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Automation Proves To Be a Necessity for Restaurants During COVID

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Nowadays, though, owners and managers unable financially to bring back their full complement of staff are relying on the technology to facilitate almost everything with a food order, except make it. The approach was used during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak, as well as in the SARS outbreak in 2003.

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Unpeeling the Layers: How Do Food Banks Actually Work?

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Lille Allen Organizations like Feeding America support the nations food-insecure communities. She told me she had been trying to figure out how to get a turkey from a food pantry; she had fallen on her hip recently, complicating existing mobility issues. I made a note to check into regular food deliveries from a local service.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-September 2021 Edition

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15 percent have ordered alcoholic beverages with food for delivery or takeout, on par with the 18 percent of Canadians that say they’re likely to do this. “The developments and improvements made to delivery and takeout containers, food quality and speed have made a lasting, positive impression,” says Barclay.

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Sweetgreen’s IPO Proves, Once and for All, That It’s a Big Boy Tech Company

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As Dan Primack at Axios points out , those losses reported in the IPO filing — occurring every year since 2014 — contradict the chain’s claims in 2018 and 2019 that it was profitable. In a 2018 interview with Recode, co-founder Jonathan Neman described the chain as a “food platform,” not simply a restaurant.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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location debuted in Midtown Atlanta in 2014 and the brand has since opened 11 other locations around metro Atlanta. – Lars Kristiansen , VP Food and Beverage of Oasis Marinas Next year, although getting better, I anticipate continued labor shortages to persist, impacting management, the kitchen and front of house.

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Who’s Paying for the Great Delivery Wars?

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It’s probably not Uber Eats, Postmates, or Grubhub 2020 was an undeniably big year for food delivery. Benefitting the most from this disruption to an already broken food supply chain are third-party delivery apps, such as UberEats, Grubhub, and DoorDash. Seamless and Grubhub merged in 2014, the same year Uber launched UberEats.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

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Good Food Restaurant Scorecard. Despite skyrocketing demand for plant-based food across the U.S., 42 of the country’s favorite fast food and restaurant chains still don’t offer a plant-based entrée, according to a report released today by The Good Food Institute (GFI).