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How Katie Button redesigned their wage model to adapt post-pandemic

7 Shifts

So I've done both sides of the restaurant, a lot of different jobs in the restaurant industry before my husband and I decided to move to Asheville, North Carolina to open Cúrate, our first restaurant, which we opened in 2011. And the only professional food I had cooked was Spanish food. And so the weighted tip pool works well.

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Dark Kitchen 101: Setting Up A Multi-Brand Operation

The Restaurant Times

As there is no front-of-house at all, multi-brand cloud kitchens have evolved to cater to numerous audiences, each functioning under a separate brand. Faasos, an Indian food-on-demand venture that was set up in 2011, has made impressive in-roads into the F&B market.

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HAGS Will Be Queer First, and a Restaurant Second

EATER

After a stint cooking in Atlanta, in 2011 Justice secured a job as a cook at a buzzy open kitchen restaurant in Philadelphia — with chefs essentially performing for a captive audience of diners sitting just feet away. “I didn’t have an awareness of kitchen culture at all. So in my mind, I was like, I am who I am. I love to cook.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Non-Traditional Dunkin’ and Boxing-Themed Concept

Modern Restaurant Management

” Founded in 2011, there are now 130-franchise locations. Operating a stand in a food hall, for instance, would eliminate the need for a dining area, front-of-house staff, fountain machines and more. Papa John's Expands DFSI Partnership. Papa John's International, Inc.,

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Tyga Bites and Sushi with an Attitude

Modern Restaurant Management

It can be used on any iOS or Android devices, providing a mobile POS for front-of-house staff to take customers’ orders or add to the digital tabs started by customers who scan the QR code on their table. Passion House Coffee. Marking the third location of the beloved roaster, the Dr.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

In 2008, on the tail of working her way around Chicago’s high-end kitchens and fronts of house — notably Alinea, the restaurant Achatz established in 2005 after leaving Trio; Schwa, a genre-breaking project from fellow Trio alum Michael Carlson; and the late Lettuce Entertain You high notes L2O and Tru — she began a pierogi-making business.

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#LifeOrDeathRecipe Challenge and ‘A Woman’s Place’

Modern Restaurant Management

” Karyn Tomlinson, who graduated from Le Cordon Bleu in France, and on her first day on the job was told to go to the front of house for service. Sweadner Society of the Fairfield County’s Community (FCC) Foundation and the FCC Board of Trustees in 2011.