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The Evolution of Restaurant Technology: What’s Next?

Modern Restaurant Management

We would take all our invoices, mail them to the accountants and they would process all the invoices for us in financial reports. In 2005 when I started, we had OpenTable for reservations and a POS, but that's about it. I don’t remember any reporting other than inventory reports. Bo Davis and Roy Phillips.

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I Scream, You Scream, and the Dogs Are Barking for Ice Cream

EATER

In 2005, Frosty Paws pulled in about $10 million in sales a year, within a pet industry that accounted for $35 billion a year. Speaking with SFGATE in 2005 about the then-new Frosty Paws peanut butter flavor, the dog ice cream inventor Tyznik concluded, accurately, “It’s for the human, not the dog.”

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The History of Tipping in Restaurants: The Complicated Past, Present, and Future

7 Shifts

Thomas Keller nixed tipping at Per Se in 2005. Hourly wage doesn't always reflect performance, but tips can account for this. Even since restaurants have gone back and forth between tipping and no-tipping. Alice Waters implemented a service charge at Chez Panisse as early as the 1980s.

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Stephen H. Marcus named chairman emeritus of The Marcus Corporation

Hotel Business

Joining the company in 1962 after working in accounting and law, he oversaw a period of tremendous growth and change, including taking the company public and growing the organization to what is today the fourth largest movie theatre circuit in the nation, a hospitality and lodging company, and employer to more than 8,000 associates across 18 states.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Randy’s Donuts Plans Rise and Burger King Makes Sustainable Commitment

Modern Restaurant Management

” Founded in 2005 in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville, Twin Peaks now has 80 locations in 25 states. I have always enjoyed Twin Peaks and believed it was a great concept with its delicious scratch-made food, 29-degree beer and sports viewing atmosphere. Freddy's Names CEO. " Wolfnights Looks to Grow.

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Blending tradition with technology: HotelPartner’s MD on the future of hotel revenue management

Hotel Owner

In 2005, he founded two successful restaurants in London’s Balham and Fulham neighbourhoods, which he later sold in 2012. Later, he returned to London, working in both the accounts department of the Royal Garden Hotel and at the reception of the Four Seasons.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Krystal Refranchising and Pieology in China

Modern Restaurant Management

Das and Patel are the first new franchisees to join Krystal since 2005. ” After spending nearly two decades as a certified public accountant, Vandy was interested in identifying a franchise concept that would allow him the freedom to work as an entrepreneur, trading in his cubicle for a career focused on his love of wine.