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Damien Neylon returns to Brae in new role

Hospitality Magazine

Hunter and Neylon first met back in 2008 when Neylon was an apprentice at the Royal Mail Hotel. After the restaurant shuttered last year, Neylon took on various gigs from guest cheffing at Samesyn Restaurant in Torquay to working as part of the front of house team at Etta.

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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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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.

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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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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

She founded Virtus Wines International in 2008, dba Wheelhouse Libations, and The SIP Agency. White has more than 30 years of demonstrated success in promotional marketing, distributor management, and sales of luxury wines, craft spirits, and beer from around the world.

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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.