Social Hospitality: Restaurants

MAY 6, 2020

Hotel Trundle Shares Stories of Happiness. Since relatively early in the COVID-19 shutdown process, Hotel Trundle launched a #CHEERNOTFEAR hashtag campaign. Hotel Trundle has done a fantastic job of staying positive with their online presence. Four Seasons New York: Housing Healthcare Pros. Thank you @FourSeasons.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 3, 2023

The front- and back-of-house employees are part of what their union representatives say is the area's largest walkout in decades, with 15,000 workers involved.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2021

“Restaurant operators and workers have been working around the clock to bring their restaurants back—and finally they’re seeing that they have a chance. . “Restaurant operators and workers have been working around the clock to bring their restaurants back—and finally they’re seeing that they have a chance.

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EATER

APRIL 8, 2025

Another couple traveling from San Diego back home to Warren County, Ohio, brought their own food but also sometimes hit the dining car. The people who have made homemade food part of train culture tend to have ideas about self-sufficiency, food sovereignty, and going back to the land. Of course they eat the same way.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 3, 2022

I can feel the knot in that muscle move slowly from the top of my ankle to the back of my knee. By 7am I am walking through the back door of the kitchen. I polish off breakfast in record time, kick back another coffee, tie on an apron, and walk through the kitchen with clipboard in hand. I nod and give him a thumbs up.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 24, 2024

B Corp Restaurants As of early 2024, almost 150 restaurants around the world have achieved the certification, from fine-dining independents to fast-casual chains, with hotels, breweries and food delivery companies also dotting the list. But is B Corp certification something restaurants should pursue?

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The anxiety building up to a full house in the hotel packed with a series of food events has made it impossible to relax. Well, here we go. I haven’t slept much at all over the past few days and certainly won’t until the weekend is over. The preparation has been mind boggling, now we just have to execute. Things looked good.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

can help restaurateurs automate tasks and lessen the burden of staff running the front and back of the house. These are just some of the few solutions out there that restaurants and hotels can access to bring their operations to the next level. Automated solutions like call-in waiting, online bookings, etc.,

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EATER

JANUARY 28, 2021

With indoor dining still not an option in much of the country, hotel restaurants are using empty rooms as private dining suites There are few restaurants Hector Tamez frequents more than Uni , the izakaya located in Boston’s boutique Eliot Hotel. Hotels have suffered similarly.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 20, 2024

Looking back, Escoffier would probably admit, to some degree, that this was not the best approach and would encourage chefs and operators to build in this balance. It’s been 89 years since Escoffier stood in front of a range for the last time, yet his presence is still felt by professional cooks and chefs.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 16, 2023

Next week he would graduate from high school and James the cook at his diner invited him back for dinner and a chat. I never told you, but at the peak of my career I was the chef in a four-star hotel with a team of two dozen cooks. It was great, but my back didn’t agree, and I eventually had to step out of that role.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

Review mentions of “Back-owned” (and related terms) also skyrocketed, up 426 percent, as people look to support and surface these businesses to the community. In early June, we've seen diners seated come back substantially – now down 57 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels. Yelp's Economic Impact Report.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

" In an effort to help franchisees overcome the business challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis, Huddle House has announced a program of relief measures being temporarily offered to franchisees to support the system head-on during this crisis. "Cox Media has been very supportive to us during this difficult time. . "In

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EATER

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The patio at the Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa. In 2011, Anselme Selosse, the legendary winemaker who runs the Domaine Jacques Selosse with his wife Corinne, opened one of the first bistronomy-focused hotel-restaurants in the heart of the vines, Les Avisés (see the lodging and dining section below).

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SpotOn

JANUARY 14, 2025

  “Back in the day, you were served a restorative—a soup made from barley and onion with beer or whatever herbs you had at the time,” says Gordon. Gordon felt a calling to put the “restorative” back in “restaurant. ” Renee Gordon is no historian.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

“Now, more than ever, restaurateurs need an effective and affordable way to promote their restaurants to new and existing customers so they can bring them back again and again. TouchBistro Acquires TableUp. TouchBistro acquired Boston-based TableUp, a provider of loyalty and marketing solutions for the restaurant industry.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Most visitors beeline for resorts and hotels that ring the coastline, which do deliver the goods for beachgoers. Eat at your hotel or resort, and you’re most likely getting a toned-down, overpriced take on Bangkok-style Thai food. The hitch is that the most popular tourist areas generally lag behind in terms of food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

