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All Hail the Halal Fried Chicken Shop

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As she waits for her four pieces of fried chicken and a biscuit, a teenage boy hustles through the door, places his order, and sits on the edge of a bench seat, tapping his foot and singing under his breath. Ahmed Mohammed immigrated to the Bronx from Yemen in 2017 and recently started working part-time at the Jerome Avenue Kennedy.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

the number of customers who leave without being seated or greeted). Degel opened his first Atlanta-area location in 2016 in suburban Duluth with total indoor/outdoor seating for 150, including an 80-seat outdoor patio. Angela joined the Bolay family in late 2017 and has quickly become an integral member of the team.

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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. Is there something in the hiring or recruiting process that leaves women out? Every recruit gets a copy of the Hopdoddy “Journey”. Most of these incidents don't make headlines.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

.” Prior to joining Boston Market, Wyatt served as Operations Partner/Vice President of Operations for Panera Bread, where he was responsible for all aspects of operations, including retail, marketing, recruiting, catering, facilities and bakery at more than 40 cafes in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.

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

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Workers plow fields at the Stone Barns farm in Pocantico Hills, New York, in April 2017. Pigs feed as chickens walk around them in the woods at the Stone Barns farm in Pocantico Hills in 2017. In December 2017, Algiere asked Harrar to meet him alone at the farm on a Sunday afternoon and fired her.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Chicken Sale-d Chick and The Dolly Llama and This Is It! to Franchise

Modern Restaurant Management

The standard Dolly Llama Kiosk is 250-300 sq ft and the most suitable model for food courts or smaller locations that share a common seating area or outside venue such as a park. Todd is assuming responsibility for leading Eggs Up Grill growth by recruiting new qualified franchise partners into the rapidly expanding brand’s system.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Non-Traditional Dunkin’ and Boxing-Themed Concept

Modern Restaurant Management

” Founded by classically-trained chef Dave Kopushyan and three friends in early 2017, Dave’s Hot Chicken initially opened as a parking lot pop-up and now has 17 brick-and-mortar locations in the U.S. and Canada. There are currently more than 420 units committed in a little over a year of announcing the franchise initiative.

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