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Cleanliness in the Restaurant: Reality and Perception

Modern Restaurant Management

” However, we expect the initial reduction in seating capacity to be closer to 25-30 percent, not 50 percent. This period will likely last four-to-six weeks, and we expect the seating reduction to create table spacing of approximately 9’-0” on center (from the typical 6’-0” on center).

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Food Hall Brand Finding Community in Emerging Markets

Modern Restaurant Management

In Orlando, our most recent project, we added a 5000 sq ft space for seated or standing events and a 2000 sq ft kitchen for food prep. They can be utilized as an all-day cafe, where people often work on their laptops for hours. Event spaces have become essential to our food halls.

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Feast on Sushi, Steak, and Globalization at Iraq’s American-Themed Buffet

EATER

With a flagship 1,800-seat location in the city of Erbil and a second 800-seat location in Sulaimani (also spelled Sulaymaniyah), ABC is one of Iraq’s most popular restaurant brands, with often busy dining rooms, large social media followings, and billboards all over. “My Children mob the costumed figure, squealing with delight.

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

EATER

It was almost midnight when I pulled up to the drop site in a borrowed car, the rear seats pushed down to make room for the product. Here, their popularity is only growing: Americans nearly doubled their mango consumption between 2000 and 2018. Pakistani mangoes began arriving in the U.S.

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Americans Can’t Kick the Fried Chicken Bucket

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The cashier was nice, which made the experience even better, as did the instant satisfaction of tucking away a very large, very warm, very full plastic bag on the floor of my front seat.

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7 Fun Adventurous Happy Tips for Brazil’s Wine Regions

A Wine Story

Here you can relax with bean bag seats, low tables, and buy Miolo drinks and food for a picnic Click to Tweet. The Salton family’s wine production dates from 1878, yet they constructed the building in 2000. The airy, modern estate dazzles the eye with its enormous size and park-like grounds.

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MRM Franchise Feed: TCBY at 40 and, Mr. Potato Spread to Franchise

Modern Restaurant Management

Features of the new restaurant design were determined following a thorough brand study on drive-thru operations and Guest habits, and include a double drive-thru lane, parking stalls for curbside pickup, a walk-up window, and patio seating.

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