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

Culinary Cues

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? Oh, but what if customers don’t want to return to dining rooms? When that occurs we will be able to go back to business as usual – right?

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P.F. Chang’s To Go and Wing Squad Delivers

Modern Restaurant Management

Under Allen’s leadership, this C-suite team has been instrumental in implementing a multi-faceted transformation plan designed to ensure long-term sustainability, enhance brand relevance, accelerate innovation, improve guest satisfaction, increase overall profitability and create a clear growth plan to propel the company forward.

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CHOOSE TO BE GREAT

Culinary Cues

When you walk through the dining room and observe service and interactions between staff and guests, what do you see? We can take impeccable care of our chef uniform and careless about washing our hands for 20 seconds. Some have professionally printed signage and others find a magic marker and irregular print to be just fine.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Combining our backgrounds in tech, automation, and culinary fine dining, we knew we could fill this void to give more people access to healthy, high-quality food.” “Plant-based dining is not a fad that is going away. ” Presto Vision is currently being piloted at Outback Steakhouse. Honeywell and Xerox Corp.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

Under Barb’s leadership, TSFR’s Del Taco restaurants consistently broke system wide sales records and TSFR was named franchisee of the year two years in a row. Restaurant and Chef and Leadership award categories will continue to have no fees for entry. Barb also served on the Operations Advisory Committee for Del Taco.

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WARNING: Restaurant Culture In Crisis

Embrace the Suck

I had a couple of events, private events, corporate dining events, and there were two more left on the book. In leadership, and you and I both agree on this, leadership is critical, especially right now in restaurants. Leadership again, what's your feeling or belief on, do you believe in self care for leaders?

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For Trans People in the Service Industry, Discrimination Is an Unfortunate Reality of the Job

EATER

Niko Prytula, a nonbinary person who lives in Virginia, only recently stopped working in food service after eight years, most recently at a fine dining establishment with extremely formal practices. At most of their jobs, they were never open about their gender identity. “I