Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Of, course the food must be tasty and appealing at some level and above all else – consistent. How convenient you might ask: we barely need to slow down our cars and roll down the window when our food arrives – that’s convenience. Great food and drink and honest, sincere service can be the sunshine at the end of a not so terrific day.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

So, take a deep breath, kick a few empty five-gallon buckets around the kitchen (make sure they are empty), release a string of expletives if it makes you feel better, and take a few ibuprofens to address that constant headache. In the profound words of David Byrne: “Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. Elo’s Sonal Apte, vice president of retail and hospitality. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

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EATER

MARCH 1, 2022

Workers with World Central Kitchen are feeding refugees from Ukraine. World Central Kitchen. According to the United Nations, more than 660,000 Ukrainians have fled their homes in search of safety as war rages in their country. hospitality industry is doing to support — and feed — people in Ukraine during this crisis.

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EATER

APRIL 8, 2021

It is also a nonprofit that has spent 30 years training at-risk youth exiting the juvenile detention system to work in hospitality. Others were tasked with figuring out how the interns could take the skills they had learned in the restaurant and use them to make meals for food-insecure students, since schools had shut down.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This will manifest itself in several ways, such as informing robotics in the kitchen for food preparation, in addition to kitchen display systems (KDS) as restaurants kitchens seek to improve efficiency and better optimize for enhance prep station capacity management.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 5, 2020

but it will be your commitment to the safety of all involved that is the key to rebuilding a level of trust that will carry your operation through this tenuous time and on to an eventual renewal of prosperity. Consider if you were an employee in a senior center, a hospital worker, or a line worker in a meat processing plant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. Rick Camac, Dean of Restaurant & Hospitality Management at the Institute of Culinary Education. Ghost Kitchens. Jim Collins, CEO at Kitchen United.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

The brand’s commitment to each guest service experience is the focal point of upcoming menu innovation, value-based choices, and a portfolio of new organic food and beverage educational content. Noodles & Company Launches Ghost Kitchen. Noodles & Company launched its first ghost kitchen test in Chicago.

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EATER

JANUARY 14, 2021

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams distributing food | Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images. On the Eater’s Digest podcast, Eric Adams talks healthy eating, urban farming, and food deserts Later this year, the voters of America’s largest city will elect a new mayor. We are going to have a real problem around food.

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EATER

JUNE 26, 2020

The restaurant’s general manager, who asked that both her name and that of the restaurant remain anonymous because of the sensitivity surrounding hiring practices, says she’s able to offer these still-unemployed workers little more than daily check-ins and free food. I found a lot of loyalty in the team we were able to build here,” she says.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In the last year we’ve been able to really focus on growing our off-premise business, and we found that guests enjoy our home-style comfort food in the comfort of their own homes. Food delivery was an already booming industry, but when COVID hit it increased even more. Jockey Hollow Bar + Kitchen's Chris Cannon.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Pandemic-related materials, food, and labor shortages make running an independent restaurant near-impossible. Along with environmental conditions triggered by global warming, COVID has snarled supply chains across the world, and food supplies are no exception. Our food supply] is not all one supply chain,” he says.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

believes the coronavirus is not going to have a single blanket impact on all aspects of the economy or even the retail economy or food sector more specifically. 17 percent said they were just avoiding dining-in (opting to pick-up or have food delivered), with 10 percent appearing to lean toward Ordering for Pickup only.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

We are offering restaurateurs the opportunity to operate a second brand within their existing brick and mortar location, increasing their bottom line by also becoming a virtual kitchen owner.” General Mills Foodservice' s Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest will award $100,000 to restaurants and food trucks nationwide.

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The Restaurant Times

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Irfan Kuci is the Director of Business Development at Focus Hospitality Consulting (FHC), a growing consulting firm based in Dubai with expertise in Back of House (BOH) design, MEP design, interior design, F&B concept creation, project management, franchising as well as hotel/restaurant operational assessments.

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360Training

APRIL 16, 2020

Healthcare workers, truck drivers, and other essential workers may find the grocery shopping/cooking cycle impossible at the moment. Restaurants can help relieve that pressure by keeping commercial food supplies flowing to the public. The less that happens, the better, and you can’t direct that food to grocery stores overnight.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bill directs all operational and strategic planning and execution for the Applebee’s, Del Taco, MOD Pizza, Wendy’s and Olga’s Kitchen brands. He started his career with Hardee’s Food Systems in 1983 ending in the position of District Manager. Bill is a 1982 graduate of Michigan State University.

