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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

Focus on creating extraordinary experiences that raise the bar in your community. Focus on creating extraordinary experiences that raise the bar in your community. My wife and I founded Rib & Chop House in Livingston, Montana, in 2001, just months prior to the heartbreaking events of 9/11. Support Your Staff.

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National Restaurant Association: We Need Help!

Modern Restaurant Management

3.483 billion in 2001 and 2002 appropriated via three different supplemental bills for assistance to Lower Manhattan and the State of New York. As of March 17, 28 States or territories have ordered closures for their restaurants and bars. Assistance in allowing businesses to defer mortgage, lease and loan obligations.

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Get Ready for the Post-COVID Economy Now!

Embrace the Suck

Look back to a black swan event you might have already been through the events on September 11, 2001. Most restaurants and bars got caught with their pants down. When this thing is over (and it will be over), there will be fewer restaurants and bars in business. Keep the sanitation standards high. Get Your S**t Together.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Alcoholic beverages, in particular, can have an enormous impact on guest checks, especially for bar and grill and more upscale restaurants. restaurants, bars, clubs, etc.), Since the project began in 2001, Piper Sandler has surveyed more than 185,000 teens and collected over 46.2 Same-Store Sales at McDonald's.

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Fast-Food Buffets Are a Thing of the Past. Some Doubt They Ever Even Existed.

EATER

By the 1980s, buffets ruled the landscape like family dynasties, with sister chains the Ponderosa and the Bonanza spreading the gospel of sneeze guards and steaks, sundae stations and salad bars along the interstates. Wendy’s Super Bar was short-lived, but the salad bar lived on for decades.”. It was $2.99 Santa Claus.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Key takeaways: Chef's salaries increased by 8 percent Y-o-Y, the biggest increase since 2001, when we started to track the data. Across the US, we’ve seen reopenings followed by spikes in COVID cases following visits to bars and restaurants that are not maintaining social distancing and requiring masks.

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A Fool’s Choice

EATER

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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