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Improving School Cafeteria Lunches Starts With Who’s in the Kitchen

EATER

When Primer learned of a program that would recruit school kitchen trainees and pay them to learn the tools of the trade, she immediately volunteered to host and train a few of the inaugural participants. The pandemic has left school kitchens across the country in dire need of workers. They’re cooking 10 different things at one time.

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Guillermo Herrera On The Significance of Menu Engineering and Cost control

The Restaurant Times

TRT- Staffing and recruitment is one of the key challenges facing the restaurant industry, especially during COVID times as you explained in your article on the 5 fundamental staffing steps and development tools for rate analysis.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Together they will provide integrated EPOS and digital ordering technologies to new and existing clients in the food and hospitality space. TISSL’s client portfolio ranges from independent coffee shops through to pub groups, fast food operations and Michelin starred restaurants.

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How I Got My Job: From Making Artisanal Jam to Public Service at SF City Hall and Beyond

EATER

I started the UPenn Student Labor Action Project, I did a lot of work on minority student and faculty recruitment and retention, and I was heavily involved in leading the on-campus multicultural multiethnic groups. People take food for granted. Food operates at intersections and should be included in any sort of policy.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

Module 4: Recruitment and Onboarding. “AI-powered robots play a primary role in the future of food service, and Blendid is committed to not only optimizing the consumer experience, but also helping food operators overcome labor shortages and post-pandemic demand complexities while improving operator margins.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Bad Ass Gets Bigger and New Prototype for Bagel Boss

Modern Restaurant Management

It started with an overhaul of existing branding, packaging and restaurant design for its national franchise stores and then followed with the recruitment of a seasoned senior leadership team. A&W is seeing a big uptick in interest from c-store operators, CEO Kevin Bazner said. 1 coffee hub in Tennessee,” Cody Rothwell.

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