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Rethinking the Future of Dining Through Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

While Noma’s run as a Michelin restaurant is now at an end, there are many reasons why it doesn’t spell the end of fine dining cuisine as we know it. There’s a high cost in running fine dining restaurants, but the value rests in their place in society.

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Does It Get Better For the Indie Fine Dining Restaurant?

EATER

Chef Russell Jackson opened the fine dining restaurant Reverence in Harlem just months before the pandemic began. Chefs Russell Jackson and Ian Boden struggled to reconcile their visions of fine dining with their communities’ desires. He let out a sigh, rubbing his hands over his face, dusty with five-o’clock shadow.

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How Fine-dine Restaurants Are Overcoming The Challenges Of Omicron

The Restaurant Times

And, throughout the pandemic, which has already been underway for over two years, restaurants have had to make significant adjustments to adapt to the new normal—whether by embracing delivery and takeaway, investing in technology in response to labour shortages, or operating at 50% capacity in line with government regulations.

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OUR DAILY BREATH: OPENING RESTAURANTS ? WHERE?S THE PLAN, STAN?

Culinary Cues

OK – so that doesn’t help much unless we have a plan, a plan that everyone buys into, and a plan that shows hope on both fronts. So the question is – where is the leadership in building such a plan? Where is the real leadership from professional organizations and from the communities where those restaurants reside?

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Death by a Thousand Service Fees

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater After years of artificially low menu prices, service fees feel like an inevitable, annoying part of dining out now If you’re the type of diner who regularly eats at restaurants, you’ve almost assuredly noticed a “service fee” tacked on to your check at one establishment or another.

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Ann Arbor Restaurants To Visit This Weekend

Restaurant Clicks

Knight’s Steakhouse Spencer Frita Batidos Zingerman’s Roadhouse Gandy Dancer Krazy Jim’s Blimpy Burger Mani Osteria & Bar The Chop House Detroit Street Filling Station Vinology Restaurant & Event Space The Earle Restaurant Miss Kim Taste Kitchen Pacific Rim By Kana Bao Boys Sava’s Isalita. Knight’s Steakhouse.

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Picking Fruit and Dodging the Law With Singapore’s Foragers

EATER

From the restaurant’s air-conditioned dining room, she had tasked me with helping gather ingredients for the dinner menu. Foraging in some parts of Singapore is illegal, and perpetrators are subject to fines and jail time. Tiled shophouses surrounded the hill, and beyond, the austere skyline loomed like a glittering tidal wave.