Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2004, Hoeckendorf started to explore new roles at Starbucks and worked in just about every café position including General Manager before being promoted to District Manager of Company Stores. This role includes the catering business and strategy, the sales team, call center as well as partnerships with off-premise sales.

Marketing 253

Marketing Point of Sale 2004 License 253

EATER

JANUARY 21, 2021

Seamless was founded in 1999, Grubhub in 2004, Postmates in 2011, and DoorDash in 2012. Conversely, the delivery app industry, with billions of dollars in investment, is shaping up to fight every legal challenge thrown its way, and to spend its way to crafting labor legislation in its favor. When did delivery apps get so powerful?

Delivery 335

Delivery Customer Service Food Order Online Ordering 335

EATER

MAY 26, 2021

area in 2004, so for better or worse, I’ve become intimately familiar with the interchange’s (lack of) options and how they’ve evolved (read: devolved) over the years. As a Cleveland native with close family in Pittsburgh, I’ve passed through Breezewood about a dozen times each year since moving to the D.C. There used to be a Wendy’s!

2004 261

2004 Travel Point of Sale Inventory 261

Restaurant Engine

JUNE 15, 2020

Domino’s Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) went public in 2004, and it has delivered a superior return to its shareholders, better even than Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL). I think it was 2004. ” Indeed, Google opened for trading at $100 per share on August 19, 2004. Domino’s Initial Public Offering occurred on July 13, 2004.

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2004 Operations Mobile Ordering Online Ordering 142

EATER

JULY 22, 2020

One staple of Creole cooking in New Orleans is Sassafras , co-owned by mother-and-son team Sandra Duckworth and Corey Duckworth since 2004. From Cajun-Creole and Creole-Italian and even “haute Creole,” the city — and Louisiana at large — have taken the style of cooking in countless creative directions.

2004 274

2004 Back of House Serving Food 274

EATER

JUNE 18, 2024

According to Google Trends , search interest in the term “popcorn bucket” went from basically negligible between 2004 and 2022 to slightly more appealing in 2022 and 2023 to hugely, shockingly popular in early 2024. The ‘DESPICABLE ME 4’ popcorn holder has been revealed.

2024 288

2024 2004 Point of Sale Merchandise 288

EATER

JULY 18, 2024

People have extraordinarily strong opinions on just about everything, and since 2004, Yelp — the site that aggregates user-written reviews — has provided a platform to exercise our first amendment right to criticize, exalt, and qualify. What inspires someone to write more than 1,200 Yelp reviews in a year?

2023 337

2023 2004 2005 2010 337

EATER

MARCH 31, 2021

Ever since her husband, Rudy, died in 2004, dropping Monowi’s population by half, Eiler has been something of an international celebrity. That is to say: Just one person lives in Monowi, the only incorporated, government-run town in the U.S. to have such a population. That person — that single, solitary soul — is 87-year-old Elsie Eiler.

Travel 332

Travel Social Media Small Business Food Truck 332

EATER

JUNE 21, 2024

Employed by many restaurants, if a little uncool in public perception, it’s kind of surprising when a hot, new place opts to use it over another booking system. Eater staff took note when Brooklyn’s highly anticipated Strange Delight popped up on the platform.

Reservations 242

Reservations 2014 2024 2004 242

EATER

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

HAGS sits at 163 First Avenue in Manhattan, which from 2004 to 2007 was the original location of Momofuku Noodle Bar. I was surprised to find I wasn’t thinking of all the dinners I’d had in this room, which had defined dining in the early aughts in New York City not just for me, but for basically the whole country.

2004 293

2004 Fine Dining 2007 Magazine 293

SpotOn

JANUARY 29, 2025

Spell Restaurant Group (Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama) : A family-operated restaurant group known for its diverse concepts and commitment to excellence since 2004.

POS 55

POS 2025 Marketing Loyalty Program 55

EATER

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Even before opening his love letter to burgers in New York City, Motz was infatuated: He directed a documentary about burgers in America in 2004; hosted a television series on the Travel Channel called Burger Land ; and has written two books about the history of burgers in the United States.

