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

EATER

California’s $45 million program to train more cafeteria aims for better, healthier meals — but labor shortages remain a significant challenge This story was originally published on Civil Eats. During the pre-apprenticeship, Flores trained at one of the district’s middle schools. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

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McDonald’s Considers Radical Concepts Like Emergency Childcare to Entice Workers

EATER

The service staffing crisis has some restaurants attempting extreme means to attract workers — you know, like the basic human rights that should have been there all along The reopening phase of the pandemic is long underway in most parts of the country, but fast-food operators are still struggling to find enough workers to staff their restaurants.

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Pastry Chefs Aren’t Disappearing — We’re Evolving

EATER

A cottage food operation allows people to produce foods in their homes that aren’t seen as hazardous, such as bread, pastry, and jams. Moua is looking forward to opening her cafe and bakery, where she will blend traditional Hmong home cooking with French pastry technique, combining her heritage and her classic training.

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Predictive Scheduling: What It Is and How To Implement With Success In Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

Retail and fast food operations with 500+ employees globally, and full-service operations with 500+ employee and 40+ restaurants globally. - . - 14 days' notice for schedules - Written estimates of minimum shifts per month - If on call and not required, employees must be paid 2-4 hours - At least 3 years of shift records.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Consumers want amazing food that is as good, if not better than, dishes centered around meat. Most chefs, however, have not been trained in cooking a plant-based diet, at least not on a heightened level. Gathering of visual content to identify potential coaching and training opportunities. ” Presto's New Vision.

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Complete guide to hotel restaurant management

SiteMinder

Hiring talented hospitality staff and providing quality training to new starters will help with the running of your establishment. Guests are also becoming increasingly savvy with sustainability and expect hotels to be actively reducing waste across their operations.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Opportunity is Barking and the Spirit of BBQ

Modern Restaurant Management

Blendid's proprietary food operating system (foodOS™) processes the orders and payment, measures and dispenses precise amounts of ingredients for customized drinks, blends, pours, and stores each smoothie until a guest is ready for pickup. ” Freddy's Eyes Southeast.

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