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Unique Ways Restaurants Can Use QR Codes to Drive Sales

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They hit the mainstream back in 2002 when technological advancements enabled a QR-code reading feature to be added to mobile phones. QR codes are nothing new. QR codes were invented in 1994 by Denso Wave, a Japanese-based subsidiary of Toyota, to track vehicle parts during manufacturing.

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Overcoming the Pandemic: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities in the Restaurant Business

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By 2002, my partner and I founded a second operation: Sea Dog Brewing Co., In 1994, I founded Shipyard Brewing Company, financed in part by $600,000 that I charged to eight separate credit cards. In those early days, I used my own car, a 1992 Chevy S10 Blazer, to distribute my beers to local pubs and restaurants.

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National Restaurant Association: We Need Help!

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3.483 billion in 2001 and 2002 appropriated via three different supplemental bills for assistance to Lower Manhattan and the State of New York. After 9/11, the CDBG-DR Business Recovery Grant program provided grants to businesses with fewer than 500 employees with compensation based on days of lost gross revenue. Tax Measures.

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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

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Several months into 2002 we had lines out the door, and we were ready for them. When we are living through difficult downtimes — the COVID-19 pandemic being our latest example — it is a time for preparation.

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New Food Traceability Final Rule to Improve Food Safety, Expedite Recalls and Protect Public Health

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Until now, each company’s chain of custody record-keeping requirement has been characterized as “one up, one down,” per the 2002 Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act (Bioterrorism Act).

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Long Live ShopRite’s Can Can Sale

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In the 1980s, commercials featured live actors portraying the cancan dancers and a sort of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec character; in 2002, the chain added a July Can Can sale, replacing the Moulin Rouge theme music with a riff on “Hot, Hot, Hot” and in 2018, it retired the cancan dancers from the commercial.

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How Rotel Became an Essential Part of Any Queso

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In 2002, ConAgra Foods acquired the Rotel brand, and now, its reach is far beyond the Texas cities that first popularized the pantry item. In 2005, Rotel and Velveeta, that other essential queso ingredient, became partners , allowing Rotel to reach the Northeast and Midwest. According to financial news site 24/7 Wall St.,