years later. Pe’ah is a Jewish ancient law that instructed to leave the corners and the edges of one’s fields unharvested for those in need.” “I One [value] is called Pe’ah , which is kind of funny.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

Modern Restaurant Management

Please send plant-based news to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Good Food Restaurant Scorecard. The third annual Good Food Restaurant Scorecard ranks the top 100 restaurant chains in the U.S. This data covers U.S. to its menu.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-September 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Looking at the labor shortage over the last three months, it's clear that many small businesses are moving backwards in their recovery, especially restaurants. That's because a whopping 85 percent of restaurant owners now report it’s very difficult to find the right help. Manufacturers are in a similar situation.

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