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Cracker Barrel Adds Booze to Menus So You Can Get Drunk the Old Country Store Way

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Plus, Blue Bell is paying out millions for contaminated ice cream it sold in 2015, and other news to start the day Cracker Barrel is getting boozy for good. million in criminal penalties for its negligence in handling contaminated ice cream products that were linked to listeria infections in 2015. Blue Bell has been ordered to pay $17.25

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Pastry Chefs Aren’t Disappearing — We’re Evolving

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Joules Garcia /Eater Pastry chefs may be leaving restaurants, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing for the profession For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least.

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Trash or Treasure? Used Cooking Oil’s Golden Allure Isn’t Just About its Color

Modern Restaurant Management

” Who could imagine the same could be said of smelly, dirty, used-up restaurant grease? billion pounds of used cooking oil is generated annually from restaurants and other foodservice businesses. A garage sale’s success depends on the saying, “one person’s trash is another’s treasure.”

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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. 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

Modern Restaurant Management

Please send plant-based news to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Good Food Restaurant Scorecard. The third annual Good Food Restaurant Scorecard ranks the top 100 restaurant chains in the U.S. This data covers U.S. to its menu.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the dismal March restaurant sales, security, loyalty, trends and teen consumer behaviors. Same-store sales for restaurants dropped by 28.3 Same-store sales for restaurants dropped by 28.3 March Sales Decline. percent in March.

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Coffee News Recap, 3 Mar: World AeroPress Championship opens 2023 host applications, Australia to hold national Barista Championship and Brewers Cup in May & other stories

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Roaster manufacturer IMF achieves UNI EN ISO 9001:2015 certification. In partnership with Tim Hortons’ parent company Restaurant Brands International, Marubeni Growth Capital Asia will open the first locations later this year. New York judge rules Starbucks guilty of repeatedly violating labour laws in response to unionisation efforts.

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