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How this top Brooklyn restaurant is able to pay teams more than industry average

7 Shifts

But if you rewind to 2009, 2008 when I started cooking, it was heavily glorified and still is in a lot of places, and was seen as the only really meaningful metric to measure your career by, in gastronomy and this obsession with the chef-celebrity, and the chef is God, an artist, and genius. It [can be] abusive, it's toxic, it's exploitative.

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The 20/20 on 2020: Restaurant Experts Weigh In

Modern Restaurant Management

Low priced / value perceived / big ticket items brought down to a fixed low price. The utilization of ghost kitchens means more money and opportunity for restaurant operators, without large price or labor hikes. With the loss of foot traffic, restaurants are forced to increase menu prices to compensate.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

EATER

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. Your price points can get out of whack if people can build up their own menus and whatnot.