2004 280

2004 Travel Book Menu 280

EATER

OCTOBER 5, 2021

1: 2004, 2003 Vital Intel : Thomas Keller’s the French Laundry was the first American fine dining establishment to make it to the no. In 2017, Blumenthal was recognized by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for lifetime achievement. The Braineack/Flickr. The French Laundry. The French Laundry , Yountville, CA Years at No.

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EATER

JULY 18, 2023

Quiznos ditched the Spongmonkeys in 2004, likely because both their store franchisees and consumers alike hated those commercials. If you watched TV at all in 2003, you almost assuredly saw a Quiznos commercial featuring these unholiest of creatures wailing about how much they love the restaurant chain’s subs. “We

2003 246

2003 2004 Consumer Goods 2014 246

EATER

MARCH 25, 2021

In 2004, Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me was released, and in 2006 Michael Pollan published The Omnivore’s Dilemma. While boomers watched fast food spread across the country like a fungus, Gen X and millennials became the first generations for whom fast food was ubiquitous.

Design 322

Design Food Supply 2004 2019 322

EATER

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

While this 2004 recipe slightly pre-dates the mainstream usage of the word “umami” by every Western food journalist, the dish is, nevertheless, a well-honed study in that particular kind of unctuousness. In the realm of food, at least, I think we can safely say that smoke makes everything better.

2004 246

2004 Definition Food Specials 246

EATER

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Such criticism took on new life during Stewart’s 2004 insider trading trial and subsequent imprisonment. Hadn’t women been fighting for decades to get out of the house? And why did she have to take it so seriously? Why couldn’t she just relax?

Book 293

Book Back of House Entertainment 2003 293

EATER

AUGUST 5, 2021

market since 2004, packaged in a little red can that’s now become something of a 21st-century design icon. Sofia, a canned wine from the Francis Ford Coppola Winery of Geyserville, California, has been available on the U.S.

2006 293

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EATER

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 documentary Super Size Me, in which he ate McDonald’s three times a day for a month and gained weight, was used as proof that fast food was dangerously unhealthy. Fast food has been an American villain for a long time. Meanwhile, magazines featured sensationalized covers about the obesity epidemic.

Food 274

Food 2004 Magazine 2008 274

EATER

APRIL 7, 2021

Ceramicist Jono Pandolfi has been doing it since 2004, and now has his own studio in Union City, New Jersey where, with a small team of highly skilled artisans, he makes dishware for notable restaurants like New York City’s NoMad and Eleven Madison Park. Jono Pondolfi’s ceramic plates. Eater Video.

2004 238

2004 2010 Design Small Business 238

EATER

MAY 29, 2024

More than 7,000 people have died in the conflict since 2004, as separatists carry out attacks and accuse the Thai government of extrajudicial killings. Malay Muslim separatist groups have called for independence since 1948, and the insurgency movement has only intensified.

Food 326

Food Government Tourism Influencer 326

EATER

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Most importantly (to me), it doesn’t look like it would make my living room look like a 2004 TLC reality show “man cave.” Unlike the rest of Rocco’s wine fridges, the Las Jaras collab also comes in a new, creamy colorway and is outfitted with gold-colored hardware. Instead, I think it sure would look great next to my non-existent Togo sofa.

2004 261

2004 2024 Equipment Pricing 261

EATER

JUNE 29, 2022

Buckethead , the guitarist who played for Guns N’ Roses from 2000 to 2004, wears a KFC bucket on his head onstage, his hair flattened by the ghost grease of his bucket’s chicken past.

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White Paper Fast Casual 2004 2000 246

EATER

JULY 15, 2022

Food Network’s long-running version, Iron Chef America , which ran from 2004 to 2018, now seems like a relic of a prior era, with the now-disgraced Mario Batali one of its early Iron Chefs.) Quest for an Iron Legend addresses the “why care?”

Back of House 274

Back of House Seasonal Menu 2004 Influencer 274

EATER

MARCH 3, 2022

The company’s first iteration of “nutrition clubs” — called that in Herbalife parlance because they’re not exactly intended to function as retail shops — started to pop up in the mid-aughts , after the first was founded in Mexico in 2004.

