EATER

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

William A. Morgan/Shutterstock Americas Classics honors locally owned restaurants that have timeless appeal and mark the real start of Beards season James Beard Awards season is here! After revealing the long list of 2025 Restaurant and Chef Awards semifinalists last month, today, the foundation names the recipients of its Americas Classics Awards.

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SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Joe Nicholson was a manager and tech consultant at one of the busiest restaurants in Sacramento, CA—Tower Cafe. Now, as a copywriter at SpotOn, he helps restaurant owners and managers learn how to run a more profitable operation. Restaurant P&L statements can be downright confusing. Prime costs. Contribution margins. Direct operating expenses.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

A Deeper Dive: Dawn Kane, CEO of Hot Dish Advertising, joins the restaurant finance podcast to talk about Starbucks, Chilis and the best strategies to break through the marketing clutter.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Nicole Medina/Eater Keep your blade sharp, your bowl clean, and your motor running A food processor is the ultimate workhorse: It shreds cheese, dices peppers, effortlessly turns chickpeas into a silky hummus, and does it all with an almost smug efficiency. Its the best thing in your kitchen. Until, that is, its time to disassemble and clean it. Cleaning a food processor can be a nightmare wrapped in a puzzle, wrapped in the very real possibility of slicing off a small portion of your hand.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As other limited-service brands struggle to maintain traffic, the fast-casual chain's year-end results demonstrated "strength and resilience.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

How Clemente Bar, a cocktail bar above Eleven Madison Park, developed its five-course $225 menu, according to its beverage director.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Are your customers always asking to take home some extras of your salsa, BBQ sauce, or house salad dressing? Do you think there might be a market to actually sell it; first at your restaurant and then to local retailers/grocers but you have no idea where do you start? Do you just make “extra batches” and bottle it in your restaurant kitchen and slap a label on it?

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The coffee shop chain is removing 13 drinks from its offerings on Tuesday and plans more cuts as it culls 30% of its menu by this fall.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

A last-minute bottle of wine feels boring compared to a pickle crock, pasta-water-scented candle, or whole ham leg Housewarming gifts are tricky. They are tricky by scale: larger than a host gift, smaller than a wedding gift. And they are tricky by kind: housewarming gifts should be practical and also personal both to the person giving the gift and to the household receiving it.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Late to the game but offering something different, the fast-casual chain expects to launch its Perks program in March.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

The Salt

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Chef Inunnguaq Hegelund is working to preserve Greenland's Indigenous food traditions by giving importance to ingredients and how they are sourced. He calls this new Arctic cuisine.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The change is part of a wholesale turnaround plan at the struggling steak chain that also includes a new marketing strategy and slower unit development.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The CEO of Wonder is pushing to change the restaurant business. But he has bigger goals than that, including a superapp that could choose all your meals.

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Technology 179

Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Taste Tracker: Einstein Bros. does bagels Southern-style; a Mediterranean collab for Velvet Taco; Scooters, Krak Boba and Sonic pick strawberries for sipping; toasted sandwiches arrive at Jimmy Johns; and more menu news of the week.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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