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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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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

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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The 20/20 on 2020: Restaurant Experts Weigh In

Modern Restaurant Management

Menus need to diversify to keep patrons coming back for more, but more personalized options mean more training for staff. 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.

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

EATER

For 15 years , Stone Barns had been as much an education center as a farm, devoted to turning schoolkids into engaged “ food citizens ” and training young farmers. that emphasized the interconnectedness of food, the environment, nutrition, and culture, and offered free, annual training conferences for educators willing to implement it.