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P.F. Chang’s To Go and Wing Squad Delivers

Modern Restaurant Management

.” The reduction of traditional labor and overhead costs are slashed by utilizing existing restaurants and delivery services, meaning Wing Squad is able to provide a superior product to consumers (Wing Squad's wings have no antibiotics or preservatives), at an affordable price. New Branding for Fish City Grill. Paul, Minn.

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The History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future

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Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. And Danny Meyer created the Hospitality Included service model, increasing menu prices to offset higher wages. Hourly wage doesn't always reflect performance, but tips can account for this. Even since restaurants have gone back and forth between tipping and no-tipping.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

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Depends how you count, I guess, but we have Alinea, which is the flagship, and we opened that in 2005. DG: And the normal price? NK: Normal price for Alinea is 350 bucks or so when you’re all in going there. Do not send that money out and put it in your bank account, your personal bank account, keep it in the business.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-February 2020-Valentine’s Day Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

May, June, July, and August each account for at least 9 percent of total yearly spending. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimated that in 2005, one third of all food available for human consumption was wasted (in this context, “waste” refers to food fit for human consumption which went uneaten).

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

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Hundreds of teachers adopted the program, carrying Stone Barns’ message beyond its tony Pocantico Hills campus — in 2016, it noted that the “vast majority of participating students come from economically disadvantaged communities, with 72 percent qualifying for free or reduced-price school lunch.”. Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images.

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I’m Shillin’ It

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Throughout the 2000s, McDonald’s would continue to revisit that well and expand its reach into urban demographics, picking subsequent brand partnerships with artists like Beyoncé Knowles’s original girl group Destiny’s Child , which filmed a commercial for McDonald’s in 2005 (McD’s also sponsored their tour).

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MRM Franchise Feed: Randy’s Donuts Plans Rise and Burger King Makes Sustainable Commitment

Modern Restaurant Management

” Founded in 2005 in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville, Twin Peaks now has 80 locations in 25 states. ’ We’re one of the only restaurants serving filet mignon and lobster at fast food prices.” I can’t wait to help this best-in-class brand grow as we bring Twin Peaks to more of Florida.”

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