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Why Training is the Key to Accurate Messaging About Gluten-Free Foodservice

Modern Restaurant Management

Although restaurants are increasingly interested in meeting the needs of gluten-free consumers, there’s plenty of room for improvement in the messaging used to communicate about gluten-free options. When staff are unable to answer basic questions about your gluten-free menu, or ask inappropriate questions of guests who inquire about gluten-free options, consumers may have doubts about your ability to ensure their safety or prepare a dish that meets their dietary needs.

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The restaurant worker most in demand? A great general manager

Restaurant Business

More than ever before, restaurant operators are focusing on recruiting, retaining and developing talent for this key position, which many say is the heart of any successful operation.

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How Cookie Jars Capture American Kitsch

EATER

Cookie jars from CB2, BBC Ice Cream x Todd James, Supreme x Pillsbury, World Market, Hazy Mae, Williams-Sonoma, and Modigliani. | Lille Allen/Eater The cookie jar continues to be a vessel for cheeky self expression, if not for cookies themselves Recipes, money, written affirmations, and receipts. That’s what Hazy Mae keeps in her ceramic cookie jars.

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Reef closes more ghost kitchens as it shifts focus to tech

Restaurant Business

The company is operating fewer delivery-only food trailers and instead working to license the technology behind them.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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99: 5th Pillar: Talking about Avenues to Grow with Kathleen Overman

Food Business

We dig into the fifth pillar of a successful business: avenues and distribution to bring product to market. Going deep with the Six Pillars of Success as a method for business owners to roadmap change and stability into their business. The Six Pillars are Brand Strategy, Financial Stability, Operations, Product Quality, Avenues & Distribution, and Hospitality.

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America’s Test Kitchen Lays Off 23 Employees, Shuts Down ATK Kids

EATER

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Jury Awards Former Rancho Gordo Temp Worker More Than $250K in Discrimination Lawsuit

EATER

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Yum or yuck? Rating Starbucks new olive oil-infused coffee

Restaurant Business

Two RB editors sampled the coffee chain's Oleato line of beverages to see whether the combination works. Here’s what they think.

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A Kroger-Albertsons Merger Would Be Bad for Almost Everyone

EATER

Kroger and Albertsons own more than 5,000 supermarkets across the country. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Why a coalition called Stop the Merger plans to “fight like hell” to prevent it It’s likely that the place you shop for groceries every week is owned by one of two companies — Kroger, or Albertsons. Together, these two corporate behemoths own more than 5,000 supermarkets across the country, including regional chains like King Soopers, Harris Teeter, Safeway, Ralphs, and Vons, and now they’r

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Starbucks' new CEO vows to work monthly inside the chain's coffee shops

Restaurant Business

Laxman Narasimhan, who took over for Howard Schultz this week, promised to work a half-day shift as a barista inside one of its coffee shops each month "to keep us close to the culture and our customers.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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Coffee News Recap, 24 Mar: Winners of first-ever Global Coffee Awards announced at PRF El Salvador, Starbucks welcomes new CEO as workers strike at over 100 US locations & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

Every Friday, Perfect Daily Grind rounds up the top coffee industry news from the previous week. Here are this week’s stories. Mon, 20 Mar PRF El Salvador announces winners of 2023 Salvadoran Barista Championship, Salvadoran Brewers Cup, Toddy Cold Brew Coffee Championship, and Global Roasting Contest. All four competitions took place at the two-day forum on 16 and 17 March 2023: Carlos Cubias was announced as the 2023 Salvadoran Barista Champion, while Alejandro Méndez placed first at the 2023

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What unionized Starbucks employees are demanding in their contracts

Restaurant Business

Working Lunch: The big ask is for a guarantee of 37 scheduled hours per week, set months in advance.

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