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What Is A Central Production Kitchen, And Why Are Restaurant Brands Increasingly Adding Them To Their Operations?  

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It helps them expand operations while keeping food quality consistent across locations and channels, and, equally important, keeping the overhead costs in balance. Recommended read : Restaurant Expansion Strategy: How to Grow Your Restaurant Into a Successful Food Empire. This blogpost covers: What is a central kitchen? Their goal?

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The Return of the American Rail Dining Car

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We arrived in the cafe car, Amtrak’s a la carte snack bar (where, generally speaking, there is never much action or enticing food), and I asked a porter where the dining car was. But all travelers deserve to eat well, especially those crossing long distances — and some of that money could end up improving food service.

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Flour Trip

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Me, I was cleaning out a trash can full of dog food to make room for 50 pounds of flour. The problem with the Western diet, Mock said, is that all the wholesome foods we need are right in front of us, but we default to lazy shortcuts — like vitamins and smoothies and processed “health” foods — that don’t actually nourish us. “It