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What It Cost to Keep Two Restaurants Open During the Pandemic Without Outdoor Dining or Delivery

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Sales for Big King and North totaled nearly $2 million in 2019, with 65,000 in-person guests served. Big King didn’t offer takeout at all before the pandemic, and North’s takeout represented only 5 percent of the two restaurants’ combined sales in 2019, so the move to a takeout-only model was a big change. Sales changes.

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What It Cost to Keep Two Restaurants Open During the Pandemic Without Outdoor Dining or Delivery

EATER

Sales for Big King and North totaled nearly $2 million in 2019, with 65,000 in-person guests served. Big King didn’t offer takeout at all before the pandemic, and North’s takeout represented only 5 percent of the two restaurants’ combined sales in 2019, so the move to a takeout-only model was a big change. Sales changes.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

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During the peak of the pandemic, the number of diners seated across Yelp Reservations and Waitlist dropped essentially to zero. See clean in action through front-of-house products, procedures and signage. The importance of the price of offering lowered from 78 percent to 50 percent. Dining During COVID. percent to 77.9.

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NLRB Joint Employer Final Rule and America’s Classics

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” Evidence of indirect and/or contractually reserved control over essential employment terms may be a consideration for finding joint-employer status under the final rule, but it cannot give rise to such status without substantial direct and immediate control. owner of the Chili's® Grill & Bar brand. "Yelp

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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In 2019, Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ most recent full year of operation, it started at $258 per person; tickets to dinner currently cost between $348 and $398. A former front-of-house employee who left in 2020 says, “The goal is for us all to go out and take what we’ve learned and do great things, but what are we learning?

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

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We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery. In the front of house, we are seeing more kiosk adoption. Guests will demand a personalized journey when food is delivered to their door.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

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Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. I saw their reservations go from 96% occupancy to zero. I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago.