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Lost in Translation? Why Conscientious Menu Language Matters

Modern Restaurant Management

” A server who repeats the Spanish dish name reintroduces the food’s context and makes the dish’s origins not only visible, but audible. This bilingual menu style encompasses two fundamental translation strategies: domestication and foreignization. Foreignization means preserving the culture and language of origin.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-August 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Over 25 percent of Restaurants In The United States Cannot Find Cooks, Another 17 percent Cannot Find Servers. With the “labor pandemic”, new staff are becoming hard to find, with 26 percent of restaurants are looking for cooks and line cooks, 17 percent are looking for servers and 7 percent are looking for bartenders.

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INDIA – 6

Mary Gostelow

The rest of the time, the 800 or so who run this stylish 403-room place are busy with business, domestic and overseas. They recently added extra outside meeting places with gardens, with lakes big enough to have real geese. At weekends, locals come for staycations, for facilities for kids, fitnesss and dining. There’s Orient Express.

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2023 Outlook: Trends and Challenges Restaurants Will See, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

With domestic road trips increasing post pandemic, consumers are looking to receive food and continue on their travels as quickly as possible. With consumer expectations at an all-time high, award winning architecture and design firm, CRTKL, is working with 7-Eleven to re-imagine its stores and to attract consumers. and the U.K.,

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2023 Outlook: Trends and Challenges Restaurants Will See, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Cabernet Franc continues to get hotter and hotter – both domestically and abroad. On-Demand Apps : “On-demand” apps can allow cooks, servers, and/or bartenders to see which restaurants or bars are in need of help each night, giving them ad-hoc access to jobs.

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Who We’ve Lost

EATER

That’s not even counting the losses for which we do have concrete figures: more than 28 million infections and 519,000 deaths, domestically. They both started working at the restaurant, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the same day in 1992 — O’Neill, as a bartender in training to be a manager; Mendi O’Neill, as a server.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2024

Modern Restaurant Management

KFC finishes second at 81 (unchanged), appearing to hold on to highly loyal customers as competitors cut into its domestic market share. The disdain for QR codes is more pronounced among the older generation, with 62 percent of those aged 65 and above requesting a paper or printed menu when presented with a QR code by a server.

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