AI usage has also skyrocketed, primarily in the back-of-house. This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news of Drinksgiving and Thanksgiving trends, FSR challenges, and "out-of-the-box" dining habits. One strategy for reducing costs has been the increased use of technology.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Shared lodging like bed and breakfasts, boarding houses, and room rentals are falling out of favor, replaced by contactless, host-less vacation rentals. I, however, came back with boiled eggs. The key word here is “shared” — which is what separates a homestay from a standard vacation rental or hotel. But at what cost?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This conviction was reinforced early in my presidency when my father told me the story of Charlie Lubin, a man he met during one of his many extended stays at the Rice House Diet Center at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. billion in sales when he retired 35 years later. When to take a business public and when to sell.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Restaurant employees can apply online to receive a one-time, $500 check to use toward bills, including housing, transportation, utilities, childcare, groceries, medical bills and/or student loans. The Foundation will administer the grants, offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Live in the U.S., an overseas U.S. state or territory.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 9, 2022

I run my fingers down the spine, or the blunt back of the blade. It’s the start of another day in the kitchen. Seven in the morning and aside from the baker and breakfast cook, I am alone with clip board in hand and my roll bag of knives placed strategically at a workstation. I like to ‘brighten” the edge before I start.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the decades that have followed, places like Alloy (decorative cherry blossoms, pink walls), Model Milk (airy, multilevel dining areas), and Sukiyaki House (sushi counter displaying seafood flown in from Japan) — which offer experiences devoid of steak and ornate dark wood — have continued to change what diners expect of fine dining.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

It was a job and a paycheck, a signal that I wanted to take on some responsibility, and the beginning of a six-decade work ethic, but there were no pats on the back for a choice of careers. We have all heard it before; it is perpetuated in the media, by our politicians, guidance counselors, professors, our peers, and sometimes even parents.

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7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

While you must follow the strict guidelines to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, that’s not to say you can’t take advantage of an empty restaurant to improve your knowledge of restaurant management, running a business, and creating a recipe for success when you eventually get back to business as usual. Published: 2009 ??

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

Updating packaging to account for new ways of getting food from restaurant to car to house to table can increase propensity to re-order significantly. One of Merriam-Webster’s definitions for orchestration is “to arrange or combine so as to achieve a desired or maximum effect.”

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EATER

JUNE 26, 2020

Hopefully, we get them back.”. Many small, independent spots don’t yet have enough work to bring back their employees, particularly those in front-of-house positions. And yet more business didn’t translate to more staff: The 200-seat restaurant still employed fewer than half the workers it had before the pandemic.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 16, 2022

As a cook or chef there are many days that go well and a few that challenge the best. There are times when a service kind of clicks and the night ends without any problems – these are nights that allow you to feel good about what you do and the level of skill that you have built. Your dictionary. Sabrina worked the sauté station.

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EATER

MARCH 23, 2023

Across its many locations, the legendary Pista House, a name nearly synonymous with haleem, prepares around two tons of the dish every day during the holy month. Across its many locations, the legendary Pista House, a name nearly synonymous with haleem, prepares around two tons of the dish every day during the holy month.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The capital, Boise, has led the boom (with a surge in housing prices to match), as remote workers migrated east from the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest in search of more space, cheaper rent, and a quieter lifestyle. New residents brought infusions of cash and interest, but they’re building on the area’s endearing underlying character.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Bay Area, Techamuanvivit was forced to close the original location of Kin Khao, the critically acclaimed Thai restaurant she had opened in 2015 at the Parc 55 Hotel in Union Square. Could you tell me how you raised the money for the original location at the Parc 55 hotel?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. The Main Course. "We always viewed a podcast as a natural extension of the MRM brand," said Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia. "When Restaurant of the Future Panel.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

After a couple years she moved back here as the chef of her current operation. Daniel was different, after two years part-time as a dishwasher, his chef lined him up with an apprenticeship at a fancy hotel in West Virginia. He graduated and was immediately hired to work at another resort hotel in Colorado. Well, Jack.

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EATER

APRIL 4, 2023

Japan launched an immense cleanup effort led by young volunteers, many of whom had originally left Tōhoku to work in bigger cities, who rushed back to help clear debris and shelter displaced families. Tokyo currently holds the record for the city with the highest number of Michelin-starred restaurants in the world. What is Tōhoku cuisine?

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EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Fairmont Banff Springs | Fairmont Resort Hotels. In the 19th century, the Canadian Pacific Railway brought European food cultures and grand lakeside hotels. Over the course of 1,000 miles from the U.S.-Canada To pair with all this natural splendor, there’s equally dazzling Canadian Rocky Mountain cuisine.

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EATER

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Big-name restaurant operators have been co-creating hotels in partnership with developers, however, which in theory is a similar ask. But even imagining a hotel-with-residences feels fundamentally different than something that’s residence-first. MFG is best known for its theatrical, expensive odes to classic American restaurant tropes.

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EATER

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Whistler experienced a boom in Japanese tourism in the ’80s, and though the groups in matching neon outfits headed back to Japan in the early ’90s after the decline of the yen, they left behind a standard of excellence in the town’s sushi restaurants, which have only multiplied since. The glow of nightlife in Whistler.

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