Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Full Course’s Founder and CEO Lauren Fernandez and Chief People + Culture Officer Lissa Bowen provide perspectives on the state of the restaurant industry with a particular focus on capital spend, pent-up deal flow, and labor challenges. Shortage of Capital for Restaurant Technology As we marched into 2023, interest rates and uncertain economic conditions continued to impact the withdrawal capital from restaurant technology investments.

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The Restaurant Group

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In 2023, the restaurant industry faced challenges and opportunities in the lingering aftermath of the COVID crisis, with the impact further shaped by emerging 2023 food trends. As the public welcomed a new sense of normalcy, restaurants scrambled not just to survive but also to grow and recover from the impact of the setback. The good news is people were eager to go back to restaurants and experience the flavors and freedom of dining out again.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Three ways to ease the adversarial relationship between your staff and your technology. There’s a feeling of tension and anxiety among many restaurant workers these days. Interestingly enough, the very source of a lot of this tension — technology — can also be the solution. When thoughtfully deployed, restaurant tech can help make restaurants a better place to work, which is good for everyone involved: patrons, employees, and operators.

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EATER

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Zabar’s is a beloved local destination for just about everything Open since 1934, New York grocery landmark Zabar’s sells over 4,000 pounds of smoked fish and 8,000 pounds of coffee a week. “That’s a lot of f **g coffee to sell for one store,” says general manager Scott Goldshine, who has been in charge of operations at Zabar’s for over 30 years. “Not a chain — this is just one location, one store.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I know, I know – New Year’s Resolutions seem to be a waste of time. We all make them and rarely stick to the plan. But lack of execution should never get in the way of planning, dreaming, and setting goals. As Lewis Carroll proclaimed in Alice in Wonderland: “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” So rather than stepping into 2024 without a roadmap and wandering aimlessly for 12 months – it only makes sense to establish a plan, some goals (a few of them lofty) and m

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Buzztime Business

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Are you hungry for more trivia? Is one night of bar trivia per week not enough to satiate your senses? Buzztime has tens of thousands of questions in its database. Pub trivia hosts and players could spend a lifetime with them! However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure. Events that are important one year become irrelevant many years later.

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EATER

DECEMBER 29, 2023

FX/Chuck Hodes “The Bear,” “Great British Bake Off,” Mario Batali’s Zoom class. there was a lot of good and a lot of bad TV in 2023 2023 was the year of The Bear. The FX/Hulu show inspired everything from unexpected thirst traps to real-life $31 Italian beef sandwiches to gasp-worthy responses to an altered Chicago deep-dish pizza. But what else were Eater editors watching (and sometimes hate-watching) this year?

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The Salt

DECEMBER 29, 2023

James Beard award-winning chef Alexis Nikole Nelson harvests wild food while building a community of plants and people.

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EATER

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Chefs in the kitchen at Warlord in Chicago. | Chris Peters/Eater Chicago Irish strawberries, hibiscus-dusted popcorn, a good slice of layer cake, and other things that surprised out while dining out this year Throughout this week, we’ve been taking a look back at the year in eating , the good and the bad and delightfully extraneous. To close out the year, here are the things that Eater editors were pleasantly surprised by in 2023 — from unexpected award wins to the welcome re-emergence of nostal

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The Salt

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Non-alcoholic spirit sales grew more than 100% in the last year. So for the annual All Things Considered holiday cocktail interview, we're visiting a completely alcohol-free bar in D.C.

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The Salt

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Bernetta McKindra is the granddaughter of Henry Perry, known as the "father of Kansas City barbecue." She reflects on her family's culinary legacy.

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