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

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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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What Now? COVID-19 Survival Guide for Restaurants

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and Canada through free delivery and marketing efforts.” As reports of the disease spread, so do concerns about supply chain disruption, business operations, and employee safety and well-being. . “That’s why we’re working to drive increased demand to more than 100,000 independent restaurants across the U.S.

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Ghost Kitchen Franchise and Pandemic Resources

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In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature sobering statistics from Yelp, a ghost kitchen franchise model, franchise explosions expected and falling for for an improved PSL. This includes beer, wine and spirit stores (down 21%), community supported agriculture (down 23 percent), and organic stores (down 11 percent).

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2020 Edition

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Most Important safety initiatives. Followed (not surprisingly) by restaurants and delivery drivers following proper safety protocols, price, and ease of ordering from the restaurant. This is why remarketing to existing customers should be a critical component of any restaurant's marketing strategy.

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The Great Shortage

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We live in a world that, for a lot of reasons, has become very globally interconnected,” says Trey Malone, an agricultural and food economist, and an assistant professor in Michigan State University’s College of Agricultural and Natural Resources. Shortages and sourcing issues are becoming the new normal for restaurant operators. “We

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White Castle Flips for Flippy and Burma Bites

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This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. We are excited to support their mission to help independent restaurants optimize online ordering and generate incremental revenue from under-utilized kitchens.”

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Flour Trip

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Though tabletop mills are not uncommon in Germany, Mock hoped to make his mills (or really, any mill, he says) a staple in American kitchens, too. Mock now runs a company called Mockbake, through which he sells whole grain kitchen tools like oat flakers.) “I These standards have been present in America ever since.