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Restaurant Owners Describe Their New Reality

Restaurant Engine

“I was literally about to start the process of trying to set up my restaurant this year, and this all happened,” says Sarah Moody. Commiserating in a similar catch-22 is Yuka Ioroi, co-owner of San Francisco’s Cassava restaurant. restaurants have ended 22,039 jobs from the start of the year through August 4.

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Franchising in the Metaverse: With Great Promise Comes Great Responsibility

Modern Restaurant Management

The "metaverse" is a general term used to describe any of the virtual universes where people can interact with one another in a shared, immersive environment. Implementing technologies such as private blockchain for asset ownership tracking is one way brands can oversee content ownership activities.

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Scheduling Strategies to Prevent Employee Burnout and Survive This Holiday Season

Modern Restaurant Management

In the last few months, restaurants across the country from San Francisco to Cape Cod have announced closures to give staff a much-needed mental health break. Most restaurant owners would be loath to shutter their doors, especially as customer demand has jumped compared to 2020. Burnout among restaurant workers is nothing new.

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The Biggest Restaurant Makeover in New York City

EATER

How the owners behind HAGS turned a famous — and famously dark and cramped — Momofuku space into a colorful restaurant that’s decidedly queer My first time walking into HAGS, a queer fine dining destination in the East Village, I thought I would be flooded with memories. The transformation was sort of an amazing feat.

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The Ultimate Guide to Getting a Restaurant Business Loan

7 Shifts

Starting a successful restaurant requires passion, hard work and persistence. It also requires money to open a restaurant and build it out, buy equipment and finance the operation until it reaches break-even. Create a Restaurant Business Plan. Getting Your Restaurant Business Loan. Table of Contents. Table of Contents.

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There Really Is No Ethical Restaurant Under Capitalism

EATER

Building an equitable restaurant — where all workers are paid fairly, have benefits, and work without discrimination — will require undoing the way most restaurants are run. The only ethical restaurant I have ever heard of is on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In the kitchen, there is a hierarchy.

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It’s Time to Forget the Old Rules of Wine Pairing

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Because drinking what you like shouldn’t be hard On any given night in the pre-pandemic days, there was a four-top at a restaurant with a small-share-plates-so-order-several-items-and-I’ll-course-it-out-for-you type of menu, and, inevitably, someone in the group would want the sommelier to recommend a wine to pair. The New Rules.

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