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JUST DON’T KNOW OR JUST DON’T CARE

Culinary Cues

We hire and fire, increase pay, or add more staff, change restaurant menus or add convenience foods to reduce the need for qualified employees, or simply accept that poor attitudes and inconsistent product are just “the way it is.” So, here we are, fighting the effects of the disease of caring and knowing. Make this your benchmark.

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The 5 Things Food Vendors Don't Want You to Know

Embrace the Suck

You have a major food distributor in your market that you are probably buying from. It could be Sysco, US Foods, Performance Food Group, Ben E. Keith, Shamrock Foods, Gordon FoodService or another regional brand. Things don’t just get loaded onto a truck by little magical elves.

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How Little Italy Ristorante Turned Hours of Payroll Processing into Minutes

7 Shifts

They have grand expansion plans for Little Italy Ristorante, starting with a new food truck to cater events and scope potential restaurant locations. They're in the process of turning the old grocery store into a coffee shop, all while Avery mentors other operators in a restaurant coaching program.

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What We Lost in the Lahaina Fire

EATER

There were food trucks, farmer’s markets, and even temples that served specialty snacks. That didn’t stop him from messaging his Chef Hui colleagues: “Tag me in coach, I stay ready.” I had often wondered how they kept their doors open while donating food and staff to all these causes.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature Ono Food Co, DoorDash, Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice, Rouxbe, Presto, Burger King and Uber Eats, Pared, Tork, Restaurant Technologies, Willie Degel, Bolay, Ritual, Preoday and TISSL, AdTheorent and Voodoo Doughnut. Ono Food Co. Ono Blend Founders Daniel Fukuba and Stephen Klein.

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Face Pay Network, Restaurant of the Future and The Main Course

Modern Restaurant Management

US Foods Ghost Kitchens. US Foods Holding Corp. launched US Foods Ghost Kitchens, a program designed to guide restaurant operators every step of the way when opening their own operation, helping them easily add a new revenue stream.

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The Combination tp Real Restaurant Success

Embrace the Suck

Peter was a well-known and highly respected local businessman who built his fortune (around $65M) from his fire truck company. Yes, he built fire trucks. He had an overinflated sense of confidence that he had a product that few offered and he would be a huge success overnight just by offering his fire trucks to the world.