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

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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 19 Most Funnest, Most Wildest, Most Unbelievably Extra Restaurants in America

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Music pumps from unknown corners, and boisterous servers wear army fatigues — not in a bossy way that feels serious but in a kind of warped, fun way like the cop from the Village People. The restaurant group was bought by Planet Hollywood in 2008.) Make a reservation in advance for group dinners. Nobody knows!

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

At First Watch, we will continue to lean into our off-premise offerings and differentiate our native channels through incentives such as reserving our popular and rotating seasonal items for guests who order directly. Contactless technology is only the beginning as we focus on limiting human interaction, touch and communication.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. She founded Virtus Wines International in 2008, dba Wheelhouse Libations, and The SIP Agency.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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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

At Yelp, we're seeing restaurants move away from a strictly reservations planning model. Restaurateurs are valuing a hybrid approach to reservations and running a waitlist to manage their floor and seat more diners, especially during the holiday season. If you haven't already seen that, it's a big deal.

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

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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. Tickets to every type of Stone Barns experience are sold via Tock , a reservation platform used by high-end restaurants.