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Alain.AI: Creating a Chef’s Digital Twin

Modern Restaurant Management

Alain Coumont founded Le Pain Quotidien focused on organic ingredients and the brand is now adding a new ingredient to the mix: artifical intelligence. Partnering with November Five, Le Pain Quotidien launched Alain.AI, a tool that can be called the world's first digital twin of a chef-founder and used to help with menu development, recipe standardization, and culinary innovation. "As a restaurant business, we use AI to go faster and to develop the business further," Annick Van Overs

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How Walmart Got Its Hands on the Coolest Pantry Brands

EATER

Lille Allen Brands like Fly By Jing and Bachan’s are reaching a whole new audience from the shelves of the ultimate big-box store The last decade or so has been a golden era for cool food products sold directly to consumers online. Think of Fly By Jing, the wildly popular Sichuan chile crisp, or Magic Spoon, the grain-free, low-carb cereal that’s earned a cult following.

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7 Proven Ways to Raise Table Turnover Rate

7 Shifts

It’s no secret that more customers equals higher revenue. However, with fewer customers dining out weekly , restaurants must ensure that they can serve each diner quickly and satisfy them enough that they’ll want to return. Table turnover rate is a crucial factor to consider if you want to provide efficient service. Tracking and implementing strategies to improve this metric will allow you to maximize your dining space and generate more revenue.

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Get ready for convenience-store consolidation to pose a growing restaurant threat

Restaurant Business

Retail Watch: Circle K’s owner wants to buy 7-Eleven’s owner, as well as the regional GetGo convenience chain. The deals will likely fuel even more fast-food competition.

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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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How to Make Your Restaurant More Efficient 

Next Restaurants

By Alexandra Sheehan, Contributor Running a restaurant involves a lot of moving parts. It can be difficult to stay on top of everything, let alone make sure you’re optimized to run as efficiently as possible. But that’s why it’s so important to run an efficient restaurant —because things can get so unwieldy so quickly. Restaurant efficiency is about more than just doing things as quickly as possible.

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From Good to Great - How to Revolutionize Your Restaurant's Service Delivery

TastyIgniter

Revolutionize your restaurant's service delivery and boost customer satisfaction with these strategies: understand customer expectations, enhance service quality, optimize food quality, streamline operations, create a customer-centric culture, leverage technology, and measure satisfaction. Transform your restaurant from good to great and ensure long-term success.

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Ohio Minimum Wage Guide 2024

SpotOn

Ohio's minimum wage increases with the inflation rate, thanks to a 2006 ballot initiative. Per the ballot initiative, the state minimum wage increases every January 1. The minimum wage increase is based on the consumer price index during the 12-month period before September 30. In 2006, Ohio voters approved the ballot measure that raised the state minimum wage to $6.85 per hour from $5.15, with a wage increase adjusted annually.

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At This Legendary D.C. Lounge, Cocktails Arrive With a Side of Political Satire

EATER

Across from the White House, the legendary Off the Record lounge serves cocktails with a side of political satire

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Batched delivery orders take longer, hurt food quality

Restaurant Business

Secret shoppers in a study from Intouch Insight were far less satisfied when their meal arrived after others were dropped off along the way—a common practice for apps like DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub.

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Beyoncé’s New Whiskey Is an Ode to Her Texas Roots

EATER

Beyoncé’s bold new Texas whiskey SirDavis pays tribute to her great-grandfather, who was a farmer and a moonshiner in the South

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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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The company that bought Corner Bakery has sued Boston Market

Restaurant Business

SSCP Restaurant Investors, which bought Corner Bakery last year, is accusing former owner Jay Pandya and his Boston Market chain of "shocking, systemic breaches of fiduciary duties.

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Old Bay Belongs on Everything

EATER

Lille Allen Crab’s favorite seasoning is more versatile than you might think There’s always a bit of an eye roll when out-of-staters reduce Marylanders to crabs, Old Bay , and our perhaps inordinate love of the state’s flag. The thing is, they’re not wrong. Picking crabs is a coveted tradition where I come from, one that every family big or small, acquired or chosen, looks forward to when summer rolls around.

