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HAGS Will Be Queer First, and a Restaurant Second

EATER

Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley are creating a blueprint for fine dining’s queer future with their upcoming New York City opening, HAGS The dining room at 163 First Avenue in New York’s East Village is barely big enough to fit two people standing side by side.

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15 Restaurant Metrics to Know and How To Use Them

7 Shifts

For fine dining, around 30 percent. Whereas a bakery or pizzeria's most costly ingredients maybe cheese or chocolate, a fine-dining restaurant's could be shellfish and top-of-the-line beef. Hiring is one of the most challenging parts of the restaurant industry and not something that you want to have to do often.

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An Eater’s Guide to Visiting (and Drinking) Champagne 

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You were just given a generic list of suggestions for dining options, straddling a line between ludicrously expensive and horribly grim.”. The dining room at Ruinart. “There was always a gift shop with ice buckets and t-shirts for sale. If you were a tourist, you were never invited for lunch or dinner. Perrier-Jouët. Brunch at Ruinart.

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

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Today, Pilsen is one of the hippest areas in Chicago, with a thriving arts scene, fine dining options, and quaint cafes that continue to entice wealthier transplants to the area as working-class Mexicans who have lived there for years are displaced. Between 2000 and 2010, the Latinx population declined 26 percent. s Chinatown.

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The Restaurant World Still Has a Child Care Problem

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Some days he’s fine. When restaurants began reopening after lockdowns, child care facilities were still closed, so Benca took an underused private dining room in the restaurant and, with the addition of toys, bean bag chairs, changing tables, and babysitting staff, she transformed it into a child care option for her employees.

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Changes at McDonald’s and Reducing Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Hottovy, consumer equity strategist at Morningstar., "Easterbrook, who left McDonald's "following the Board's determination that he violated company policy and demonstrated poor judgment involving a recent consensual relationship with an employee", had been instrumental in the company's turnaround efforts since 2015.

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Virtual Acceleration, Raising the Bar and Insult Monitor

Modern Restaurant Management

The majority of fast-casual and fine dining operators are meeting this challenge head-on by adding new offerings monthly,* driving increased competition with bar-and-grill operators. Instawork launched in 2015 and the company’s vision is to create economic opportunity for local workers and hospitality businesses.

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