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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

Modern Restaurant Management

" Pandemic Pivots Become Permanent The temporary "pivots" developed during the pandemic — expanded delivery services, outdoor dining options, to-go alcohol offerings, and investments in technology — are the foundation of the industry's "new normal."

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Q1 2022 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

District Court Denies Restaurant Industry Request to Halt New Tip Credit Regulations : On February 22, 2022, a Texas district court denied an emergency motion for a preliminary injunction brought by the Restaurant Law Center and the Texas Restaurant Association. Violations are punishable by a fine, with a maximum of $300/year.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Combining our backgrounds in tech, automation, and culinary fine dining, we knew we could fill this void to give more people access to healthy, high-quality food.” Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice Group are coming together to strengthen their OEM (original equipment manufacturer) parts distribution capabilities.

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Ghost Lemonade, Robotic Barista and Flippy for Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

Staff are able to shift to front of the house roles where needs have increased for customer service-oriented activities like heavier and regular cleaning regimes, delivery and takeout order fulfillment, and outdoor ordering and hosting. ” Lunchbox News.

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A Decidedly Un-Rockwellian Thanksgiving

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Last year, I wrote up some tips and tricks for people choosing to host a nontraditional Thanksgiving. On a sandwich, it’s fine. You don’t need a dining table. You might not be able to fit everything on the table, and that’s totally fine. Tip extra well here, too.). This year, to state the obvious, looks different.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

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Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. We don’t distribute all of our money. Our dining rooms are production facilities. You cannot open your dining room. We are mapping out outdoor spaces now with six feet apart.

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Orange Is the New Yolk

EATER

In an Instagram reel from last year, a pair of disembodied hands tips a large metal bowl full of neon-orange yolks into a well of flour, an act whose ostensible purpose is to make fresh pasta but whose effect is to freak me out. All of this copywriting is telling the same story, which can be summed up as “We’re not like them!”