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How I Got My Job: Founding a Hip and Sustainable Canned Wine Company

EATER

Only 30 percent of glass bottles are recycled in the U.S., I got a full-ride scholarship to UMass Amherst, where I majored in sustainable agriculture and gender studies and minored in English literature. UMass has an incredible sustainable agriculture program and an amazing community garden that feeds into a co-op vegan restaurant.

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3 Simple Ways Restaurants Can Reduce Food Waste this Holiday Season

Xtra Chef

The season of giving thanks and celebrating with friends, family and colleagues is upon us. And, with it, comes a rise in reservations for holiday parties, special family outings and overall overindulgence. The Issue of Food Waste in the Restaurant Industry. Food waste in the restaurant industry is real. Let’s take a peep at the numbers.

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Touring the Douro Valley with the Symington Port Family

Sante

Rupert Symington enjoys sharing stories of his family’s heritage in the Douro Valley. But he’s also a innovative leader in the modern port trade. Rupert Symington knows port. His family has run the Symington port business since the 1880s. Two hundred years earlier his great-grandmother’s family were port pioneers.

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Warmer Temperatures Could Mean More Grapes for Midwest Winemakers — but Also More Bad Weather

EATER

For Midwest winemakers, higher temperatures mean more opportunities to grow different grape varieties — but bring a new slew of challenges. After 11 years as a coastal science and policy specialist in Boston, Chantal Lefebvre and her husband Mike Newman moved to Northwest Michigan in 2007 to be closer to family that’d recently relocated there.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the great gift of a restaurant gift card, learning about event professionals, top QSR traffic and digital ordering strategies. Holiday Traffic Not Enough. Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. Same-store sales growth was 1.6

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

EATER

Schaible kept a notebook in his back pocket to write down everything he learned: how sheep-grazing patterns affect flavor, the proper way to butcher old dairy cattle. No chef has shaped the 21st-century conversation about the connections between agriculture , cuisine , ecology , health , and climate change more profoundly than Barber.

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Ultimate Grubhub, Red Lobster Catering and Parts in Town

Modern Restaurant Management

Replacing error-prone handwritten scribbles and shouts, Ultimate is a digital workflow solution, connecting the front- and back-of-the house directly with diners and creating a transparent view into their order status – whether diners order for pickup or delivery on Grubhub, at an in-store kiosk, or directly with a cashier.

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