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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

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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.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Currying Up Favor and Committed Taco

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Curry Up Now also limits their disposal waste by using real plates, silverware and cloth napkins in-house and packaging all to-go orders in recyclable and compostable containers. Taco Bell committed to making all consumer-facing packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025 worldwide. Taco Bell's 2020 Commitments.

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MRM People & Places: Game On at Walk-On’s and Gingerbread Houses for Humanity

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A team of 18 FIU students aid in recruiting year-round through outreach, interviews, and on-site volunteer management, working closely with Festival event managers on event staffing details. The small eat-in eatery has 19 seats and take-out and delivery are available. Compostable cutlery will be available this summer.

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

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Across all six major segments, more than 9 in 10 operators plan to continue offering outdoor seating and the same number of operators are also likely to continue offering alcohol-to-go, if their jurisdiction allows it. Only one in ten operators think recruiting and retaining employees will be easier in 2023 than it was in 2022.

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

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Restaurant design footprint will fundamentally change with more BOH kitchen size needed and less FOH seats as more people gravitate toward digital and delivery. Larger box restaurants will be disrupted as the competition for dining seats continues to grow over the next decade. The sleeping giant is virtual kitchens.

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

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SevenRooms customers will be able to tap into TheFork’s extensive consumer reservation network of millions of diners, helping them to fill their seats and acquire new customers. Module 4: Recruitment and Onboarding. Module 2: Self Awareness and Self-Management. Module 3: Communication. Module 6: Wellbeing.

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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. Partly through his efforts in improving soil health , Stone Barns established itself as one of the shining lights of the regenerative agriculture movement.