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Restaurants are scrambling to hire thousands of workers to fill shifts.
Danny Meyer is tackling the crisis differently by investing in labor retention tool, 7shifts. Retention is truly the name of the game, Meyer told Insider.
The restaurant industry is scrambling to find servers, cooks, and fast food cashiers to keep doors open as capacity restrictions lift across the US. But restaurant mogul Danny Meyer is taking a different approach to the crisis – retention. He s using tech from 7shifts to help keep the right people working for him at his New York-based restaurant group Union Square Hospitality. And he s betting more restaurant operators will want to use the restaurant management software.
Among the world’s great sandwiches without a serious New York City presence, the roti john, like the one chef Amy Pryke serves at Native Noodles in Washington Heights, surely ranks near the top.
As one of the apocryphal origin stories of the dish goes, an Englishman in the late 1960s asked a Malay hawker in Singapore for a hamburger. The hawker didn’t have any burgers, so instead he fried together a concoction of minced mutton, eggs, and onions and pressed it into a baguette. And thus the roti john was supposedly born, a sandwich that Singaporeans often consume for breakfast. “John,” it should be noted, is a Southeast Asian slang term for a white man, as Pryke explains in John Wang’s cookbook anthology,
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Painting has been a part of Brian Edwards life since he was a 9-year-old in Janet Griggs classroom at Northwest Elementary.
From the day his fourth-grade teacher praised his drawing of a random face during a class art project, he was hooked on being creative. It might seem odd that a self-described Davidson County country boy who also loves to hunt and display his taxidermied trophies on his home s walls is passionate about drawing and painting. After all, the art world doesn t have too many camouflage-wearing painters who work at a major tobacco company.
While painting has been a love for most his life, it is not the only love, nor the strongest love he has experienced.
NEW YORK (WABC) New York City Restaurant Week gets underway Monday even without indoor dining to encourage New Yorkers to support the dining community during a critical time.
This year s event is called Restaurant Week To Go and a record-breaking 570 restaurants across the five boroughs will participate.
Every eatery will offer at least one bargain $20.21 takeout or delivery meal of lunch or dinner with one side dish.
In light of COVID-19 restrictions, many restaurants will offer takeout and delivery for the first time. Diners can also sort restaurant options through filters like Black-owned restaurants, Friyay, date night and more.