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

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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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Why You Must Change Your Approach to Loyalty by 2021 

Modern Restaurant Management

The year 2020 has brought with it many changes, whether social or medical, the happenings of the last few months will have a lasting impact on the food and hospitality industry and the consumers that make use of it. For any restaurants and food operators that haven’t yet formed a loyalty program, now is the time to do so.

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A Tribute to Feisty, Foul-Mouthed Diana Kennedy

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From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week This post originally appeared on May 23, 2020 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. Diana Kennedy in her kitchen in Mexico | Zachary Martin (Greenwich).

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Pastry Chefs Aren’t Disappearing — We’re Evolving

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A cottage food operation allows people to produce foods in their homes that aren’t seen as hazardous, such as bread, pastry, and jams. As we began to grow we realized that we had become too busy for the farmers market, and so we began to sell directly from our home in January of 2020.

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Why Investing in Cloud Kitchen Operations can Unlock New Revenue Streams for Businesses in Singapore

The Restaurant Times

An evolution of the basic cloud kitchen model, Kitchen as a service(KaaS), or shared kitchen spaces, take it a step further by providing centralized kitchen infrastructure where food operators can rent the space they need, and serve a new customer segment without setting up a brand new restaurant.

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Facebook Scammers Stole Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Posing as Luxury Restaurant Suppliers

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Online scams have skyrocketed since March 2020, particularly over Facebook Marketplace. For the better part of a decade, Regalis Foods operated exclusively on a wholesale basis to restaurants and business was good — the company was reportedly selling $200,000 worth of black truffles a week in season.

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

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School cafeterias tend to attract older workers, she says, and many opted to retire early when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. HSFP is the first federally registered apprenticeship program for scratch cooking school food operators, and the California pilot will last three years.