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Master of Wine – 3 Secrets

A Wine Story

Though the two distinct educational programs have the word “Master” in their names, they are completely different educational programs. The Wine and Spirits Educational Trust (WSET) is required. Yet in addition to the above basic costs are the substantial costs of buying wine, traveling to wine regions, and related activities.

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What a Surge in Union Organizing Means for Food and Farm Workers

EATER

Harris said she had been thinking about poverty wages for food workers and broader inequities for years, but like dozens of others around the country, she was finally inspired to act in December, when a group of employees in Buffalo, New York, successfully unionized the first Starbucks. Now, it’s bigger than that , she said. Frederic J.

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The State of New York Restaurants in 2020

7 Shifts

The restaurants who received the funding agreed to pay all employees non-tipped minimum wage, plus their tips as the restaurant returns to regular operations, and agreed to serve at least 500 free meals to New Yorkers affected by COVID-19. Keep your staff safe with Employee Health Check to ensure nobody is coming to work sick.

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The Tasting Menu at the End of the World

EATER

Most restaurants don’t own and control the majority of the links in their supply chains, but many are already dealing with climate-related issues, even if at a remove, whether it be the droughts and floods that ravage Midwestern farmland or the hurricanes that seasonally batter the Gulf Coast of the United States.

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A Fool’s Choice

EATER

Throughout, she relates her own narrative and relationship to food to those of her mother and grandmothers. No matter how much I had studied and obsessed over baking, that was a wholly private — even emotional — education. Even in my TradeWinds experience, I had never seen this world before.

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MRM People & Places: Game On at Walk-On’s and Gingerbread Houses for Humanity

Modern Restaurant Management

“In hosting SOBEWFF® each year, we continue to further our commitment to hospitality education, which is paramount to us as a Company,” said Wayne Chaplin, Chief Executive Officer, Southern Glazer’s.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-November 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the number of employees in the industry growing by 2.6 There was some relief for restaurants in the form of rolling 12-month turnover for hourly, non-management employees declining slightly during September. The industry grew its same-store sales by 1.0 percent in October.

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