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Functional Beverages Gaining Popularity in Restaurants

Restaurant Business

This trend is known as Precision Wellness, identified by Innova as one of the top influencing trends in 2025. Its something theyve been perfecting since 2001.Innovation In this age of information, consumers are seeking out specific ingredients to meet their targeted nutritional needs.

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How Martha Moments Creator Andrew Ritchie Built a Martha Stewart Community

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The idea of creating my own online presence to celebrate Martha’s talent and influence came from a conversation with John Small, the creator of SaveMartha.com. My favorite October issue is from 2001. When I really delved in, I started to realize how much I was using the teachings I learned, and how they actually were improving my life.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The top factor influencing the choice to buy alcoholic drinks with take out/delivery relates to ease and safety. 78 percent of female teens use online influencers as a source of discovery for beauty brands and trends. Since the project began in 2001, Piper Sandler has surveyed more than 185,000 teens and collected over 46.2

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The Kikkoman Soy Sauce Bottle Is Priceless

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Following the first waves of Japanese immigrants to Hawai‘i and the Pacific Coast in the 1860s, Kikkoman constructed this influence over the ensuing decades, fostering a rare unicorn of relationships: overseas expansion without friction, the stuff of Harvard Business School case studies.

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The Great Birria Boom

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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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The National Restaurant Association, Explained

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Until recently, the National Restaurant Association has been working largely behind the scenes, influencing the industry in ways that most diners aren’t even aware of. Here, we dig into what the NRA does, who it serves, and whether or not that’s a good thing for the people who actually do the work at restaurants.

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In Defense of Prunes

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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. Back when he worked at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, “prunes played a natural part in our repertoire,” Lebovitz recalls, citing the restaurant’s French influence as the reason.

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