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Order Up! Offer Financial-Based Incentives to Tackle Staffing Challenges 

Modern Restaurant Management

Kitchen and front-of-house employees are simply harder to find. Prioritize health and safety : At the height of the pandemic, most restaurants enacted measures to protect employees and customers, such as blocking off every other table, requiring masks and erecting plastic barriers between tables and at the bar.

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7 Ways to Deal With the Labor Shortage in 2021

Touch Bistro

Remember the expression, too many cooks in the kitchen ? are trying everything and the kitchen sink to recruit and retain employees in the face of a labor shortage the likes of which this industry hasn’t seen in decades. million food service employees lost their jobs in 2020. Well, go ahead and unlearn it. In total, 2.5

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How to Set Up and Run a Ghost Kitchen for Your Restaurant Business

Restaurant365

Increased demand for food delivery had already boosted the growth of ghost kitchens, and the COVID-19 pandemic has escalated both the popularity and profitability of the model. Ghost kitchens cut the cost of real estate and labor by reducing the restaurant model to accommodate off-premise food sales. What is a ghost kitchen?

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Federal Grants Programs for Shared Use Commercial Kitchens Supporting Local Food Systems

The Food Corridor

Bootstrapping a shared commercial kitchen is never easy. Here we take a look at some examples of community projects involving shared-use commercial kitchens that each received hundreds of thousands of dollars to make an impact in their communities. . Inspirational Shared Kitchen Projects Already Funded. March 3, 2021.

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Buy American Restaurant Chains

Aaron Allen & Associates

And though in 2020 the U.S. Easy Recruiting: Operating in the U.S. makes it easier to recruit and keep high-caliber, U.S.-based based Grubhub in June 2020. Stable and Strong Restaurant Growth: One of the reasons investors often seek to invest in the U.S. foodservice industry is its predictability. in annual revenue).

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

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2020, a new coalition will help hospitals not just in New York but nationwide provide patients plant-based food options that combat rather than contribute to cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart disease. In 2020, it is expanding its efforts to engage even more organizations in reducing meat consumption. Health Care Without Harm.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

The robotic kitchen runs on batteries instead of a diesel generator. Cleanliness – The robotic kitchen is NSF 169 certified, which is the equivalent to best in class sanitation, to ensure customers know that their blend is created in the cleanest, safest, and most sanitary environment possible. Door Dash Shared Kitchen. ?DoorDash?