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Unique Ways Restaurants Can Use QR Codes to Drive Sales

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Although the new tool required many restaurant staffers to serve dual roles as waitstaff and technical consultants, using QR codes was a resounding success. 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.

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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., But through persistence and the right partnerships, we’ll be able to pursue new opportunities, grow the business and serve the ever-evolving needs of our customers. and we now have 16 locations in Maine, New Hampshire and Florida.

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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. But as you can expect, as an industry that is based on welcoming everyone through our doors, we are uniquely affected by mandates that keep us from serving our customers. Tax Measures.

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FSMA Rule 204 Updated: What Restaurants Need to Know Right Now

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The actual genesis of this initiative was the Bio-Terrorism Act of 2002 which regulated “1 up 1 down” traceability which is now the de facto standard. Sparked by the death of an individual who died from a tainted spinach E.

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How Rotel Became an Essential Part of Any Queso

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By the time the queso is served alongside chips for dipping, it’s rich, yes, but also a bit spicy. Rotel began marketing itself as a queso ingredient in 1949 through a recipe for chile con queso that simply required adding the canned good to melted cheese and serving it with chips. According to financial news site 24/7 Wall St.,

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Face Pay Network, Restaurant of the Future and The Main Course

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Alonso Castañeda , VP of Brand Development & Strategy for Savory Restaurant Fund, will discuss how the brands he works with have been able to take advantage of the current landscape to creatively serve customers. ” Duff & Phelps served as financial advisor to Sun Capital Partners, Inc. In 2002, Jim and Pete, Jr.

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‘The Zuni Cafe Cookbook’ Is a Master Class in California Cuisine

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Lille Allen/Eater Judy Rodgers’s 2002 classic is a 500-page testament to the enduring importance of little details Let’s imagine for a second that Judy Rodgers had a perfectly ordinary senior year at Ladue High School, just outside of St. Louis, eating supermarket vegetables and pizza covered in processed cheese.

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