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Why activist investors are so interested in restaurants right now

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: Sardar Biglari kicked off the latest proxy this week with another one against Cracker Barrel. But it isn’t the only one as shareholders grow antsy with underwhelming stock performances.

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This Shirazi Salad Recipe Goes With Every Meal

EATER

Justin Tsucalas The medley or cucumbers, tomatoes, shallots, and herbs is impossible to beat “If there ever was a national Iranian salad, it would be the Shirazi salad,” writes Leila Heller in her cookbook, Persian Feasts , which comes out in September. This salad originates from the city of Shiraz in the southwestern part of Iran, but its reach is global: you can easily find it at every Persian restaurant across the U.S.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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Earnings roundup: Black Rifle Coffee, Steak 'n Shake, Bombshells

Restaurant Business

The second quarter was apparently no kinder to smaller cap public restaurant companies than it was to the big players. Here's a look at three with decidedly mixed results.

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A No-Bake Hazelnut Fudge Recipe Inspired by a Beloved Maryland Cake

EATER

Justin Tsucalas Jinji Fraser looked to Smith Island when creating this simple recipe for chocolate fudge If you observe it carefully, chocolate can tell a story. At least that’s what Jinji Fraser, the founder of Baltimore’s Jinji Chocolate , believes. “I always say that making chocolate is so little of what we do,” Fraser says. “It’s the end part of a very long process between traveling and sourcing and communicating — there’s all these things along the way that serve the story of chocolate maki

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Pumpkin spice season, New York's month-long 'restaurant week' and summer menu pricing

Restaurant Business

Menu Talk: Pat and Bret discuss the latest trends and share an interview with Chopped champion Paco Moran, executive chef of Loreto in Los Angeles.

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Is It Okay to Lick My Fingers at a Crab Boil? 

EATER

Michael Hoeweler When your hands are covered in Old Bay and crab fat, your options are limited Welcome to Rules of Consumption, a column where Eater staff writer Amy McCarthy answers any and all questions you have regarding dining etiquette. Have a conundrum? Email advice@eater.com for answers. Dear Amy, I grew up in the Midwest, a place sadly lacking in crab boils, and moved to Maryland about a decade ago.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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Domino's enlists Simon Cowell to highlight its quality

Restaurant Business

The television personality known for judging talent is appearing in a new ad focusing on the pizza chain’s quality assurance.

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A Shrimp Bao Bun Recipe to Spice Up Your Summer Party 

EATER

Who needs shrimp salad when you can have Ekiben’s Old Bay shrimp bao buns with mango-papaya slaw? The humble shrimp salad is almost as much of a Mid-Atlantic staple as a crab cake or soft shell sandwich. Generally a combination of mayo, spices, onion, and celery, shrimp salad is easy to whip up on a scorching summer day and delectable with Ritz crackers or sandwiched between a potato roll.

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The No Taxes on Tips issue refuses to go away

Restaurant Business

Working Lunch: Its appeal as a policy talking point is going to mandate some sort of action when tax changes are taken up next year, regardless of which party wins in November.

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Rustichella D’Abruzzo And More

Sante

What is the difference between your run-of-the-mill pasta and an artisanal pasta? We met with Piero Peduzzi of Rustichella D’Abruzzo Continue Reading The post Rustichella D’Abruzzo And More appeared first on Santé Food Wine Spirits.

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How to Set Better OKRs and Drive Results

Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.

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Everything You Need to Host the Ultimate Crab Feast

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater Crackers, mallets, boilers, and a stash of Natty Boh The best part of a crab feast is getting your hands dirty. Sure, you have to work for your food, but you get plenty of fun tools to do it with, not to mention a delicious reward for your efforts. And where else in civil society is it appropriate to show up to a backyard party with a mallet?

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