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15 Restaurant Metrics to Know and How To Use Them

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Ideal menu price. Your CoGSs is an essential number to have when determining your menu prices, inventory and impacts your net profit margin. For fine dining, around 30 percent. It also plays a key factor in pricing your menu. Employee turnover rate. Table turnover rate. Sales per labor hour. Check Average.

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

EATER

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.

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

EATER

You were just given a generic list of suggestions for dining options, straddling a line between ludicrously expensive and horribly grim.”. Prices available upon request. “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. Philipponnat. Perrier-Jouët.

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

EATER

The composed little plate (CLP for short) was a staple of the dessert menus of the 2010s, a departure from the stodgy chocolate cakes and boring tiramisu at the upscale dining destinations of the ’90s. Chris Barish , son of Planet Hollywood founder Keith Barish, founded Black Tap in 2015 in New York City.

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Virtual Acceleration, Raising the Bar and Insult Monitor

Modern Restaurant Management

US Foods will finance the acquisition primarily with $700 million in fully committed financing from Citigroup and Bank of America and will fund the balance of the purchase price through its existing liquidity resources. At the closing of the acquisition, US Foods’ pro forma net leverage is expected to be approximately 4.0x

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The Fermented Foods Industry Is Built on Global Ingredients. So Why Are Its Most Visible Faces White?

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Because I am Chinese-Malaysian (then a rarity in the industry), many customers assumed our product was of Asian origin, and I endured racist comments about its price point, taste, and provenance; many retailers and customers found tibicos hard to pronounce and asked why we didn’t call it by its more commonly used name, water kefir.

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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.