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July/August 2020 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

Under the ruling, California restaurants may still not serve foie gras to California consumers. The roadwork at issue was two years of construction (from December 2013 to June 2015) which caused dust and debris to migrate into the restaurant and required that the restaurant spend extra time cleaning. Administrative Developments.

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How a New York City Restaurant Loses Money on a $14 Sandwich

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With a staff of 35, it served only a tasting menu (plus a half-dozen a la carte items available at the bar), guests leisurely eating courses of fennel tagine, seaweed caviar with creme fraiche, or beet yakitori. The choice of an oval container, made of biodegradable and compostable sugarcane pulp, hurtles food costs upward to 24 percent.

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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2008: Cereal Milk launches an empire Christina Tosi invented or popularized a number of household-name desserts — Compost Cookies, Crack Pie ( now Milk Bar Pie ), naked cakes — but her Cereal Milk, which she initially developed at Wylie Dufresne’s wd~50, reshaped the dessert world. It quickly expanded across the U.S.,

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The True Cost of Keeping a Restaurant Open During a Pandemic

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In March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Bay Area, Techamuanvivit was forced to close the original location of Kin Khao, the critically acclaimed Thai restaurant she had opened in 2015 at the Parc 55 Hotel in Union Square. It feels good,” she said. It’s going well, or at least, we’re not making a profit but I know I can make rent.”

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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The carrot cutlet, a signature Dan Barber dish that represents the “Third Plate,” served at an event at in 2014. He cooks on the line in the restaurant every night and for the entire service and serves different menus for every table every night, which is unique for a chef of his stature. COMPOST oven: 155 degrees.

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What’s the difference between plastic and metal coffee pods?

Perfect Daily Grind

With the skyrocketing popularity of coffee capsules and other single-serve coffee options, there are more materials available on the market than ever before. Figures from the European Aluminium Association estimate that in 2015, the aluminium can recycling rate for Europe was over 76%. Compostable and biodegradable pods.

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Orange Is the New Yolk

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Four years before that, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened and began serving bowls of ramen topped with poached eggs. Some farms with heavy composting operations or lots of pigs will raise chickens atop compost and manure piles, “and that has its own flavor” that it imparts on the eggs, Bianco says. “It