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What Hotel Menu Trends Will Define 2022?

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Partnering with local alcoholic industries like craft breweries, liquor manufacturers, and vineyards for activities like beer flights and parings to dishes is generally a hit and potentially caters to younger and upscale diners. Related Posts. Throwing out unpopular food and beverage is simply throwing money into the trash!

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The State of New York Restaurants in 2020

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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. The program ultimately supported 95 restaurants and 1,000 workers in the industry.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant labor costs are rising as the industry attempts to lure back employees who were laid off or voluntarily left the workforce during the pandemic. Food service and drinking places had 12 million employees in February 2020, but the number employed in the industry declined nearly 50 percent to 6.4 percent, compared with 3.1

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

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The brand recently launched its philanthropic arm – aptly named the Game On Foundation – to support youth sports facilities in the communities it serves. “Providing a sense of community is a top priority in every market we serve,” said Brandon Landry, who founded Walk-On’s in 2003.

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The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

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The one thing that all of these films have in common is that they depict food, dining, cooking, or eating in relatable, often visceral ways. The film is grotesque, and if I’m being ungenerous, I’d go as far as to say it serves no purpose beyond provoking disgust in its audience.

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A Fool’s Choice

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Throughout, she relates her own narrative and relationship to food to those of her mother and grandmothers. All the while, on the east side of town, there was a restaurant serving classic French food, simple and fresh and perfectly executed. It was f **g terrifying. And thrilling. And I was proving to be f **g terrible at it.

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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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