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Yolo County fines unlicensed Anna’s Kitchen $106,997 after UC Davis students sickened

Bill Marler

Williams on December 18, 2019. Mr. Jiang will pay $106,997 in costs and penalties, and will forfeit an additional $90,000 in penalties if he is discovered operating Anna’s Kitchen or offering any type of food for retail purchase without a valid permit going forward.

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Surgical Pricing Strategies: How QSRs Can Navigate Inflation

Modern Restaurant Management

Using the QSR traffic and sales data Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) has been gathering for 25-plus years, our analysts recently completed an exhaustive comparison of pre and post-pandemic data, comparing the first two quarters of 2022 and 2023 to the same period in 2019. Since 2019, however, QSR traffic has been down nearly 20% (18.4

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YEA: Restaurants Showing Resiliency with New Openings

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New restaurant and food businesses are opening at pre-pandemic levels, with the number of new openings increasingly more in line with 2018 and 2019 volumes, according to third quarter data for the Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report. There were only 100 fewer new restaurant openings in September of this year, compared to September 2019.

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“Sproutbreak” – Punitive Damages claim levied against JIMMY JOHN’s, LLC, an Illinois Limited Liability Company, and INSPIRE BRANDS, INC., a Delaware corporation

Bill Marler

After purchasing and consuming a Billy Club Sandwich from D&L’s restaurant on February 21, 2020, Plaintiff Travis Knorr began to develop symptoms consistent with a STEC O103 infection and within the typical STEC incubation period on February 26, 2020. purchased a majority share of Jimmy John’s, LLC. In late 2019, an outbreak of E.

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Effectively Targeting and Marketing to Gen Z

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According to a December 2019 report by commercial real estate giant CBRE using data from eMarketer, Generation Z’s spending is now at approximately $143 billion per year, with an additional influence over $450.5 And wow, does this young generation have some incredible spending power! billion in spending by others.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-June 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

In fact, the number of diners seated via Yelp was up 48 percent in May 2021 compared to May 2019. Nearly 6,600 new restaurant and food businesses opened in May 2021, a 42 percent increase from May 2020 and down by only 21 percent from May 2019. Three in five consumers have purchased premium drinks/brands since returning.

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Risk of Botulism prompts Tiger Brands, South Africa’s biggest food manufacturer, to recall 20 Million cans of vegetables produced from May 2019 to May 2021

Bill Marler

According to South African press reports, Tiger Brands, South Africa’s biggest food manufacturer, announced yesterday that it is immediately recalling about 20 million Koo and Hugo’s canned vegetable products that were produced from May 1, 2019, to May 5, 2021, over safety concerns due to potentially defective cans.