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Making a living doing what you love

Bill Marler

Last night I was taking some time finding places for all my mom’s many scrapbooks. I found the below note that I think I wrote in the early 1990’s. Well, some things never change.

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Using Technology to Combat the Labor Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

Every industry felt the impact of the labor crunch during the pandemic and now, as recovery efforts are underway, businesses are struggling to recover employees quickly enough to meet the rise in demand. Particularly impacted by the staffing shortage, restaurants are struggling to beat the labor crisis, with staffing shortages felt in both back-of-house and front-of-house staff.

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Sculpture Hospitality Launches Brand-New Inventory Management App

Sculpture Hospitality

Sculpture Hospitality Launches Brand-New Inventory Management App to help Restaurants and Bars Manage Tight Margins as they Come Out of the Pandemic. Sculpture Hospitality - ( www.sculpturehospitality.com ) a global hospitality inventory management company, that combines both technology software with expert, local advice - has launched a brand-new inventory management app designed specifically to simplify the inventory management and ordering process for all hospitality businesses.

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98: Celebrating National Goat Cheese Month

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Did you know August was National Goat Cheese Month. Who knew!?! To celebrate, Tracy chatted with passionate goat farmer Mary Rigdon of Decimal Place Farm located in southeast Atlanta, GA. While the history of goat cheese goes back 9000 years to Ancient Greece, self-taught cheese-maker Mary has been making it for 26 years when she first acquired Decimal Place Farm and two goats.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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FDA is Investigating Listeria and Salmonella Outbreaks that have sickened over 500 people

Bill Marler

The FDA is reporting today for the first time an active investigation to a Listeria Outbreak that has sickened 20. The FDA continues to investigate a Salmonella Thompson outbreak that has sickened 93. Both outbreaks have yet to be linked to a food product. The FDA has not definitively determined what specific food has been the cause of a nationwide Salmonella Oranienburg outbreak – But, cilantro looks suspicious.

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Marler Clark files first Hepatitis A Lawsuit against Famous Anthony’s Restaurant

Bill Marler

I have lost track of how many times I have implored restaurants to offer Hepatitis A vaccines to their employees. Here was my latest: And, now here are the consequences: Publisher’s Platform: Vaccinate restaurant employees against hepatitis A or suffer the consequences. PDF Complaint. The Virginia Department of Health says the number of total people linked to three Famous Anthony’s restaurants infected with hepatitis A has increased to 14.

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How Restaurants Can Avoid Friendly Fraud

Modern Restaurant Management

For the hospitality industry, the last 18 months have been very challenging. Walk down any street, uptown or downtown, and there are still numerous ‘closed’ signs on the front of restaurants and other service businesses. Many small business owners added online storefronts and delivery services to help sustain their business admidst vanishing in-store customers, but they now face a new economic threat – friendly fraud.

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Controlling What You Can: Risk Reduction and Restaurant Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

Controlling the variables in the restaurant industry can feel like a game of whack-a-mole if you don’t have the right tools at your fingertips. Especially in a time where the industry is in flux because of the pandemic, juggling things like food costs, keeping shifts full and food safety can feel more difficult than ever. Fortunately, controlling the variables that can pose a risk to your business are within your grasp.

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The New Normal: How Technology Can Help Streamline Restaurant Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

Last year, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants went through some unwanted but necessary changes. As a precaution, dining areas were closed and at one point, even eating al fresco was prohibited in certain areas. Fast forward a year later and the economy is recovering, albeit at a slow pace. However, in the process of resuming and continuing restaurant operations, operators need to take steps to lower the risk of infection among employees and customers and prevent the spread of

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Roanoke Times: Lawsuit filed in Famous Anthony’s hepatitis A outbreak; 30 cases now reported

Bill Marler

Alison Graham wrote : A Franklin County woman filed a lawsuit against Famous Anthony’s, alleging that she contracted hepatitis A from eating at one of the chain’s restaurants. According to the lawsuit, Mindy Perdue ate a gravy biscuit combo on Aug. 21 at the Famous Anthony’s on Grandin Road in Roanoke. A few weeks later, she began experiencing migraines, fever, vomiting, jaundice and dark urine.

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Seven Enticing Restaurant Marketing Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

Whether you’re handling marketing for a chain restaurant, or just trying to heighten the visibility of your own local mom and pop diner, here are seven pro tips for restaurant marketing that will give your eating establishment a much-needed boost. Accurate Brand Personality Representation. Branding is everything, and that’s true across the board.

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Five Ways to Prepare for Flu Season

Modern Restaurant Management

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), since 2010, the flu has resulted in between 140,000 and 810,000 hospitalizations each year. To help prevent outbreaks and protect building occupants, GSF USA offers tips to consider for the 2021-2022 flu season. “As the pandemic continues, there has been increased worry about the upcoming flu season,” said Troy Bargmann, president, GSF USA. “Fortunately, there are simple steps that facilities can take in prepara

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Insanitary conditions – Rodents and live and dead insects prompt FDA to seize 25,000 boxes of spices and food additives from Lyden Spice Corporation

Bill Marler

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that, on behalf of the agency, the U.S. Marshals Service conducted a mass seizure of FDA-regulated spices and food additive products held for sale under insanitary conditions. Specifically, these food products were exposed to widespread rodent infestation as well as other pests, such as live and dead insects.

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98: Celebrating National Goat Cheese Month

Eating at a Meeting

Did you know August was National Goat Cheese Month. Who knew!?! To celebrate, Tracy chatted with passionate goat farmer Mary Rigdon of Decimal Place Farm located in southeast Atlanta, GA. While the history of goat cheese goes back 9000 years to Ancient Greece, self-taught cheese-maker Mary has been making it for 26 years when she first acquired Decimal Place Farm and two goats.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The edition of MRM Research Roundup features what feeds us, drive-thru drama, a Tik Tok survey on restaurants and the best cities for beer. The State of What Feeds Us. Bluedot released the fifth installment of the State of What Feeds Us report which has kept tabs on consumer behavior and restaurant habits since the beginning of the health crisis. The findings have offered insight into consumer expectations to support restaurant brands as they work to navigate ongoing operating, social, and econo