SpotOn

JANUARY 14, 2025

Restaurants weren’t always about exclusive reservations and expertly fused small plates.   “Back in the day, you were served a restorative—a soup made from barley and onion with beer or whatever herbs you had at the time,” says Gordon. ” Renee Gordon is no historian.

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7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

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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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

Review mentions of “Back-owned” (and related terms) also skyrocketed, up 426 percent, as people look to support and surface these businesses to the community. During the peak of the pandemic, the number of diners seated across Yelp Reservations and Waitlist dropped essentially to zero. Yelp's Economic Impact Report.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 21, 2023

Culinary School Bonanza – Becoming a Chef is Cool: Not too long ago – cooks learned their trade and aspired to become a chef through in-house apprenticeship and the school of hard knocks. PART TWO: The Era of the Chef: Ah, now things really changed. The once restaurateur-centric restaurant was about to become chef-centric.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 16, 2022

The reservation book was full for tonight – more than 200 recorded and no room for walk-ins. Tom and everyone else knew that more than half of those reservations would be crammed into the 7:00 hour; so, there would be no room for mistakes and no patience for a lack of adequate mise en place. Your dictionary.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants turned to restaurant management apps to navigate this change, and it appears there’s no going back. The app is useful for both your front- and back-of-house staff, allowing them to check upcoming shifts, submit availability, request shift trades, and more. Try 7shifts for free.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants turned to restaurant management apps to navigate this change, and it appears there’s no going back. The app is useful for both your front- and back-of-house staff, allowing them to check upcoming shifts, submit availability, request shift trades, and more. Try 7shifts for free.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

“Now, more than ever, restaurateurs need an effective and affordable way to promote their restaurants to new and existing customers so they can bring them back again and again. TouchBistro Acquires TableUp. TouchBistro acquired Boston-based TableUp, a provider of loyalty and marketing solutions for the restaurant industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Restaurant industry insiders offer their insights on F&B trends we can expect to see in 2024. Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. The top items paired with ibuprofen included Cheesesteaks, Cognac, Nacho Fries, Bacon Egg and Cheese, and Cold Brew!

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the decades that have followed, places like Alloy (decorative cherry blossoms, pink walls), Model Milk (airy, multilevel dining areas), and Sukiyaki House (sushi counter displaying seafood flown in from Japan) — which offer experiences devoid of steak and ornate dark wood — have continued to change what diners expect of fine dining.

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EATER

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In 2025, a 350-acre Walmart campus is projected to open as its own self-contained community, complete with a food hall, hotel and rooftop bar, on-site childcare, parking garages, an amphitheater, bike paths, and a couple of lakes. Plating dishes at Conifer. All the while, the food scene has grown alongside the town.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2020

This dates back to the Renaissance, through this time of enlightenment, the growth of human intellect, during times of conflict and war, struggling through recession and depression, when the structure of society and its government seems to falter and of course, when times are great and life seems to glow with optimism.

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EATER

MAY 31, 2023

Wedged between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the 2,185-square-mile island is a popular vacation destination for Canadians, as well as Americans who treat themselves to the gorgeous drive along the coast up through Maine. But the famous bivalves don’t get all the attention.

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EATER

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Whistler experienced a boom in Japanese tourism in the ’80s, and though the groups in matching neon outfits headed back to Japan in the early ’90s after the decline of the yen, they left behind a standard of excellence in the town’s sushi restaurants, which have only multiplied since. The glow of nightlife in Whistler.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The capital, Boise, has led the boom (with a surge in housing prices to match), as remote workers migrated east from the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest in search of more space, cheaper rent, and a quieter lifestyle. New residents brought infusions of cash and interest, but they’re building on the area’s endearing underlying character.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. The Main Course. "We always viewed a podcast as a natural extension of the MRM brand," said Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia. "When Restaurant of the Future Panel.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

” Evidence of indirect and/or contractually reserved control over essential employment terms may be a consideration for finding joint-employer status under the final rule, but it cannot give rise to such status without substantial direct and immediate control. NLRB Issues Joint-Employer Ruling.

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EATER

MAY 26, 2021

The Handy Landing Tea Room and Store in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire | weirsbeach.com. For the first half of the 20th century, hungry travelers couldn’t do better than a roadside tea room. If you happened to be traveling from Washington, D.C. Lucky for you, it’s Sunday, when the restaurant offers 75-cent dinners of fried chicken or Smithfield ham.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We’re also likely to see a spike in the demand for data analysts in the back office, those who can help make sense of all the new data coming in from various digital channels. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their opinions on what we can expect in 2021. Here are their responses.

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EATER

AUGUST 17, 2021

Every service worker is just one a **e customer away from losing their minds On Sunday, HBO Now released the finale of The White Lotus , Mike White’s irreverent-yet-poignant series about the machinations and dramas of a luxury hotel in Hawaii. Image courtesy of HBO. Spoilers to follow.].

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

However, according to a 2019 report from the Federal Reserve Bank, 37 percent of all Americans could not cover an unexpected $400 expense without going into debt. This program, piloted last year, is designed to help KFC team members build short-term savings and create lasting savings behaviors.

