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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

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While you must follow the strict guidelines to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, that’s not to say you can’t take advantage of an empty restaurant to improve your knowledge of restaurant management, running a business, and creating a recipe for success when you eventually get back to business as usual. Published: 2009 ??

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

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Over the next decade, new cafes, restaurants, and housing developments owned by outsiders replaced many resident-owned properties and abandoned lots. Inocencio Carbajal opened his acclaimed taqueria, Carnitas Uruapan, on West 18th Street in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood in 1975. But the Pilsen around it is changing again.

2010 363
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Meet Four Craft Chocolate Makers Decolonizing the Industry

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Chocolate makers Jinji Fraser, Karla McNeil-Rueda, Damaris Ronkanen, and Daniel Maloney on how ancestry informs what they do, and how to eradicate cultural erasure in the industry Over a perfect omelet brimming with spring ramps and morels, I found myself stunned mid-chew as I listened to the words of my father. Karla McNeil-Rueda: A bit of both.

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

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After dropping off most of the load at my cousin’s house, I took my cut, a private stash of two boxes. My cousin knew a Pakistani guy who had acquired the best stuff money could buy, rare varietals that were spoken of in hushed, reverent tones at parties. I wasn’t about to miss my chance, so I volunteered to grab the stuff myself.

2010 364
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French Restaurants Are in Vogue

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Make your way across the pistachio-green carpet, slip into one of the changing rooms, push aside the back panel, and find a dining room under a glass roof, along with a staircase descending to a club and private dining room. The other half of Halo, tucked behind the storefront, is a restaurant headed up by Victor Blanchet. “We

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The State of New York Restaurants in 2020

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Data from Restaurant365 backs up our own findings, showing that the sales recovery of New York is trending below the average (with New York sales remaining 52% below pre-COVID levels, whereas the average is 22%). As the Head of U.S. What support is available for New York restaurants 1.

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Ghetto Gastro, in Its Own Words

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Black Power Kitchen is as much a cooking manual as it is a manifesto of Ghetto Gastro’s decade-long mission: Seeing eating as simultaneously a form of survival and a source of luxury, Black Power Kitchen frames food as a form of love, but also a weapon — one that has long been wielded against communities like Ghetto Gastro’s in the Bronx.