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Staying Nimble: The Secret to Filling Your Development Pipeline 

Modern Restaurant Management

Wouldn’t it be great if filling your development pipeline was as easy as filling your cup at a soda machine? Imagine being able to press a button and have a steady stream of “A” locations on tap, including coveted properties in premier communities, high-visibility drive-through sites, and icon locations, ready and waiting for your concept.

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JUST DON’T KNOW OR JUST DON’T CARE

Culinary Cues

It’s a disease that seems to creep into the mainstream; a disease that can be kept in check if there is a desire to do so; a disease, in other words, within our ability to thwart. This disease is highly contagious without concern for age, gender, socio-economic status, education level, or factors related to a person’s focus on a healthy lifestyle. This is a disease that lies dormant in many people just waiting to take over their every being if those in positions of leadership allow it to.

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RB's Peter Romeo wins Texas Restaurant Association's Excellence in Journalism Award

Restaurant Business

The honor recognizes a media professional who has aided the industry by providing an explanation to operators and the general public of what's happening in the business and why it matters.

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Freezer Face-Off: Comparing Classic Foods With Their ‘Fancier’ Upgrades

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater Can a frozen pizza bagel really be improved? Does it need to be? When I was growing up in the ’90s, frozen food signaled a sense of independence to me. I’d walk home from school and take a peek in the freezer to see what would become my after-school snack: a chicken pot pie from Marie Callender’s, a plate of fish sticks, or pizza bagels were typically on the menu.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Here's what we know about the new owner of MOD Pizza

Restaurant Business

Elite Restaurant Group has been an active buyer over the years. But what are MOD's sister brands within the group's portfolio now?

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What Does a Host Do at a Restaurant? From Greeting to Seating and Everything in Between.

SpotOn

The restaurant host or hostess is the first person you see when you walk in and the last person to say goodbye as you leave. But they're more than just a pretty face. The host has a unique set of duties and responsibilities that ensure the restaurant's front-of-house runs smoothly. The job description includes table management, managing reservations, and ensuring a stellar guest experience.

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Perennial Roses

Sante

Unlike many rose gardens, our annuals flourish in the heat of the summer. The post Perennial Roses appeared first on Santé Food Wine Spirits.

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How will the Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling affect restaurants?

Restaurant Business

Working Lunch: The podcast from Align Public Strategies also delves into an idea to eliminate taxes on tips as well as developments in Ohio and Massachusetts.

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How the Air Fryer Sparked a Frozen Food Revolution

EATER

Subin Yang Frozen fries and pizza rolls will never be the same For better and for worse, frozen foods have played a significant role in the American diet for a century. Exactly 100 years ago, Clarence Birdseye invented a quick-freezing method that preserved the quality and nutritional content of most foods, and in so doing birthed a revolution. The last century brought a veritable arms race of frozen food innovation — the TV dinner was invented in 1953, the modern marvel that we know today as To

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Why MOD Pizza is not out of the woods yet

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: The fast-casual pizza chain was sold last week to Elite Restaurant Group. But few who’ve seen the finances believe the company can avoid closing large numbers of stores.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Bring Back the Mojito Caballito

EATER

The Mojito Caballito is a forgotten rum cocktail recipe from Sloppy Joe’s in Havana, Cuba. Houston bar Lei Low is bringing it back.

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12 big complaints franchisees have with franchising

Restaurant Business

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission recently listed some of the biggest concerns franchisees expressed during public comments last year.

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Make Ice Cube Trays the Unsung Heroes of Your Freezer

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater Freeze coffee, soup, curry paste, and more for easy storage and cooking Although I am fortunate to have an ice maker in my freezer (a luxury I have immense gratitude for), you’ll still find a stack of ice cube trays in there, too. But they’re not filled with water — instead, you’ll find cubes of soup, curry paste, coffee, and whatever other liquid leftovers I have that need freezing.

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Automated beverage system Botrista lands investment from Jollibee Foods

Restaurant Business

The Philippines-based owner of Jollibee and Smashburger called Botrista’s DrinkBot machine a “game-changer.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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Influential Portland Chef Naomi Pomeroy Has Died at Age 49

EATER

Pomeroy died in an inner tubing accident over the weekend

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The Move: Buy All Your Dishes at the Museum Gift Shop

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater Outfit your dining table with dishware that’s a work of art — or at least inspired by one There seem to be two styles of popular housewares that make their way around the internet. First there are the impeccably chic ceramics in all manner of beige, handmade and certainly impressive but doing nothing to make my heart sing. And then there is the stuff with blobs of color and whimsical visual references that seems so self-consciously kitschy I can’t imagine incorporating it into

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The Lights Aren’t All On, But Creativity Endures at Houston Restaurants After Beryl

EATER

Restaurants like Cochinita & Co.

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