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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.

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

7 Shifts

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. For front-of-house staff, tipping provides an incentive to provide excellent service and then be rewarded for this hard work. The Pros and Cons of 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. I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago. DG: And the normal price? NK: Normal price for Alinea is 350 bucks or so when you’re all in going there.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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A formally trained creative writer — she earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College in Chicago in 2005 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2022 — Regan used menus to corral the details of a chaotic early life into submission before she published an actual book.

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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.