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50 Years of Culinary Excellence: Celebrating ICE’s Anniversary

Modern Restaurant Management

” To learn more about the ICE's past, present and future, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Smilow. And for me, to work for 30 years as an entrepreneur, building an institution dedicated to helping students find their culinary voices; it has been an unexpected, rewarding and joyous career.”

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Expert Weighs in on Subway and Red Lobster News

Modern Restaurant Management

Locations will remain open and operating as usual during the Chapter 11 process. What should other operators and consumers expect to see as these well-known brands recalibrate? Prior to joining IFMA in 2021, he led and managed businesses at Kraft, Jones Dairy Farm, Cargill, and McCormick & Co.,

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

" As we mark the fifth anniversary, MRM magazine surveyed restaurant insiders about the pandemic’s lasting impact on their businesses and the industry. In addition, the state carved out a special 45 percent increase to $20 per hour for fast-food employees. This has driven up all wages because a cook being paid $16.50

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Pastry Chefs Aren’t Disappearing — We’re Evolving

EATER

Joules Garcia /Eater Pastry chefs may be leaving restaurants, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing for the profession For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least.

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Get your Green Book listings in

Hotel Business

Visit hotelbusiness.com/verify Inbox To the Editor: I am a long-time, appreciative subscriber of your magazine. Your renewal today ensures your free subscription continues through October 2024. I still enjoy reading it today, even though I am now retired from a 52-year career in hotel and resort management.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Opportunity is Barking and the Spirit of BBQ

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. PJ's Hopes to Open 187 Locations Throughout Florida in Next 10 Years.

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Guillermo Herrera On The Significance of Menu Engineering and Cost control

The Restaurant Times

TRT- We read your recent article published in Gastro Rama magazine about standard food yields, what gave you the idea to write about such a prevalent topic? Guillermo Herrera – I think that as well as menu engineering, labor cost, and standard cost performance are fundamental in the food operation.