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CHEFS – SIMPLE AT A DIFFERENT LEVEL

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Meticulously clean kitchens; pristine, starched chef whites; the very best equipment and ingredients from around the world. Make sure everything is made in house just like that fine dining chef would do for a ten- course tasting menu. Fifteen-hour workdays, no time for anything but the pursuit of excellence.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

” “Tastewise has been incredibly valuable in helping us to uncover white spaces in the food and beverage industry. “Our technology connects the dots between billions of food data points across restaurant menus, online recipes and social media. “We believe there’s strength in numbers,” White said.

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Unique Ways Restaurants Can Use QR Codes to Drive Sales

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants across the country shelved their paper menus and turned to digital options to reduce touchpoints. To go contactless, customers scanned a small black and white square called a QR code on their mobile device to see a digital copy of the menu. The opportunities are endless. Boost Social Media.

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Is the Minimalist Restaurant Menu Over?

EATER

It’s a familiar scene: After sitting down at a table, the waiter brings you a sheet of fancy paper with the day’s menu printed in pretty fonts. There are around a dozen dishes, which can be ordered as a tasting menu or a la carte. “We But just as that information once did, the minimalist menu is disappearing.

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What Egg Shortage? At the Gudetama Cafe, It’s Business As Usual.

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Naturally, the menu is focused on eggs (which, given the cafes mascot, feels a bit cannibalistic). There was also a paper sign taped to the door, which made me panic: did the egg shortage mean that Id just wasted an hour driving to Orange County? So I assumed that the egg shortages must be affecting the businesss bottom line.

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Cleanliness in the Restaurant: Reality and Perception

Modern Restaurant Management

For instance, something more sustainable but reminiscent of the white, butcher paper on wood tables that was popular in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. From a table covering that is replaced between parties to light-colored quartz bar tops, plan to see the sharp, fresh, white trend reemerge.

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Design Inspired by Japanese Sensibilities

Modern Restaurant Management

The name comes from the Japanese equivalent of the Rock, Paper, Scissors game and the space combines natural elements, fluid design lines, and Japanese precision throughout. To kick it off, Chef Rodrigo Ochoa took us through his vision for the cuisine and what the menu would be like, so we used that as our anchor point.

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