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Hawai?i’s Mushroom Boom Is Here

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He plucks them from composted wood chips nestled in cardboard boxes, and carefully puts them in a clean new box. Yang smiles as he shows off his heaping compost pile: He says he reclaims three to five tons of organic green waste every few weeks to produce substrate, the woody equivalent of soil, for his mushrooms.

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The 19 Most Funnest, Most Wildest, Most Unbelievably Extra Restaurants in America

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Because when dining out is also your night out, the food is just the start. The dining room and in-the-round bar are forever dark, and what light there is shines only on graffiti-stained walls and deeply carved wooden tables set below ramshackle roofs. I mean, yeah, sure, but what’s the fun in that? remain nonnegotiable.

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

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" Pandemic Pivots Become Permanent The temporary "pivots" developed during the pandemic — expanded delivery services, outdoor dining options, to-go alcohol offerings, and investments in technology — are the foundation of the industry's "new normal."

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

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Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. Expect for casual dining, upscale casual and fine dining to have abysmal sales and traffic growth numbers.

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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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Organic Waste Recycling for Foodservice: What You Need To Know

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Composting can be considered a form of recycling. A compostable item is a certain type of biodegradable item that breaks down relatively quickly into humus , a substance that enriches soil. An extensive list of composting terms and their definitions can be found here. all organic matter) for soil amendments.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

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.” Key highlights of updates and changes resulting from the audit include: To ensure values alignment within organization and among stakeholders: Revised, value-centered mission statement and definition of a James Beard Award winner. It's definitely been a game changer for us.

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