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Eight Ways Restaurants Can Prepare for a New Normal 

Modern Restaurant Management

How restaurants are laid out, in terms of flow and concentration of seating, will be key sensitivities to address. It will be important to balance the table-turns required to return to profit while acknowledging lingering desires for physical distancing. Mixt Greens Yerba Buena ©Eric Rorer.

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A Guide to Effective Instagram Marketing For Restaurants

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

Ever since Chris Messina’s #barcamp hashtag turned up on social media in 2007, hashtags have been big business for marketing. A great example is the Coppa Club chain in London that periodically offers outdoor seating in igloos and pods. People love a celebration, and usually don’t need to be persuaded to make an event of it!

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4 Ways to Pivot Your Restaurant’s Business Model During COVID-19

7 Shifts

The meal kit industry, which has been around since 2007, hit $5 billion in annual revenue in 2019—but growth in the industry was slow pre-COVID-19. Offer meal kits ?? If you have many groceries, inventory, or portioned goods, consider offering meal kits to diners to cook at home.

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

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It was almost midnight when I pulled up to the drop site in a borrowed car, the rear seats pushed down to make room for the product. In 2007, Indian mangoes were among the first major irradiated fruits to be approved and imported, but they had to be treated in India beforehand. Pakistani mangoes began arriving in the U.S.

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Eater’s Guide to Idaho’s Snake River Valley

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Some of the first grapes planted in the Pacific Northwest were grown in Lewiston in 1864 — about three decades before statehood — but it took until 2007 for the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to approve the Snake River Valley as the state’s first American Viticultural Area (AVA). Idaho is considered a newbie on the U.S.

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After Two ‘100-Year Floods’ in Just a Dozen Years, Vermont Restaurants Look to Rebuild Stronger

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The 14-year-old restaurant had reopened July 3 with a brand-new bar, upwards of 20 additional seats, and more kitchen and storage space. Deng arrived in Vermont in 2007 as a refugee from what is now South Sudan and works with hundreds of clients who are immigrants in his capacity as a tax professional and business consultant.

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part One

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This includes reevaluating our restaurant footprint and design – such as looking at locations with smaller indoor footprints and more patio seating, as well as drive-thrus, permanently designated spots for curbside pickup, and contactless takeout. In 2021 we expect to see significant growth in connected TV ads.

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