Recruiting 313

Recruiting Small Business Social Media Consumer Goods 313

Restaurant Business

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The full-service Mexican chain shut down in 2004 following bankruptcy and a devastating hepatitis outbreak. The son of Chi-Chi's founder plans to start opening restaurants next year.

2004 363

2004 363

Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 7, 2022

Legally, all Kenyan co-ops must be registered under the 2004 Co-operative Societies Act. Co-operative societies fulfil a similar role to coffee co-operatives found elsewhere around the world – the difference in name is just that.

Operations 175

Operations Audits Agriculture Cash Management 175

Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 10, 2023

One of the most notable is Gesha – a unique variety which was “rediscovered” at the 2004 Best of Panama auction, and is now commonly used in competitions like the World Barista Championship. Within the specialty coffee market, there are a growing number of more exclusive and highly-prized coffee species and varieties.

Marketing 171

Marketing 2004 Customer Experience Article 171

EATER

JULY 6, 2022

The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture opened in 2004 on 80 acres of rolling hills and verdant forest that were once part of the extensive Rockefeller family holdings in the hamlet of Pocantico Hills, New York. The Center has had strong female leadership throughout its history. Cole Wilson/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Agriculture 246

Agriculture Leadership Employee Relations Food Safety 246

A Wine Story

AUGUST 1, 2021

About the Columbia Gorge AVA The Columbia Gorge AVA, established in 2004, comprises vineyard lands on both sides of the Columbia River, in both Oregon and Washington. In 2004 the orchard’s age required replacing the trees or trying something new. Columbia Gorge. Most wineries in the area are small, boutique wineries.

2004 78

2004 Vineyard Education Transportation 78

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 10, 2022

” The law was originally passed by the California legislature in 2004 with a 7.5-year California Health and Safety Code §25982 provides that “[a] product may not be sold in California if it is the result of force feeding a bird for the purpose of enlarging the bird’s liver beyond normal size.”

Restaurant Law 507

Restaurant Law 2004 Point of Sale Retail 507

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 8, 2024

Established in 2004 by Japanese chef Masa Takayama, it has earned the maximum of three Michelin Stars. They were ranked based on their standard menu pricing per person. Taking the top spot is Masa in New York, whose standard tasting menu will set you back an astonishing $750per person.

Catering 251

Catering 2024 2023 Guest Recovery 251

Indoor Media

DECEMBER 23, 2017

While consumers have always wanted to save money, Google Trends shows that interest in the term “coupons” has more than doubled since 2004. The coupon craze has risen to new heights.

Coupons 78

Coupons 2004 2016 2017 78

EATER

DECEMBER 26, 2024

When Spurlock premiered Super Size Me in 2004, a documentary that saw Spurlock eat only McDonalds for 30 days and record the health effects, it became a phenomenon. For all those curious to know more, we had this explainer ready. The Complicated Legacy of Super Size Me In May, Morgan Spurlock died at 53.

2024 301

2024 2004 Fine Dining 2025 301

Next Restaurants

AUGUST 18, 2020

Both of them experienced a rise in popularity of this food in 2004. And obviously, these diners have a different opinion about Indian cuisine. So, let’s break down the case of Indian cuisine in these two states. From then on, it has been gradually losing its popularity in both states.

Seasonal Menu 127

Seasonal Menu 2004 Small Business Social Media 127

Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 22, 2023

The first example was in 2004. Ultimately, this required level of quality has helped to drive innovation at green coffee auctions even further. High quality & even higher prices Over the past two decades, the prices paid for coffee at auctions have been increasing more and more.

2004 143

2004 Pricing Sourcing Sustainability 143

Michael Hartzell - Restaurant Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Though the article is from 2004, it is still offers good advice. Any Type of Restaurant: Mark Siebert offers sound advice on Entrepreneur.com: Almost any type of restaurant can be franchised, provided it meets three basic criteria: salability, ‘clone-ability,’ and ROI.”. This should prompt you to rethink your operation.

Franchise 49

Franchise Franchising 2004 Advertising 49