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From Ghost Kitchens to Living Kitchens: A New Vision for Food Service’s Next Great Space

Modern Restaurant Management

Ghost kitchens, you’ve got spirit, but not much soul. Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Not up for opening your own off-site kitchen?

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-November 2020 Edition

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Among the highlights: Online Ordering sales of pizza (+9 percent), burgers (+10 percent), and fried chicken (+5 percent) were up from last year, but the largest trend in online ordering was sandwiches and wraps as guests give up on slapping bread together at home and restaurants pivot to menu items that travel well. The sheer convenience.

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Ghost Lemonade, Robotic Barista and Flippy for Sale

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Miso Robotics launched global commercial availability of the Flippy Robot-on-a-Rail (ROAR) – a zero-footprint, cost-efficient intelligent robotic kitchen assistant for the evolving commercial kitchen. With Flippy ROAR, production speeds increase and social distancing concerns in the kitchen are quickly addressed.

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#LifeOrDeathRecipe Challenge and ‘A Woman’s Place’

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. “Over the last century, women, despite their incredible contributions, have struggled to make it in professional kitchens — held back by inequalities unfairly put upon them,” said Rob Sundy, Head of Brand Marketing & Creative Studios at Whirlpool Corporation, the parent company of the KitchenAid brand.

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The Uncertain Future of Pop-Up Restaurants

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With multicourse dinners out of the question during the coronavirus pandemic, he’s cooking in her kitchen, posting a menu on his Instagram , and selling dishes to the public for $10 to $12 each. Until recently, Salimatu Amabebe traveled state to state hosting their dinner series, Black Feast. I was living contract to contract.”

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-June 2021 Edition

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The study also intends to find a potential solution for solving these challenges, especially considering the nature of job for restaurant workers –– unlike their desk-bound peers sitting at HQ offices, these are frontline heroes constantly on the go serving customers or busy prepping in the back kitchen. 38 percent). 27 percent).

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PPP Flexibility, Free Reopening Resources and HungerForce

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The reopening kits provide independent restaurant operators with must-have supplies such as masks and safety guidance posters as well as resource guides to navigate state and local COVID-19 reopening requirements and help create a safer environment for staff and customers alike. US Foods Holding Corp. ” Davisware and Parts Town Team Up.