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What is a Virtual Restaurant? And How to Start One

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Virtual restaurant concepts only exist in apps, and use ‘ ghost kitchens ’ (aka ‘virtual kitchens’ or ‘dark kitchens’) to serve a virtual menu to virtual customers. A Ghost Restaurant take orders through online apps (like Uber Eats, Grubhub, and Skip the Dishes) and prepare food exclusively for pick-up, take-out and delivery customers.

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What Is The Pumpkin Spice Latte?

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For baristas and coffee shops, it means customers moving away from summer beverages like cold brew and iced coffee in favour of warming seasonal drinks like the pumpkin spice latte. Before the pumpkin spice latte, there was pumpkin pie: a seasonal dessert that’s been enjoyed in the USA for centuries as a Thanksgiving staple.

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5 Ways to Develop Your Restaurant's Tip Strategy, According to Experts

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Union Square Hospitality Group , headed by Danny Meyer, famously eliminated tips in 2015. Everything was built into the menu price. I wanna point out, part of the challenge was that building everything into the menu price for an Asian restaurant was met with pushback that an ethnic restaurant needed to be a little cheaper.

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Nikki Drake Named Bar Director of 2941 Restaurant

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With her new appointment comes the debut of 14 new seasonal libations spotlighting autumnal spirits. With her appointment comes the introduction of new cocktails, each highlighting fresh ingredients from the season's bounties. A year later in September 2015, she went on to work Two NineTeen Restaurant in Old Town, Alexandria.

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WILDER RESTAURANT AND BAR TO OPEN ON 16TH OCTOBER AT BOUNDARY LONDON, SHOREDITCH

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Inspired by McLellan’s supper clubs of the same name, where each dish included a wild element, the menu at Wilder will have many wild components from around London and other parts of the UK, many picked by McLellan himself. Sourdough bread will be made using beremeal, an ancient grain found on the island of Orkney.

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How Katie Button redesigned their wage model to adapt post-pandemic

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As a chef, Katie was named one of Food & Wine magazine's Best New Chefs of 2015 and has had more than a few James Beard Award nods. That discrepancy was most noticeable during the holiday season, when the restaurant is busier than ever. We're seeing that the really nice thing is in the slow season also.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The National Restaurant Association released its 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry Report which examines key factors impacting the restaurant industry including the current state of the economy, operations, workforce, and food and menu trends across segments from quickservice to fine dining. The report notes that wage growth in the U.S.

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