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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

Specifically, technology and digitization has been coming to the front of house. Therefore, digitization and optimizing the back and front of house will increasingly become common and important.

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The Guide to Success with Ghost Kitchens for Restaurant Owners

7 Shifts

And like the 2008 financial crisis showed us the necessity of food trucks , the pandemic brought ghost kitchens into the light and accelerated their growth. No front of house staff, smaller spaces, and no need for prime real estate that all contribute to the lower costs. What are the benefits of a ghost kitchen model?

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This Restaurant’s Menu Shows It’s Not Just One Chef in Charge

EATER

Since it opened in 2008, Amanda Cohen’s Dirt Candy has been at the forefront of big shifts in how the restaurant industry can operate more responsibly and equitably, like plant-based charcuterie and the elimination of tipping. Even though I have an open kitchen, by and large most of my guests interact with the front of house.

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How this top Brooklyn restaurant is able to pay teams more than industry average

7 Shifts

But if you rewind to 2009, 2008 when I started cooking, it was heavily glorified and still is in a lot of places, and was seen as the only really meaningful metric to measure your career by, in gastronomy and this obsession with the chef-celebrity, and the chef is God, an artist, and genius. It [can be] abusive, it's toxic, it's exploitative.

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The 20/20 on 2020: Restaurant Experts Weigh In

Modern Restaurant Management

Combined with limited space for product storage given the need to devote space to front of house activities, restaurant managers will need creative solutions to make their business more efficient. In 2008, while most pizza brands thrived during the economic downturn, Hungry Howie’s sales were flat.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

EATER

I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago. By the end of the call, he was like, we invested in Tesla in 2008 when no one wanted to. I talked to some doctors who I know very well here in Chicago and said, “What do I need to do to protect our team?”

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David Chang’s Memoir Fails to Account for the Trauma He Caused Me

EATER

I am definitely not the intended audience for Eat a Peach : In 2008, I was hired as the corporate beverage director for Chang’s young empire; I held this job for seven months before I was fired without explanation. Dave was always quick to remind those of us who made up the front-of-house team of our general lack of expertise.