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World Food Safety Day Roundtable

Modern Restaurant Management

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization designated “Food Safety: Prepare for the Unexpected” as the theme for World Food Safety Day (June 7) 2024. John Strom (JS) is vice president and general manager of Innovation at GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific.

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Want to See Food and Land Justice for Black Americans? Support These Groups.

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Food and agriculture, like everything in this country, are deeply intertwined with our nation’s entrenched history of slavery and structural racism. Through education and advocacy around food and farm issues, it nurtures collective Black leadership. Food justice is racial justice.

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

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She keeps her palate sharp by consulting on restaurant wine lists, but funnels most of her time and energy into Nomadica, which is expanding its selection and working on innovating beyond the can. I got a full-ride scholarship to UMass Amherst, where I majored in sustainable agriculture and gender studies and minored in English literature.

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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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Increasing Manager Productivity with Restaurant Inventory Management Technology

Hot Schedules

Department of Agriculture reports the cost of food is expected to grow another two to three percent in 2019, it is extremely important that managers are able to nail the process of counting, ordering and producing. Considering that the U.S. A manager may take a full inventory on Monday, then check steaks on Tuesday and champagne on Friday.

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The Contemporary Roles of Women in Tea; Focus on Nepal

T-Ching

I feel a lot of our new ideas, innovative techniques/technologies were simply dismissed because of our gender rather than our expertise. Menuka aims to implement IOT ( Internet of Things) in the agricultural sector of Nepal. She wants to inspire youth on agriculture and change the concept of agriculture in Nepal.

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Restaurant Industry Suppliers: Time to Retool and Realign

Aaron Allen & Associates

Agricultural Production. Agricultural yield has increased historically with productivity gains increasing 5 fold since the 1940s, thanks to technological advancements. Technology has not been widely adopted primarily because incumbents have done little to innovate and bring to market compelling reasons to switch.