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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

EATER

While staff did work with local, seasonal, unique ingredients, servers and cooks alike say they grew uncomfortable telling stories about some of the restaurant’s sourcing and preparation practices, including for a number of its signature dishes, which they considered misleading. This story contains a detailed account of a sexual assault.

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How to Reduce and Track Restaurant Food Waste

Xtra Chef

Incorrect or inconsistent kitchen training can lead to larger portion sizes than planned. Those projections, along with seasonal recipe modifications, should be used to better anticipate what you’ll actually use. Food waste is a serious environmental and humanitarian issue. What Causes Restaurant Food Waste? Food Spillage.

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How to Reduce Food Waste in Restaurants: 16 Practical Tips

Touch Bistro

The best way to do this is to create a food waste tracker (this can be as simple as a hard copy sheet of paper) to account for all of your front- and back-of-house waste for a given period of time, such as one week. Running a foodservice operation involves a lot of moving parts. Different Types of Restaurant Food Waste.

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

Modern Restaurant Management

A Return to Normal The National Restaurant Association released its 2023 State of the Restaurant Industry report, which examines key factors impacting the industry including the current state of the economy, operations, workforce, and food and menu trends to forecast sales and market trends for the year ahead. million by the end of 2023.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the great gift of a restaurant gift card, learning about event professionals, top QSR traffic and digital ordering strategies. Holiday Traffic Not Enough. Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. Same-store sales growth was 1.6

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Additionally, while other smoothie establishments use gallons of water to clean each blender, Ono’s patent-pending automated self-cleaning blender and robotic systems use 28x less water because it only needs to clean the blade and because it’s blended in the customer’s compostable cup. Ono Food Co.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Currying Up Favor and Committed Taco

Modern Restaurant Management

Ingredients are clean and sourced from local vendors whenever possible, and the menu is designed to support vegan, gluten-free, and Halal diets in an effort to accommodate all guests, no matter their dietary preferences. Curry Up Now attracted a new investment from seed-stage venture capital firm Liquid 2 Ventures (L2V). Select U.S.

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