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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.?

EATER

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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An Eater’s Guide to Visiting (and Drinking) Champagne 

EATER

Since 2007, Christine and her husband have preserved that heritage while taking it further with low intervention viticulture (currently transitioning to organic), single-terroir Champagnes, and a new tasting and event space in a former school located in the village. Au Bon Manger (Reims).

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Eater’s Guide to Idaho’s Snake River Valley

EATER

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

EATER

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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‘Manifold Destiny’ Is the Apotheosis of Dude Cooking

EATER

In 2007, the crew of the BBC show Top Gear attempted to impress Gordon Ramsay with three meals cooked a la engine as the cars raced around a track; Ramsay gamely gave them a try but, after a single bite, was reduced to uncharacteristic silence. They only claimed it was better than fast food you could get on the road.