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These 6 Restaurants Just Won the 2025 James Beard America’s Classics Award

EATER

William A. Morgan/Shutterstock Americas Classics honors locally owned restaurants that have timeless appeal and mark the real start of Beards season James Beard Awards season is here! After revealing the long list of 2025 Restaurant and Chef Awards semifinalists last month, today, the foundation names the recipients of its Americas Classics Awards.

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From Recipe to Retail: Steps to Create a Sellable Product

Modern Restaurant Management

Are your customers always asking to take home some extras of your salsa, BBQ sauce, or house salad dressing? Do you think there might be a market to actually sell it; first at your restaurant and then to local retailers/grocers but you have no idea where do you start? Do you just make “extra batches” and bottle it in your restaurant kitchen and slap a label on it?

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The Best Housewarming Gifts (That You’ll Want for Yourself)

EATER

A last-minute bottle of wine feels boring compared to a pickle crock, pasta-water-scented candle, or whole ham leg Housewarming gifts are tricky. They are tricky by scale: larger than a host gift, smaller than a wedding gift. And they are tricky by kind: housewarming gifts should be practical and also personal both to the person giving the gift and to the household receiving it.

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How to Read a Restaurant P&L (Profit and Loss) Statement + Free Template

SpotOn

Joe Nicholson was a manager and tech consultant at one of the busiest restaurants in Sacramento, CA—Tower Cafe. Now, as a copywriter at SpotOn, he helps restaurant owners and managers learn how to run a more profitable operation. Restaurant P&L statements can be downright confusing. Prime costs. Contribution margins. Direct operating expenses.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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A look into Starbucks' marketing strategy shift

Restaurant Business

A Deeper Dive: Dawn Kane, CEO of Hot Dish Advertising, joins the restaurant finance podcast to talk about Starbucks, Chilis and the best strategies to break through the marketing clutter.

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How to Keep Your Food Processor Functional

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Nicole Medina/Eater Keep your blade sharp, your bowl clean, and your motor running A food processor is the ultimate workhorse: It shreds cheese, dices peppers, effortlessly turns chickpeas into a silky hummus, and does it all with an almost smug efficiency. Its the best thing in your kitchen. Until, that is, its time to disassemble and clean it. Cleaning a food processor can be a nightmare wrapped in a puzzle, wrapped in the very real possibility of slicing off a small portion of your hand.

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How Clemente Bar Designed a Five-Course, $225 Cocktail Menu

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How Clemente Bar, a cocktail bar above Eleven Madison Park, developed its five-course $225 menu, according to its beverage director.

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Sweetgreen bets you'll want fries with that salad

Restaurant Business

Ripple Fries are rolling out systemwide in March. Expect to hear more menu news from the fast-casual chain after a rough start to the year.

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An award-winning chef offers a taste of Greenland's history and culture through food

The Salt

Chef Inunnguaq Hegelund is working to preserve Greenland's Indigenous food traditions by giving importance to ingredients and how they are sourced. He calls this new Arctic cuisine.

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Starbucks is cutting more drinks from its menu

Restaurant Business

The coffee shop chain is removing 13 drinks from its offerings on Tuesday and plans more cuts as it culls 30% of its menu by this fall.

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Future-Proof Your Talent Pipeline

Get ready for the future of business. As HR navigates an ongoing labor shortage, leaders need stronger, more adaptable recruiting strategies. Do you have the tools you need to build a talent pipeline that drives sustainable business growth?

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Here comes Portillo's app-less loyalty program

Restaurant Business

Late to the game but offering something different, the fast-casual chain expects to launch its Perks program in March.

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Outback Steakhouse to slash menu by nearly 20%

Restaurant Business

The change is part of a wholesale turnaround plan at the struggling steak chain that also includes a new marketing strategy and slower unit development.

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Marc Lore wants AI to feed you

Restaurant Business

The CEO of Wonder is pushing to change the restaurant business. But he has bigger goals than that, including a superapp that could choose all your meals.

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Restaurants lean into Lent with seafood specials

Restaurant Business

Taste Tracker: Einstein Bros. does bagels Southern-style; a Mediterranean collab for Velvet Taco; Scooters, Krak Boba and Sonic pick strawberries for sipping; toasted sandwiches arrive at Jimmy Johns; and more menu news of the week.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.