EATER

APRIL 7, 2025

Lille Allen/Eater While major egg producers have struggled with avian flu, smaller egg farmers have found new demand Last November, Mike Trent, the owner of Trent Family Farms in Cloverdale, Oregon, started to notice that egg prices were going to get crazy. As the avian influenza crisis worsened among major egg producers across the country and prices began to trend upward, Trent knew that 2025 wasnt going to be a normal year for eggs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2025

It’s no secret that restaurants with more than one location depend on standardization to thrive. A customer in Miami should bite into the same perfectly seasoned burger that delights diners in Seattle. Reliable experiences build brand loyalty, and systemic processes lead to reliable profit margins. As chain restaurants continue to integrate new technologies into their daily operations, store-to-store standardization of these technologies is often an afterthought.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 7, 2025

Its a question on the minds of most chefs, restaurateurs, and culinary educators: What will the next generation of cooks and chefs look like? We (those who have invested decades in the business already) may complain about the current labor environment and question the level of commitment from a younger pool of candidates but I have rarely heard anyone attempt to define how it will all wash out.

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EATER

APRIL 7, 2025

Eater Video Chef Henji Cheung mixes Chinese ingredients with European technique for earthy truffle dumplings and branzino with chili sauce What we do here is like an East meets West cuisine, says Henji Cheung, the James Beard-nominated co-owner and executive chef at Queens English in Washington D.C. The Hong Kong-influenced cuisine is created with Asian ingredients, but with European techniques, reflecting Cheungs background of growing up in the British territory and working in Italian and Frenc

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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.

Black Box Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2025

Out of the Box: February 2025 In This Issue: The Big Picture: Sales and Traffic Trends February 2025 Restaurant Industry Performance Trends In Detail Segment Focus QSR: Current Performance Trends -2.5% Comp Sales -5.7% Comp Traffic February 2025 Restaurant Industry Trends The Big Picture: Sales and Traffic Trends Restaurant performance in early 2025 is shaping up to be a tale of contrast, confusion, and caution.

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Restaurant Business

APRIL 7, 2025

The Bottom Line: Several struggling restaurant chains are using franchising as a key strategy to turn their brands around. But if the restaurants didnt work under a company-run operation, why would franchisees do better?

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Restaurant Business

APRIL 7, 2025

Pickles pop up in everything from wing glazes to lemonade on Popeyes Pickle Menu, available for a limited time at the fast-food chicken chain. But its not the only brand with pickle-mania.

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EATER

APRIL 7, 2025

Idit Narkis Katz/Flickr A crash course in the sweet ritual relish Each spring on the eve of the first day of Passover, Jews around the world partake in a feast known as the Seder. The celebration is an opportunity for families to gather around the table and enjoy a meal while honoring Jewish prayers, history, and traditions. While each of the ritual foods served at the feast hold symbolic significance, the preparation and use of charoset has evolved as the Jewish diaspora spread across the globe

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Restaurant Business

APRIL 7, 2025

Jimmy Johns, Moes Southwest Grill, Fuzzys, IHOP, Dunkin, Whataburger, Sonic and Chip City Cookies headline restaurant menu news.

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EATER

APRIL 7, 2025

Egg cartons can be surprisingly confusing This post originally appeared in an edition of Whats the Difference? , a weekly newsletter for the curious and confused by New York City writer Brette Warshaw. Eater will be publishing all editions that parse food-related differences, though those hardly scratch the surface of the worlds (and the newsletters) curiosities: Sign up to get Whats the Difference?

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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

APRIL 7, 2025

Tech Check: Restaurants have tried for years to get consumers to order direct. Those efforts may finally be paying off.

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EATER

APRIL 7, 2025

Eater Staff Ive spotted major deals on Boos cutting boards, Staub Dutch ovens, Smeg toasters, and more name-brand heavy-hitters Listen its never not a good time to shop for deals. But, given the tariff-looming chatter of late, it feels like an especially opportune moment to find great deals while prices are low, and thats why were here to let you know that there are hundreds of name-brand-heavy kitchen and cookware deals at Wayfair right now, with some over 78 percent off.

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Restaurant Business

APRIL 7, 2025

The chairman of the owner of Steak n Shake has made an offer to buy the fast-food chicken chain and entered into a confidentiality agreement with the company as negotiations continue.

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EATER

APRIL 7, 2025

Five years after closing Nightshade, chef Mei Lin starts her next chapter with a Chinese fine dining restaurant

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Leadership

Restaurant Clicks

APRIL 7, 2025

Easter is the perfect time to enjoy delicious meals with family and friends, but you can still keep things healthy without missing out on flavor. If you’re looking for lighter alternatives to traditional Easter recipes, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ve gathered a list of the best healthy Easter recipes that are easy to make and full of fresh, wholesome ingredients.

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Hot Schedules

APRIL 7, 2025

Explore 25 AI tools disrupting the restaurant industry in 2025. From automated scheduling to reducing waste, learn how these tools improve efficiency, lower labor costs, and drive growth with real-life examples.

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Black Box Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2025

Monthly Second Helping: Can Spring Weather Save Traffic? This winter was cold. And the restaurant industry felt it. According to weather.com , 2025 had the coldest January in 37 years. And although February wasnt breaking any longtime records, it was 0.6 degrees colder than the 40-year average. And a whopping 6 degrees colder than last year (February 2024 was unseasonably warm.

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EATER

APRIL 7, 2025

The fateful pina coladas | Fabio Lovino/HBO The shows third season finale left a more bitter taste in our mouths than those pia coladas Spoilers for seasons 2 and 3 of The White Lotus within. On Sunday night, the third season of Mike Whites prestige HBO drama The White Lotus came to a conclusion. Now, we know exactly who died, who killed them, and who survived the week at the lush Thai resort, and the shows sleuthy fans can stop posting their deranged theories about the shows complicated symboli

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Leadership

Restaurant Business

APRIL 7, 2025

Working Lunch: This week's political podcast features a conversation with Andy Wiederhorn, founder and chair of Fat Brands, who shares the challenges the trade war will create for franchise operators, their supply chain and plans for growth.

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EATER

APRIL 7, 2025

Eggs have been having a very strange year. Lets talk about it. Eggs, in a fundamental biological sense, are life. They are also having a very strange year. In January, the cost of eggs jumped 15 percent. A month later, eggs experienced their largest price jump since 1980. This surge in prices was, of course, due to the ongoing avian flu epidemic: From December through February alone, almost 54 million chickens were slaughtered after being exposed to the virus.

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