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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. Expect for casual dining, upscale casual and fine dining to have abysmal sales and traffic growth numbers.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

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Combining our backgrounds in tech, automation, and culinary fine dining, we knew we could fill this void to give more people access to healthy, high-quality food.” From cups to straws, all of Ono’s consumables are compostable, making Ono more sustainable compared to traditional smoothie establishments.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ alluring story — that a fine dining restaurant could be a model for changing the world — seduced diners, would-be employees, and thought leaders alike. His dream had been to work in fine dining, and he was determined to stay at Blue Hill long enough for it to count. COMPOST oven: 155 degrees.

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Orange Is the New Yolk

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The rise of the farm egg on fine dining menus also coincided with the Great Recession, an era when “a lot of fine dining chefs started looking into ingredients that had been considered trashy or ugly,” says Druckman. They would make the ingredients ‘refined,’ and charge more but pay less.”

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

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Over his first 10 years at Stone Barns, he built a flourishing, 10-acre organic vegetable farm using compost and rotational planting to feed the soil. Workers plow fields at the Stone Barns farm in Pocantico Hills, New York, in April 2017. Workers in the fields at the Stone Barns farm in 2017.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

Sandy is a graduate of Walsh College with a Bachelor’s of Accountancy and accomplished the designation of Certified Scrum Master in 2017. SpotOn is quickly becoming a part of everyday life for consumers across the country whenever they shop, dine, or visit a stadium or a college campus.” William (Bill) M.

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Houston Brunch Restaurants to Check Out This Weekend

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Enjoy jazz in the courtyard as you dine on one of Brennan’s signature dishes, like their buttermilk-fried quail beignet or Eggs Brennan. Ortega has cemented himself as one of America’s finest chefs, and he has the hardware to prove it, taking home top honors in the best chef category in the 2017 James Beard Awards. Order Online.