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National Restaurant Association: We Need Help!

Modern Restaurant Management

” The Association proposed three separate categories of protection for industry restaurants and employees: directed/targeted financial relief; loans/insurance options for impacted small businesses; and tax measures. Before coronavirus, the recruitment and retention of employees was the top challenge for the restaurant industry.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Transparency into work environment precautions – Many restaurants and stores are publishing the precautions they are taking to ensure the safety of customers and employees. The top factor influencing the choice to buy alcoholic drinks with take out/delivery relates to ease and safety. Gift Card Sales Boom. 6 preferred brand.”

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The Kikkoman Soy Sauce Bottle Is Priceless

EATER

When the company built the production facility in Wisconsin not long after (reducing import costs and providing access to a steady supply of Midwestern soybeans and wheat), it asked Japanese employees to find homes within the local community to foster strong relationships with other residents.

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The Great Birria Boom

EATER

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). “At

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A Fool’s Choice

EATER

Throughout, she relates her own narrative and relationship to food to those of her mother and grandmothers. She opened Margot Café & Bar in 2001, and it is still a pillar of high standards and delicious food to this day. She came up in the era of Kitchen Confidential lore. And she behaved like it.

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How I Got My Job: Being a Professional Recipe Developer and Food Photographer

EATER

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. I took advantage of the opportunity they offered as an employee benefit. When I migrated to the U.S.

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PAR Technology Corporation Acquires Delaget™ Expanding its Restaurant Analytics and Back-Office Capabilities

Delaget

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). Joining forces with PAR Technology represents an exciting new chapter for Delagets customers and employees, said Jason Tober , Chief Executive Officer of Delaget.