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How to Write the Perfect Restaurant Mission Statement: Guide + Examples

7 Shifts

They provide insights into business strategy, guide business decisions, and are a reminder of why you started. If mission statements are that important, you'd think more restaurateurs would spend time creating theirs. Unfortunately, not all restaurateurs recognize the value of a well-thought-through mission statement. The result? The good news?

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

EATER

Over the next decade, new cafes, restaurants, and housing developments owned by outsiders replaced many resident-owned properties and abandoned lots. Between 2000 and 2010, the Latinx population declined 26 percent. He picked the location for a simple reason: At the time, it was near one of the city’s only Mexican grocery stores.

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Powerhouse Women in the Kitchen

Sante

She shifted her focus and accepted her first pastry position at Sunny Isles Italian eatery, Café L’attito and didn’t look back. Despite the old adage, “A woman’s place is in the kitchen”, professional kitchens to this day continue to be male-dominated. Photo credit: Blue Shell Media.

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Inside Alison Roman’s Upstate Shoppy Shop

EATER

A three-and-a-half hour drive from Brooklyn, and an hour-and-24-minute drive from Hudson, is Bloomville, New York — a hamlet in the Western Catskills with a population of 173 according to the 2020 census, down from 213 in 2010. But what is she selling, exactly? The store balances the local with the international, and with the homemade.

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The True Cost of Convenience

EATER

In 2010, I founded my own delivery app, FoodtoEat. There’s been consistent coverage of their detrimental impact on workers ever since the phrase “gig economy” was first uttered, but the pandemic has increased the public’s awareness of exactly how they harm the restaurant industry.

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The Best Salad Chains In America

Restaurant Clicks

I’m a big fan of salad. And when I want a good salad, I make sure I’m somewhere in the U.S. America has some of the best salad chains for several reasons. I’ve eaten at some of the best salad joints in America and each of them has a uniqueness that’s hard to forget. Best Salad Chains in America. Sweetgreen. choptsalad). Fresh & Co.

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Parisian Gastronomy Goes Global

EATER

“In the beginning, our plan was to go back to Mexico after our studies,” Casarrubias says. “We We said to ourselves that it would be easier financially to open [a restaurant] back home.” He said, ‘Enrique, the type of cuisine you want to do, no one else does here,’” Casarrubias says of Mexican fine dining. Oxte Myriad sauces at Oxte.