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Taking Care of the Back of the House

EATER

1,300 families, 120,000 pounds of food: How No Us Without You feeds LA’s undocumented restaurant workers At 11 a.m. Next, the cars pulled up to a second tent, where volunteers loaded boxes of food into open trunks, back seats, and any other space they could find. Nolasco says the project was born out of a moment of anger.

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12 Restaurant Lunch Specials: Make Lunch the Most Important Meal of the Day ???

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January is fast-approaching, and hot lunch spots will soon be back on the mind of every highschool and college student in your area. Want to capture the hungry, back-to-school lunch crowd for January? Give BOGO a go Even though eating alone is a growing trend , food remains a fundamentally social experience.

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A COOK WITHOUT A KITCHEN

Culinary Cues

They say we’re back. The kitchen lights are back on, deliveries arrive, the battery of ranges is fired up, and cooks (some of us) are welcomed back. Sure, there are temperature checks at the back door, masks donned upon arrival, and deep hand cleaning constantly throughout the day, but in reality no one knows if this is enough.

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24 Restaurant Positions and Their Roles Explained

Sling

Whether you’re looking to hire employees for a fine dining establishment, a food truck, or a fast food business, you’ll need any number of restaurant positions to make up the foundation of your team. A fine dining establishment may need all 24 positions on this list, while a food truck may only need three or four.

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THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES

Culinary Cues

At the same time, many of those restaurant employees – front and back of the house, were taking their time trying to decide if it made sense to return to an industry that was unpredictable, low paying, void of reasonable benefit plans, and now a target for customer anger and angst as servers suddenly became covid policemen.

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Restaurant Recovery Strategies As Restaurants Re-Open

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According to the CDC, cooked food will not spread a virus, but hard surfaces, like plates and utensils, may. Front of the house staff should not venture into the kitchen, and they should wear masks. Wipe down all kitchen surfaces; stove knobs; door handles; bathroom surfaces; chair backs; counter-tops, and tables.

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YEA: Restaurants Showing Resiliency with New Openings

Modern Restaurant Management

New restaurant and food businesses are opening at pre-pandemic levels, with the number of new openings increasingly more in line with 2018 and 2019 volumes, according to third quarter data for the Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report. “Business owners have proven their resilience throughout the course of this pandemic.