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The Guide to Success with Ghost Kitchens for Restaurant Owners

7 Shifts

There's no dining room, no storefront, no servers, and in some cases not so much as a sign. And like the 2008 financial crisis showed us the necessity of food trucks , the pandemic brought ghost kitchens into the light and accelerated their growth. No servers to catch problems before they reach the customer.

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David Chang’s Memoir Fails to Account for the Trauma He Caused Me

EATER

I am definitely not the intended audience for Eat a Peach : In 2008, I was hired as the corporate beverage director for Chang’s young empire; I held this job for seven months before I was fired without explanation. Dave was always quick to remind those of us who made up the front-of-house team of our general lack of expertise.

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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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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

She founded Virtus Wines International in 2008, dba Wheelhouse Libations, and The SIP Agency. Early adopters such as Stone Brewing, Barcelona Wine Bar and Ballast Point Brewing Company have been able to leverage GoTab to optimize their servers’ time, work and interactions with customers to ensure a better guest experience.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

It was served with accompaniments, one of which was an asparagus relish; at another table, the server was explaining how he’d seen the chef arranging the asparagus on her bread like dragon scales while testing out the recipe. Nothing outwardly distinguished her from the other servers, unless you already knew who she was.

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The 20/20 on 2020: Restaurant Experts Weigh In

Modern Restaurant Management

Combined with limited space for product storage given the need to devote space to front of house activities, restaurant managers will need creative solutions to make their business more efficient. In 2008, while most pizza brands thrived during the economic downturn, Hungry Howie’s sales were flat.

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

EATER

In 2008, it held the first-annual Young Farmers Conference, bringing together more than 170 early-career farmers to participate in networking events and two dozen educational workshops. Blue Hill at Stone Barns returned in the fall of 2021 with Barber once more at the helm.