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2024 National Restaurant Association Show Recap
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- The state of the restaurant industry, according to Nick Vojnovic
Vojnovic is president and majority partner of Little Greek Fresh Grill
- How Just Salad innovates around sustainability
This week on Extra Serving, a podcast from Nation’s Restaurants News, editor-in-chief Sam Oches sits down with Just […]
- How restaurants benefit from strategic tech integrations
Editors debrief the National Restaurant Association Show
- How Sam ‘the Cooking Guy’ Zien became a content creator before social media even existed
Zien, named a Digital Innovator at the 2024 MenuMasters Awards, chats with NRN editor-in-chief Sam Oches
- ‘Restaurant Impossible’ star Robert Irvine talks leadership, innovation, technology
The chef sat down with NRN’s editor in chief at the recent National Restaurant Association Show to discuss the state […]
- Non-alcoholic spirits and boba emerge as major beverage trends
Younger consumers are driving significant growth in the non-alcoholic and boba beverage categories.
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On this week’s podcast, Pat Cobe, senior menu editor of Restaurant Business, and Bret Thorn, senior food & beverage editor of Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality, discuss recent tasting adventures, and share an interview with Anthony Amoroso, the new VP of innovation and growth at Maggiano’s Little Italy.
Amoroso has helmed the kitchen in several famous independents and Michelin-starred restaurants, and now welcomes this opportunity to return to his Italian-American roots and work with the chefs across Maggiano’s 50 locations.
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The career trajectory of restaurant mascots and spokes-beings has taken a decided turn for the worst. It’s a wonder they’ve not pivoted to writing blues songs, given how little marketing work is coming their way these days. If it weren’t for the big smiles painted on their faces, we’d likely see more than a few tears rolling down the cheeks of the former media stars.
With tongue firmly embedded in cheek, we devote this week’s episode of Restaurant Rewind to the career slide of onetime A-listers like Ronald, the Big Boy, Jack and Wendy. Grab a tissue and listen to why characters who once rivaled Santa Claus in recognition value are now calculating their chances of driving for Uber.
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This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Elisia Flores, the CEO of the 200-plus unit franchise, L&L Hawaiian Barbecue.
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Menu Talk: Pat and Bret chat about the latest food and drink trends and share an interview with chef Cheng Lin of Shota Omakase in Brooklyn, New York.
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Restaurant Rewind: Once a true convention smasher, the casual-dining pioneer gradually sanded away the quirks and irreverence that made it saucier than anything the industry had seen before. #TGIFridays
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This episode of A Deeper Dive features a discussion on the recent Chapter 11 #bankruptcy filing by the casual-dining chain #TGIFridays.
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🍔 This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Bill Marler, the country’s leading attorney on food safety issues and foodborne illness outbreaks.
Marler is with the law firm Marler Clark. He has represented victims of outbreaks and consulted with companies on foodborne-illness issues for more than 30 years.
We wanted to talk with him about the situation at McDonald’s.
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California voters narrowly reject $18 minimum wage increase. Proposition 32 was rejected in California, which would have raised the minimum wage from $16 to $18 an hour by 2026 ow.ly/qyZC105PqB1
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Jimmy John’s opens first Canadian location in Toronto suburb. The sandwich chain has partnered with multiconcept franchisee Foodtastic ow.ly/94ux105Pqp2
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