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EATER

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A creation of Gabriella Khalil, the founder and creative director of Palm Heights, a Cayman Island boutique hotel that’s like flypaper for the fashionable, Habibi opened in June 2023. But here in the U.S., some restaurants have embraced the multi-sensory entertainment potential of eating food a little more than others. A toilet for two!”

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Despite the challenges posed by rising living costs and shifting consumer spending patterns, the food and hospitality sector continues to adapt to meet the needs and wants of consumers in Australia. Innovative trends are emerging, reshaping the industry landscape and offering fresh opportunities for growth. Source mccrindle.com.au

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EATER

APRIL 28, 2022

Living in the UP has never been easy, but Yoopers (and visitors) have found comfort in delicious pasties and cudighis, fresh maple syrup and berries, and lots of fried fish On a map, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula perches on top of Wisconsin looking a bit like a rabbit, its ears jutting into Lake Superior, back legs kicking into Lake Huron.

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EATER

MAY 3, 2022

The brand, gathered under the umbrella of Margaritaville Enterprises, LLC now includes dozens of restaurants across the globe, as well as hotels , casinos, cruises, retail locations, and retirement communities. $1.5 Margaritaville” may be Buffett’s only number-one hit, but Margaritaville is a kingdom, and Buffett, its laid-back king.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

" "It's going to be a long road back to normal," said Steven Hall. "Even In this edition of MRM News Bites, read about efforts to help the restaurant industry and heroes as well as "new normal" restaurant technology and products. Dining Bond Goes Global.

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EATER

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Don’t get used to it,” he once told Mike Ruffino, his composer for No Reservations and Parts Unknown. He remained ambivalent and suspicious of that thunderclap for the rest of his life. It’s gonna go away.”.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The shores of its glistening lakes, once the sites of large hotels, motels, and cottages, are lined with large vacation homes. The shores of its glistening lakes, once the sites of large hotels, motels, and cottages, are lined with large vacation homes. to help take care of the Powells’ house and daughters. Then, weekends only.

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EATER

AUGUST 3, 2022

Getty Images/EyeEm. The summer crowds can seem unrelenting — until you drive about two hours northwest to the high green mountains and river-crossed valleys of the Garfagnana. Garfagnana strikes the ideal balance between remote escape and accessible hotspot, perfect for travelers wanting to go beyond the picture-perfect Tuscany everyone else sees.

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EATER

APRIL 21, 2021

For many, hawker centers actually serve as the convenient kitchen for local housing flats,” says Leslie Tay, a family doctor who is also a culinary advocate and member of the government’s Workgroup on Sustaining the Hawker Trade. Situated in one of Singapore’s famed hawker centers, the stall was hot and tiny, even for kids.

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Restaurant Clicks

JUNE 3, 2021

Lulu’s is an unbelievably whimsical wine garden with beautiful dining areas in both the front and the back of the restaurant. The back patio leaves you believing you had been transformed to a beautiful European wine garden, complete with a running water fountain. Make a Reservation. Make a Reservation. Laos in Town.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guard and Grace Shanahan’s Steakhouse Elway’s Buckhorn Exchange Urban Farmer Quality Italian Del Frisco’s Grille Bastien’s Restaurant Ruth’s Chris Steak House Columbine Steak House & Lounge LoHi SteakBar The Capital Grille Denver 801 Chophouse EDGE Restaurant & Bar Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse Citizen Rail STK Steakhouse.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I went out and scoured the city high and low to find out who has the greatest steak, and I did not come back empty-handed. What used to be a bank built in 1902 now houses some of the finest cuts of steak money can buy. Make a Reservation. Cowford Chophouse. 101 E Bay St, Jacksonville, FL 32202 Phone: 904-862-6464 Visit Website.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This upscale Old Vegas-style restaurant has a menu centered around in-house aged, corn-fed beef plus Italian specialties, so if you’re not a big fan of steak and are visiting with someone who is, you’ll both walk away happy. It’s best to make a reservation; however, you may find seats at the bar if you arrive without one.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

There’s just something enrapturing about cruising down Seabreeze Boulevard lined with luxury hotels and gourmet restaurants and pulling into your favorite spot for a beautiful dinner by the water. Make a Reservation. Make a Reservation. No matter what you’re in the mood for, you’ll find it here. Shooters Waterfront.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Thames Street Oyster House Dylan’s Oyster Cellar Faidley’s Seafood L.P. Thames Street Oyster House. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Thames Street Oyster House (@thamesstreetoysterhouse). If you need more of an oyster fix, I recommend their house oyster shooter. Make a Reservation.

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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 2, 2021

You can even find restaurants with celebrity chefs such as Emeril Lagasse at Emeril’s New Orleans Fish House. Make a Reservation. Las Vegas, NV, is the definition of a city that never sleeps. Also known as Sin City, Vegas attracts tourists from all over the world which makes it a melting pot for various cultures. Oyster Bar.

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