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The Six Most Common Franchise Problems (And How to Solve Them)

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However, you can work to mitigate your opening costs by shopping contractors and renovators in your area to see who can give you the best price, which could bring down your restaurant opening costs. Less Brand Control In late 2015, more than 40 people fell ill with E. coli after eating at Chipotle.

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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. It also plays a key factor in pricing your menu. To calculate sales per labor hour, you need the following: Total revenue, from all sources. Employee turnover rate. Check Average.

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Can Maine Scallops Go Mainstream?

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which are often sourced from large trip boats that work federally managed offshore waters three or more miles off the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Virginia, staying at sea for a week or more (overall, Maine lands less than 2 percent of U.S. sea scallops). But with chefs, you have to have product for them.”.

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What Is Coffee Leaf Tea?

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From the 16th century to the 19th century, Ethiopian farmers set aside their harvested coffee for trade or consumption in special ceremonies. Mateusz currently sources his tea from Bente Luther-Medoch’s Machare Estate in Tanzania. Coffee leaf tea has been drunk in Sumatra, Ethiopia, Jamaica, India, Java, and Sudan for centuries.

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Entering China’s Emerging Coffee Market

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As they’re increasingly willing to pay higher prices for higher quality, many local roasters and coffee shops have started to take advantage of this. In 2015 , KFC also launched their own affordable coffee offering, which is available in many of its 4500 outlets across the country. US $7) or more”. Credit: Ocean Grounds Coffee.

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Restaurant Industry Suppliers: Time to Retool and Realign

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Between 2015 and 2017, Chipotle had a series of foodborne illness outbreaks related to compromised food safety. As a result, between September 2015 and January 2016, the company lost $10.5B Restaurants’ purchasing power also affects what they can get from suppliers and the prices they can get. in market cap. Sanitation.

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Pandemic Shortages Won’t Ruin Kate Kook’s Banchan Thanksgiving

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The Kate’s Kitchen owner discusses sourcing challenges, Thanksgiving banchan, and cooking through a pandemic As far as kimchi goes, the stuff that Kate Kook makes is pretty famous. Through her small-batch kimchi business Kimchi Kooks, Kate, along with her son, started selling jars of cabbage and white radish kimchi in Brooklyn stores in 2015.

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