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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

By championing Enlightened Hospitality and hiring a team of 51 percenters, you’ll improve the customer experience and employee satisfaction—which will lead to more repeat business and reduced staff turnover. Published: 2017 ?? Topics: Leadership; time management; reducing overheads and staff turnaround. ?? Goodreads: 4.23

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Coffee News Recap, 16 Dec: ICO lowers coffee consumption growth forecast to 1% to 2% until 2030, CEPEA says more rainfall needed in Brazil for successful 2022/23 harvest & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

The La Colombe Workers Union says the majority of employees at the Gold Coast and West Loop locations have agreed to hold a union election through the National Labor Relations Board. Employees claim the partnership between Starbucks and Amazon Go doubled their workload with no additional pay. Tue, 13 Dec. Thu, 15 Dec.

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Famous Dave’s: A Quarter Century of BBQ Evolution

Modern Restaurant Management

We had leadership from the heart program, Hog Heaven University, a certified Pitmaster program and a train the trainer program. What are some lessons you have learned along the way you could relate to someone just starting out in the restaurant industry? Our retail products give us unbelievable top of mind awareness across the country.

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P.F. Chang’s To Go and Wing Squad Delivers

Modern Restaurant Management

Under Allen’s leadership, this C-suite team has been instrumental in implementing a multi-faceted transformation plan designed to ensure long-term sustainability, enhance brand relevance, accelerate innovation, improve guest satisfaction, increase overall profitability and create a clear growth plan to propel the company forward.

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Restaurant Industry Suppliers: Time to Retool and Realign

Aaron Allen & Associates

Between 2015 and 2017, Chipotle had a series of foodborne illness outbreaks related to compromised food safety. This is usually related to restaurants’ deliveries, but can also be associated with suppliers delivering food parcels to individual restaurant locations. in market cap. Sanitation. Last-Mile Delivery.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-January 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

percent growth over the fourth quarter of 2017. percent since Q3 of 2017. After a tough 2017, family dining has been experiencing a resurgence and had strong same-store sales growth during 2019. Same-store sales growth during Q4 shows restaurant sales decreased by -0.1 percent, which represented an improvement of 0.3

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The restaurant industry needs to step up for women. We asked four leaders how to do it.

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The most notorious is Mario Batali of Food Network fame, who had numerous sexual harassment allegations made against him in 2017. Everyone wins when employees are comfortable bringing up issues before they get worse. “I Check with female employees about how you can help them reach their full potential. Ask them for feedback.