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[Podcast] Staying Ahead of the Curve of What Customers Want

7 Shifts

Mijo Alanis opened the first Beyond Juicery + Eatery in 2005 alongside his wife, Pam Vivio, after working in the restaurant industry for many years. I saw it in the bus tub, and I would ask the servers, “why are they not eating their hamburger buns and French fries?”

Server 78
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The History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future

7 Shifts

When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. Its founder, George Pullman, hired newly liberated Southern black men as porters and servers. Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. If a server or bartender makes federal or state minimum wage, then tips offer the opportunity to make 2-5 times this hourly wage.

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How I Got My Job: From Bartending to Building a Drinks Company and Founding a Nonprofit

EATER

I was a server at a French cafe in the town where I grew up in Connecticut. When I graduated college, I had a job investigating allegations of police misconduct for the city of New York from 2005 to 2007. Funnily enough, my first job was in the restaurant industry, but I didn’t come back to it for about 10 years.

Book 85
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At Indian American Weddings, More Is More

EATER

But Moghul Catering as it is today really took off in 2007, when Kamal Arora bought the wedding business from the Methanis after initially joining as a catering manager in 2005. Moghul designated a server to flip piping hot rotis, naans, and parathas on a small induction stove, smearing them with even more butter.

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Who Does Pasta Belong To?

EATER

At another restaurant down the street, servers balance plates of potato ñoquis and jigote, a local potato and beef casserole. Like her fried empanadas, the sauce smells of paprika, or pimentón, made with red peppers that are grown, dried, and ground into a powder at the start of every year in the valleys surrounding Belén.

Server 120
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How Andolini’s Uses 7shifts To Help Schedule With Empathy: Case Study

7 Shifts

Mike Bausch and his brother Jim opened their first location, Andolini's Pizzeria , in 2005, and have since expanded the business to include multiple locations of Andolini's as well as other restaurant concepts including pizzerias, slice shops, food trucks, and fine dining restaurants. And all of the roles have different rates of pay.

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A Fool’s Choice

EATER

But while invigorating, she realizes that her role as a restaurant server with sights set on a career in the industry might be incompatible with her other roles: spouse to John and mother of two. Monica Burton. And she behaved like it. She knew it.

Server 139