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IMMIGRATION AND THE BUSINESS OF FOOD

Culinary Cues

I wont even attempt to describe what its like to see a beautiful steer or pig step into a dark chamber alive and moments later being cut and quartered, inspected and graded, and passed on to talented meat cutters who in a matter of minutes convert the animal into the retail cuts that you complain about at the checkout.

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No Reservations About Putting Restaurants First

Modern Restaurant Management

"Pre-pandemic, only fine dining establishments typically used tools like prepayments or deposits. Additionally, in partnership with Resy, we support policies and legislation to protect restaurants and diners against reservation scalping by creating a more transparent and equitable dining landscape.

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What Restaurant Operators Need to Know About Music Licensing

Modern Restaurant Management

Music can play a role to enhance the dining experience, setting the mood and complementing the menu and design. We recently surveyed 150 business leaders in retail, hospitality and restaurant and found that only half had some familiarity with music licensing. These fines can range from $750 to $30,000 per infraction.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience.

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Are We at a Culinary Crossroads?

Modern Restaurant Management

Future foodspaces will need to be designed to meet the personalized needs of diverse customer bases, according to Culinary Crossroads: How Societal Shifts Are Defining Tomorrow’s Dining , the latest whitepaper from IA Interior Architects research initiative, HumanX. "The

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MRM Research Roundup: Experimentation, Valentine’s Vibe Shift, and Wine Cork Market

Modern Restaurant Management

Year of Experimentation Square released early insights from its forthcoming annual Future of Commerce report, providing a unique look at the restaurant, retail and beauty industries across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. ” A Year of Challenges U.S. ” A Year of Challenges U.S.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-January 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Full-service restaurant chains, which primarily rely on dine-in customers and had few if any off-premises services when the dine-in restrictions went into effect, bore the brunt of the transaction declines throughout the pandemic. 37 percent of restaurants report outdoor dining as their biggest revenue driver during COVID-19.

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