Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My wife and I founded Rib & Chop House in Livingston, Montana, in 2001, just months prior to the heartbreaking events of 9/11. ” Sometimes world events deal those of us in the restaurant business a really difficult hand, but it gives us the opportunity to find success in unexpected ways.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

When a consumer orders—for example— a dish you haven’t served in two years , or expects to pay the prices you charged all the way back in 2001 , they’re bound to be disappointed. When customers order through Grubhub, they likely have no conception of your restaurant’s arrangement (or lack thereof) with the delivery company. .

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Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 20, 2021

Look back to a black swan event you might have already been through the events on September 11, 2001. Events like this are what economists call a “ black swan ,” catastrophic occurrences that basically cause a global shift in mindset and behavior. The coronavirus will change the way restaurants do business as well.

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EATER

JULY 2, 2020

Coca-Cola, the juice company’s parent company since 2001, announced that it’s discontinuing the brand, the Wall Street Journal reports. Plus, the House of Representatives voted to extend the PPP deadline, and more news to start your day The end of Odwalla, staple of airports and bodegas everywhere.

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EATER

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As he told the Japan Times in 2001, “Design to me has always meant making people happy.” As a native of Hiroshima, Ekuan survived the atomic bomb before designing his famous dispenser. He assumed the role of an industrial designer with tremendous responsibility and explained that his creations always had a profound intention.

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EATER

JANUARY 8, 2021

Angelenos first discovered birria de res during trips to Tijuana, as did I around 2001, when the menu at Tacos Aarón featured tacos de birria, birria de caldo, and quesabirrias (birria and melted cheese in a tortilla), along with more than a dozen tacos varios (the regional name for tacos de guisado).

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EATER

JUNE 6, 2024

Along with other influential contemporary cultural documents, like Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation in 2001 and Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma in 2006, Super Size Me changed the way many Americans think about fast food by exposing the nefarious underworld that sustains it.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Since the project began in 2001, Piper Sandler has surveyed more than 194,800 teens and collected over 48.2 Discretionary spending patterns, fashion trends, technology, and brand and media preferences are assessed through surveying a geographically diverse subset of high schools across the U.S. million data points on teen spending.

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EATER

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This cycle repeated itself after the 2001 dot-com bust, followed by 9/11. One of the common threads here is the attempt to merge nightclub and restaurant genres, boosting the mood for baller spending on liquor sales.

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EATER

JUNE 21, 2022

In 2001, California Prunes rebranded to California Dried Plums in the hopes of reminding consumers of the prune’s origins as the far less maligned plum. But Kiaran Locy, the California Prune Board’s director of brand and industry communications, says that’s not as much of a hurdle as you might imagine.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

Since the project began in 2001, Piper Sandler has surveyed more than 185,000 teens and collected over 46.2 Discretionary spending patterns, fashion trends, technology, and brand and media preferences are assessed through surveying a geographically diverse subset of high schools across the U.S. million data points on teen spending.

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EATER

MARCH 26, 2022

The facts back that up: According to a paper published by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford, between 2001 and 2011, global farmland dedicated to organic farming multiplied by 2.3.

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A Wine Story

MAY 5, 2020

Lillie Wolff 2001: The Beginning Chambers Wine and Spirits. David Lille founded Chambers Street Wines with partner Jamie Wolff in 2001. Often shortened to Chambers Wine, this old street wine shop focuses on European wines from small, mostly family owned wineries.

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EATER

JULY 30, 2020

She opened Margot Café & Bar in 2001, and it is still a pillar of high standards and delicious food to this day. Born and raised in Nashville, Margot was a chef in New York City when being a chef in New York City meant something. She came up in the era of Kitchen Confidential lore. And she behaved like it.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

in 2001, I originally wanted to attend the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, but as an immigrant with very limited resources, I decided to move to Las Vegas to learn from the talented chefs on the Strip. Did you go to culinary school or college? When I migrated to the U.S.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

A Johns Hopkins student newsletter published in 2001 corroborates the existence of the utopian all-you-can-eat Taco Bell, saying, “you can also gorge yourself on some good old Taco Bell tacos and burritos. Don’t forget, it’s all-you-can-eat.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Norma died in 1978 in a devastating car accident, followed by Charlie in 2001 after a brief and sudden illness, and then Mama Tars in 2021. Charlie used to say Liz was peeling garlic by the time she was five. Liz has primarily run the restaurant for the past few decades.

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EATER

DECEMBER 20, 2023

But, as Judith Shulevitz pointed out in a 2001 New York Times essay , “the very over-the-top-ness of Martha’s productions testifies to her deep understanding of the holiday. Yes, she kind of overdoes it. She knows she overdoes it — she’s a perfectionist and Christmas is her job! Christmas has always been a time for extremes.

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Ken Burgin

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

The last time we had an impact like this in Australia was back in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks in New York. I wrote a fairly lengthy article back in 2001 , with advice on how to manage the effects on small businesses – it still holds up well.

