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Eight Ways Restaurants Can Prepare for a New Normal 

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Those screens switch to menu boards when the take-out area is sealed off from the dining room.” Creator were still keen to “support an intimate, social, human-interaction-rich service experience”, however, so people still take the orders, deliver the food and design the menu. Mixt Greens Yerba Buena ©Eric Rorer.

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part One

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Smart brands are having to be even more creative, such as leveraging the ‘to go bag’ as a communications channel that can be used to communicate brand messages, promote new menu offerings and provide bounce back offers that favor preferred channels such as pick up. Berekk Blackwell, President of Daily Jam.

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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

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That’s why our teams—who specifically work to improve restaurant operations, performance, and staff happiness—have curated a 7-course menu of the best books about understanding restaurant management. So pull up a chair and take a deep dive into some of the most insightful and actionable tips from the best in the business. Goodreads: 3.85

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Enjoy Fall Like a Heartland Kid and Dip Your Cinnamon Rolls in Chili

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But he wasn’t prepared for what customers would do with those cinnamon rolls when beef-and-bean chili came to the menu in the fall. “I Baffling though the pairing was initially, Schneider now serves chili and cinnamon rolls together as a seasonal special, from November through March. “I Kids look forward to that menu combination.”

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Is the Minimalist Restaurant Menu Over?

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It’s a familiar scene: After sitting down at a table, the waiter brings you a sheet of fancy paper with the day’s menu printed in pretty fonts. There are around a dozen dishes, which can be ordered as a tasting menu or a la carte. “We But just as that information once did, the minimalist menu is disappearing.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Opportunity is Barking and the Spirit of BBQ

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The operating model and menu are adaptable to any environment with different options including kiosks and free-standing locations with a drive-thru, ranging from a few hundred square feet up to 2200 square feet. The recently updated menu also includes housemade chips and freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.

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Noma Named ‘World’s Best Restaurant’ — Again

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Noma, the acclaimed tasting menu restaurant helmed by chef René Redzepi in Copenhagen, landed at No. 1 restaurant in 2021 is not one of the eight tasting menu spots below that have taken turns in the highest spot over the past 18 lists. A sea snail dish on the seafood menu from Noma. 1 winners ineligible. Except it kind of is.

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