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15 Restaurant Metrics to Know and How To Use Them

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Ideal menu price. To put it simply, your cost of goods sold is how much it costs you to produce a menu item. As you add together all of your menu items, you can determine the total cost of everything (to you) that you sell to your guests. For fine dining, around 30 percent. Average customer headcount.

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The Country’s Best Sandwich Makers Are Expanding Into Fine Dining

EATER

Blocks away from the restaurant sits the shipping container that launched the team’s Wax Paper, which since its opening in 2015 has become a favorite takeout spot for inventive, quality sandwiches. Wonho Frank Lee/Eater LA The dining room at Lingua Franca. Rey Lopez/Eater DC The dining room at Grazie Nonna.

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

EATER

His legendary “tabletop dessert,” which is still on the Alinea menu today, involves a slew of elements — sauces and gelees, glitter made from strawberries, and sleek chocolate orbs — artfully swished and swooped all over the table right before diners’ eyes. Crumbled cookies were now “soil,” and orbs of chocolate became “pearls.”

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10 Women Entrepreneurs Who Are Making Their Presence Felt In The Indian F&B Sector

The Restaurant Times

A designer by profession and without having any prior experience in the F&B fraternity, Puja Sahu is a fine example of resourcefulness and grit. She is the brains behind The Potbelly, the first-ever fine-dine Bihari restaurant of India. Puja Sahu, Co-Founder, The Potbelly. Minu & Preeyam Budhia, Founder, ICanFlyy.

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Where to Stay, Dine & Be Seen During Super Bowl LIV Weekend in Miami

Sante

Ariete : Set in idyllic Coconut Grove, Chef/Owner Michael Beltran’s Ariete has established a name for itself as one Miami’s most dynamic restaurants, offering a contemporary menu of New American cuisine with Latin, particularly Cuban, influences. Beaker & Gray is located at 2637 North Miami Avenue in Wynwood.

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Our Favorite Places to Eat in Atlanta

Restaurant Clicks

Aria is an electric fine-dining restaurant located in Buckhead. Many celebrities passing through Atlanta have found themselves in the discreetly lit dining room at Aria. With Matthew Basford serving as Executive Chef, the dining menu is simply extraordinary. Notably, the service is outstanding.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the National Restaurant Association's State of the Indusrty Report, food industry pressures, foodservice opportunities, influencer marketing, foot traffic analysis and the dining-out dollar. percent between 2015 and 2018, compared with a 2.5

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