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Experience Is the Best Teacher: Five Things My Father — and Hard Times — Have Taught Me About Leadership in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Here are five I’ve come back to again and again. He opened the first Ruth’s Chris franchise in 1975 and became one of the company’s largest U.S. franchisees. Never Take Advantage of the Guest. At Finally Restaurant Group, we take pride in becoming part of the community in exceptional small towns across the country.

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A SOMBER DAY – WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET THE SOUL OF AMERICA

Culinary Cues

This is a day that must give us pause, a day of unthinkable horror that will always be remembered by anyone born before 2001. Nineteen years later – what does 9/11 continue to mean to America and the world? It is also a day that has and will continue to impact every person worldwide, regardless of his or her age and nationality.

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The Great Birria Boom

EATER

How two Mexican-American birrieros made the beloved dish a sensation in America In 2005, two Mexican-American teenagers from LA met at the fair in Coatzingo, Puebla, during Semana Santa, or Holy Week, a time when countless Mexican-American families head back to their family’s hometowns all over Mexico to visit relatives.

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‘Martha Stewart’s Christmas’ Was a Book, a Fantasia, and a Target

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What can you say about a woman who makes not a gingerbread house but a gingerbread mansion?” It’s entirely logical that as more women have less time to do anything around the house, Martha Stewart and her fellow sisters in sadism would become the nation’s household gurus,” complained the Salt Lake Tribune.

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A Fool’s Choice

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Donovan’s first job at McCormack’s Margot Café is a far cry from her time at her first steady restaurant job at TradeWinds, a “22-­seat Italian cigar den housed in a double-­wide trailer on a dirt hillside corner” in Valparaiso, Florida. Lisa Donovan | Photo courtesy of Lisa Donovan. Monica Burton. ax” and “a straight?up

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The Kikkoman Soy Sauce Bottle Is Priceless

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It took industrial designer Kenji Ekuan three years of development and 100 prototypes before he unveiled the final version, which premiered in 1961 — though the roots of the Kikkoman brand stretch back several centuries. The Kikkoman soy sauce bottle in its many iterations. Photos by Nippon & Co, lottaocean , modemedia , and irokk.

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You Should Absolutely Age Your Own Wine. Here’s How to Do It

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Today, a half case of each sits in my basement, and assuming elementary schools are back in session full force, we’ll be drinking the first bottle come fall 2022. Today, a half case of each sits in my basement, and assuming elementary schools are back in session full force, we’ll be drinking the first bottle come fall 2022.

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