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EATER

JUNE 5, 2023

Barbara Lazaroff, Wolfgang Puck’s ex-wife and the co-founder of the Wolfgang Puck brand, told the LA Times in 2001. “People credit me with inventing the open kitchen, but what about the American diner?”

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Delaget

JANUARY 8, 2025

Founded in 2001, Delaget serves over 30,000 locations, with 125+ brands among its customers (including 40 of the top 50 North America-based restaurant concepts). The transaction closed on December 31, 2024.

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EATER

MARCH 3, 2022

Over the years chefs advised and guided, and even occasionally designed products for the company — like Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s infused grapeseed oils from 2001 — but it wasn’t until 2011 that they really stepped forward with Williams-Sonoma products of their own.

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A Wine Story

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Rita Hills American Viticulture Area (AVA), which received its designation in 2001. Rita Hills American Viticulture Area (AVA) Click to Tweet With vines planted in 1973, their vineyard formed the foundation of what is now the Sta. Why is Santa Barbara Chardonnay so Special?

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Sante

MAY 22, 2020

And in 2001, UNESCO sanctioned the Douro region as a World Heritage site. The earliest written records mentioning Quinta do Crasto and its wine production date back to 1615. One hundred forty years later, in 1756, the Douro became the first-ever demarcated and regulated wine region in the world.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

Key takeaways: Chef's salaries increased by 8 percent Y-o-Y, the biggest increase since 2001, when we started to track the data. While some metrics released by the Bureau in its annual report are now obsolete (e.g. employment numbers), there are a few interesting metrics worth zooming in on.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 12, 2022

A few years on, in 2001, the Réunion government decided to take José up on the redevelopment of the coffee industry, with the support of the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) and the National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD).

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Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Chopt was founded in 2001 and has been serving the freshest, and spiciest, salads since its opening. Chopt takes a spicy spin on the classic salad. This place has colorful decor and even more colorful salads. They also have some yummy homemade dressing, such as their steakhouse blue cheese.

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EATER

MARCH 13, 2024

in 2001, she began teaching herself to bake, and her hobby eventually grew into a business. “I didn’t have many reference points when I started,” she writes. For me, there were no family recipes to fall back on,” as most traditional Indian desserts don’t involve sponge and buttercream. But when Sinha moved to the U.K.

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Sante

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

By 1970, through an auction bid, Stuart Davidson (1922 - 2001) and John Laytham, original owners of Clyde's of Georgetown, unexpectedly found themselves owners of a second saloon, the Old Ebbitt Grill. Old Ebbitt Grill, Washington's oldest saloon, was founded in 1856 when, according to legend, innkeeper William E.

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The Wine Knitter

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

According to Consortia di Tutela Vino Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG, created in 2001, “Vittoria Colonna Henriquez, the woman that founded the city of Vittoria in 1607, promoted wine production granting privileges to wine growers. Although the estates are next door to each other, they each have their distinct microclimate and soils.

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The Wine Knitter

MAY 8, 2020

And in 2001, UNESCO sanctioned the Douro region as a World Heritage site. The earliest written records mentioning Quinta do Crasto and its wine production date back to 1615. One hundred forty years later, in 1756, the Douro became the first-ever demarcated and regulated wine region in the world.

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Goliath Consulting

APRIL 11, 2020

In September 2001, tip jars across the service industry were willfully replaced with collections for the first responders and victims. Americans have a tenured history of supporting one another. Multiple studies demonstrated during the recession of 2008, the ratio of Americans’ charitable donations to income remained consistent.

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Buzztime Business

MARCH 22, 2024

Here are five outdated questions guaranteed to activate your brain cells: 6 – In 2001, Jane Swift became the first female governor of this New England state: 7 – In 2012, what singer donated $1 million to Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy relief? Most bar trivia and pub trivia games don’t give you multiple choices.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 7, 2024

We might like to put a date on the transition to confusion: the day that we determined Covid was a pandemic, the nosedive the stock market took in 2008, or it might even go back to that awful day of September 11, 2001.

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EATER

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The alien on the cover — wearing a costume that looks like it’s made of the moquette they use to upholster the seating on the London Underground — is Neelix, a character portrayed on Voyager (1995-2001) by co-author Phillips.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In 2001, Bill was promoted to Vice President of Operations overseeing TSFR’s 60 Burger King restaurants; in 2003 he was promoted to Executive Vice President of Operations, Training & Development and Human Resources; in 2006, Bill was promoted to Chief Operating Officer adding the Del Taco brand to his responsibilities.

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Perfect Daily Grind

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These systems have been around since 2001, and since then, farmers have vastly improved the quality of coffee in Tanzania.”. “Hopefully the Tanzanian Coffee Board can revise the systems to reflect the higher-quality coffees that Tanzanian farmers are growing,” she says.

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