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AMERICAN RESTAURANTS – AN INTERESTING EVOLUTION

Culinary Cues

PART ONE: An Immigrant Nation Melting Pot: America was the land of opportunity and tens of thousands came to our shores, through Ellis Island, and stood at the gates of New York ready to become American and bring their ethnic influence the country’s profile.

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Restaurateurs, Are You Engaging Gen Z?

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With this much influence, restaurants need to woo Gen Z inside their doors. Are you engaging in influencer marketing? Where previous generations responded to celebrity marketing and influence, Gen Z is much more receptive to more relatable social influencers. Influencers. Micro-influencers. Celebrities.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

In the short term, it’s QSR that will experience labor improvement, then fast-casual. Times have certainly changed for the everyday restaurant owner as hyper-connectivity and busy lifestyles continue to influence consumer behavior and where society eats. Restaurants will become increasingly casual.

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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2008: Cereal Milk launches an empire Christina Tosi invented or popularized a number of household-name desserts — Compost Cookies, Crack Pie ( now Milk Bar Pie ), naked cakes — but her Cereal Milk, which she initially developed at Wylie Dufresne’s wd~50, reshaped the dessert world.

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Orange Is the New Yolk

EATER

As chefs like Momofuku’s David Chang moved towards a more casual aesthetic, eggs began to colonize menus along with offal, bacon, and doughnuts. Some farms with heavy composting operations or lots of pigs will raise chickens atop compost and manure piles, “and that has its own flavor” that it imparts on the eggs, Bianco says. “It

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The 20/20 on 2020: Restaurant Experts Weigh In

Modern Restaurant Management

For example, we may see other categories beyond fast casual, quick serve and family dining begin to emerge, such as our company building a new category of “Craft Casual.” One of the biggest trends I expect to emerge in 2020 is new, creative service models as restaurants continue to compete for both guests and employees.

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

Modern Restaurant Management

" At least 4 in 10 operators in each of the three limited-service segments — quickservice, fast casual, and coffee and snack — believe the addition of drive-thru lanes will become more common in 2023. For others, outdoor dining and alcohol-to-go are becoming table stakes.

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