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What Now? COVID-19 Survival Guide for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

To help ensure the survival of these restaurants, many of which are family owned, the PR industry has banded together to create a campaign called "Dining Bonds." The dining bonds are being offered by participating restaurants across the country at a suggested savings of 25 percent when purchased. . "We're

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November/December 2020 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants Challenge Dining Bans : Restaurants across the country are challenging city, county, and state bans on indoor and outdoor dining due to COVID-19. For the most part, courts have upheld dining restrictions due to public safety concerns. New York lawmakers are considering a similar law, Assembly Bill 784. & J.

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

EATER

Eighteen former workers at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture allege dysfunction in the livestock program at America’s most famous regenerative farm “This isn’t a joke,” police told the Daily Voice , a hyperlocal news site in Westchester County, New York, on August 30, 2018. “We Pseudonyms are denoted with asterisks.

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10 Alternative Foodservice Formats Impacting the Restaurant Industry

Aaron Allen & Associates

Delivery-Only Concepts and Dark Kitchens Delivery is one of the most dynamic forces reshaping the restaurant industry. Delivery-only (sometimes referred to as “dark kitchens” where there is no customer-facing location) represents about 3.5%

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New Brands We Love: Impossible Foods

Cheetah

We stock our warehouses with the highest quality ingredients from the best local and national brands and offer them to customers at fair prices with next-day, contact free delivery. But we hate to see the negative effects the industrialized livestock agriculture industry has on our planet and on our health.

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How I Found Empowerment in the History of Black Veganism

EATER

Our food connected me to my ancestors and to my family around the dining room table. Department of Agriculture formally describes as a “food desert,” though the food justice activist Karen Washington prefers the more apt term “food apartheid” — which are defined in large part by the nearly century-long legacy of redlining.