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Restaurant Engine

MAY 6, 2020

Employment in leisure and hospitality locations has already fallen by 459,000, primarily in food services and drinking locations. With fewer consumers willing to pay for food deliveries, restaurants are left scrambling to pay their remaining employees. Cheesecake Factory has an order option for curbside to-go.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

. “Over the last century, women, despite their incredible contributions, have struggled to make it in professional kitchens — held back by inequalities unfairly put upon them,” said Rob Sundy, Head of Brand Marketing & Creative Studios at Whirlpool Corporation, the parent company of the KitchenAid brand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Hospitality Recovery Coalition. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) announced the formation of the Hospitality Recovery Coalition with the goal of supporting on-premise partners, including restaurants, bars and distilleries, facing harsh economic impacts due to the COVID-19 crisis. NAB Acquires SALIDO.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Recognized employees include: Jessica Spinelli (Apopka, server), donating to the NICU at Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital: Jessica’s resilience doesn’t go unnoticed by her peers. Jessica’s donation will go towards the construction of the new NICU rooms / wing at the hospital.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

The safety of Dunkin’ franchisees, their restaurant employees, and guests remains a top priority. Taffer's Tavern, the new full service tavern concept created by Jon Taffer, signed a multi-unit franchise deal with Cuisine Solutions, a manufacturer of sous vide foods, to bring the ‘Kitchen of the Future’ to the D.C.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

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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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Ocean Spray is joining forces with Massachusetts Restaurant United and the COREcares Foundation for this hospitality stimulus, in addition to offering discounts on the brand’s cranberry products to support restaurants on the road to recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. “We put the safety of our employees first.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2021

In the coming months, restaurants across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma will undergo renovations without disrupting the amazing service and incredible food quality guests have come to love. Before and After. From now through May, KFC U.S. Along with a one-time product donation to Meals on Wheels America from KFC U.S.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Among grocery experiences, H-E-B and Whole Foods made it into the top rankings. Although food quality sometimes suffered due to the speed at which orders were ready before the customer arrived. The top performers – Whole Foods and Chick-Fil-A – had wait times that were far faster than those at the bottom.

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The Food Corridor

MARCH 27, 2023

And more and more often, whether we realize it or not, it’s also where we’re ordering our food. Introducing cloud kitchens , commercial facilities purpose-built to produce food specifically for delivery. Food delivery is nothing new, of course. Ghost kitchen business models What are the benefits of cloud kitchens?

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EATER

DECEMBER 23, 2020

When they finally decided to escape the deteriorating air quality, Kyle and Katina Connaughton packed their two cats, two dogs, and one of their two daughters (the other was in Boston) and her fiance into a farm truck and headed toward safety in Washington state. We’re communicating with the kitchen: ‘This is almost there.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

Chris Boyles, VP of Food Safety for Steritech. Ghost kitchens allow you to order from multiple brand menus at a single location. For fast food, as self-driving cars continue to become more sophisticated, the drive-thru may evolve for a pre-order lane. Here are their insights. We're already seeing lots of innovation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2020

Cheetah, an e-commerce platform offering contactless pickup and delivery of food and supplies, closed $36M in Series B funding led by Eclipse Ventures, with participation from ICONIQ Capital, Hanaco Ventures, and Floodgate Fund. who provided business advisory and restructuring services. Cheetah Secures Funding.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2025

Yelp analyzes the millions of reviews on its platform, along with nominations from its community of users, to generate a diverse list of local eateries, from food trucks to fine dining. This edition ranks the top fraud challenges faced by global food delivery and ride-hailing companies in 2024.

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EATER

MARCH 18, 2024

José Andrés | Photo: World Central Kitchen / Facebook World Central Kitchen just became the first group to send a ship carrying aid to Gaza. This comes after World Central Kitchen sent 1,400 aid trucks into Gaza and established 60 community kitchens in the region to serve hot meals.

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EATER

JUNE 12, 2023

Thai Diner mashes up diner eating with Thai food, serving traditional dishes like tom yum soup next to fries smothered in massaman curry. But the diner has been considered a model of culinary democratization in the American public consciousness since its earliest days as a horse-drawn food cart selling sandwiches and coffee.

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