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Five Things Every Restaurant Can Do to Boost Profits While Reopening

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CoGS for the period is $2000. This won’t ever replace a restaurant’s main source of revenue but is another great way to support the local producer community and offer customers something more unique. You purchased $1,000 in ground beef patties at the beginning of the week.

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World Champion Boxer and Grilling Mogul Has Died

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In 2000, CNN Money projected that 12 to 15 percent of American homes in the 90s had a George Foreman grill.) Over time, these television appearances secured the boxers role as a complicated source of nostalgia and culinary aspiration.

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Managing Risks for Acts of Violence on Restaurant Property

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since 2000 , property owners and operators everywhere are taking a hard look at security options. These could come from many sources including: disgruntled employees, significant others with domestic disputes, angry customers, etc. With more than 300 active shooter events in the U.S.

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Chefs Dish on ‘The Bear’

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These clams are incredibly rare and we were sourcing them from a local farmer in Florida. Back in the early 2000’s I worked at a restaurant where the head chef smoked through service. You never know what can happen when working in a restaurant kitchen. The inspector had become a regular so a lot of rules got bent.

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A Series of Extremely Scientific Theories on Why Fun Is Fun

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This period saw the opening of big, splashy restaurants like New York’s Balthazar in 1997 and a grander, more-futuristic version of Le Cirque called Le Cirque 2000 (which opened in 1997). Consider also the first iteration of the extremely successful Tao , which opened on 58th Street [in NYC] in 2000. It simply becomes us.

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New-Wave Bakeries Are on the Rise in Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rican bakers face unique challenges sourcing ingredients and battling lingering cultural stigmas — but they’ve also developed new baking traditions reflecting the island’s own foodways. Though bakers’ hearts lie in French boulangeries and Italian pasticcerias, they have to deal with sourcing ingredients in Puerto Rico.

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

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Community activists were able to resist these efforts through the early 1990s, but by the 2000s, political leaders, including the community’s alderman, invited pricey new development into the neighborhood, paving the way for rapid change. Between 2000 and 2010, the Latinx population declined 26 percent.

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