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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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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

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Combining our backgrounds in tech, automation, and culinary fine dining, we knew we could fill this void to give more people access to healthy, high-quality food.” The robotic kitchen runs on batteries instead of a diesel generator. Door Dash Shared Kitchen. ?DoorDash?

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

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” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. First and foremost, most restaurants are going to see a huge drop-off in the number of customers who dine in.

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#LifeOrDeathRecipe Challenge and ‘A Woman’s Place’

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. “Over the last century, women, despite their incredible contributions, have struggled to make it in professional kitchens — held back by inequalities unfairly put upon them,” said Rob Sundy, Head of Brand Marketing & Creative Studios at Whirlpool Corporation, the parent company of the KitchenAid brand.

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

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Over his first 10 years at Stone Barns, he built a flourishing, 10-acre organic vegetable farm using compost and rotational planting to feed the soil. The first [apprentice] program I did, tractor safety was drilled in,” says Michael Passalacqua, a 2018 apprentice who’d done a certificate program through the University of Vermont. “I

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The 20/20 on 2020: Restaurant Experts Weigh In

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They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. Rick Camac, Dean of Restaurant & Hospitality Management at the Institute of Culinary Education. Ghost Kitchens. Jim Collins, CEO at Kitchen United.

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The Tasting Menu at the End of the World

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SingleThread has been hailed as the pinnacle of farm-to-table dining. When they finally decided to escape the deteriorating air quality, Kyle and Katina Connaughton packed their two cats, two dogs, and one of their two daughters (the other was in Boston) and her fiance into a farm truck and headed toward safety in Washington state.

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