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At 62 years old, little Deidra “Dee” Lincoln has earned her title as the heavyweight woman of influence in the restaurant industry. She was dubbed the “Queen of Steaks” more than 20 years ago when she traveled to New York to announce the construction of a Del Frisco’s Double Eagle …

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — JR Michael has spent most of his life in the restaurant business. As a teenager, he spent his summers peeling potatoes in his uncle’s deli kitchen. Later he helped open Applebee’s on Clark Road, where he worked 100 hours a week for $8 an hour. Through …

Funds are pouring in for automated solutions that promise to reduce labor requirements at every stage of the restaurant supply chain. On the delivery side, Berkeley, Calif.-based sidewalk delivery robotics startup Kiwibot announced on Thursday (February 17) a contract extension with food service and facilities management company Sodexo to increase …

Many Texas restaurants and bars have been forced to close temporarily — for days, a week, sometimes longer — as this latest wave of COVID-19 brings staff shortages and other challenges. As the Omicron variant began to catch on late last year, bar owner Lee Daugherty grew concerned. He began …

As the Omicron variant began to catch on late last year, bar owner Lee Daugherty grew concerned. He began to implement serious protocols among his staff at Alexandre, his establishment in the Oak Lawn neighborhood of Dallas, including bi-weekly testing. It wasn’t long before someone tested positive for COVID-19. “We …

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo has again moved the county to its highest COVID-19 threat level, her office said. The announcement should be an old hat for Hidalgo, who has gone red three times since the start of the pandemic. “Sadly, today we find ourselves crossing a threshold that we …

DETROIT (AP) – As restaurants in the US and UK are open unrestricted and often bustling, they enter their second winter of the coronavirus pandemic worried about what to come: They are pressed by shortages labor and soaring food prices and the omicron variant is looming. “I am extremely worried. …

ERiver’s official opening turned into a sort of celebration. Despite the generally oppressive heat, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and many city council members attended. Reverend Harry Clemons Jr., Founder of the Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation, delivered an enthusiastic address. All taking place on a large open lot with a …

A Boston investor bought part of the $ 1 billion Frisco Gate development. San Antonio-based developer Embrey Partners LLC has sold their 350-unit estate in The Gate Apartments to TA Realty. The rental community is located on the west side of the Dallas North Toll Freeway, off of John Hickman …

NEW YORK – David Cohen longs to return to the days when business was booming in his family’s Times Square gift shop. As tourists have started to return, the foot traffic in Grand Slam memories is still not what it was before the coronavirus pandemic, when hordes of visitors from …

WILMINGTON, Mass .– (COMMERCIAL THREAD) – DTG, the leading supplier of industrial-grade battery-powered mobile workstations, today introduced the DTG Chef PowerStation, the industry’s most advanced battery-powered mobile carts for on-order cooking, continuous refrigeration and point-of-sale transactions. The stations were originally designed for Sodexo and deployed at 11 key university sites …

The native Rudy’s Bar-BQ team and K&N Management’s Mighty Fine Burgers join forces to bring a fresher barbecue experience to Smokey Mo fans alongside a new branding Posted: October 26, 2021 at 8:15 a.m. CDT|Update: 1 hour ago AUSTIN, Texas, October 26, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Smokey Mo’s Texas …

After struggling to hire workers for its factory outlet, Balsam Hill finally opened on September 1. But the next day, the online supplier of high-end artificial holiday trees was forced to shut down after four of its five employees resigned. The main complaint for three of them? Work weekends. So …

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business CNN – National fast-food restaurant chain Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers has a new solution to the workforce shortage in the restaurant industry – it’s asking company employees to work as cooks and cashiers for fries. The private company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has a …

Raise Cane’s to Offer Higher Salary in Austin to Attract New Employees In an effort to attract and retain staff in the Austin area, approximately 70% of their hourly staff will receive at least $ 1 more per hour and the starting rate will be $ 12 per hour. AUSTIN, …

Posted: October 6, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. CDT|Update: 2 hours ago AUSTIN, Texas, October 6, 2021 / PRNewswire / – The Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) is proud to announce its officers and new directors. With this group of leaders, TRA will continue to leverage the full strength and diversity of …

Screenshot credit: Good Morning America. Immerse yourself in this week’s best stories in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego and San Francisco (RestaurantNews.com) And now Media Group, Inc., The industry’s leading publisher of pre-opening restaurant news, published its weekly newsletter with …

As a newly opened restaurant that is still streamlining its cuisine, the recently introduced COVID-19 vaccination policies for diners and food workers on four islands in Hawaii receive decidedly mixed reviews. The mayors who created the new rules say they could change or eliminate them later this fall, if public …

Layered’s robot waiter in McKinney is programmed to transport food on its built-in multi-level trays to diners. (Miranda Jaimes / Community Impact Journal) Nir Sela said he struggled for months to find employees for his downtown McKinney breakfast and brunch. In August, the owner of the Layered restaurant brought in …

Small business owners of color in Harris and Fort Bend counties could get a total of $ 1 million in support from Comcast during a difficult pandemic. From Friday October 1 through Thursday October 14, Black, Native, Hispanic, or Asian American homeowners, among others, can apply to receive a $ …

Black box intelligence, a Dallas-based restaurant analytics company, saw slower sales growth and customer satisfaction nationwide, as well as in Dallas, for the month of August. Sales growth fell after two months of gradual growth in June and July, nationally and locally. To calculate sales growth, Black Box compared metrics …

Parkland Hospital hopes to bring holistic health care to South Dallas with the opening of its clinic on Tuesday at the former Red Bird Mall site. The 40,000 square foot RedBird clinic will provide primary care, family medicine, mammography and simple radiology. It will also include child psychiatry and a …

Since President Joe Biden’s announcement that companies with more than 100 employees must require their employees to be vaccinated for COVID or test unvaccinated employees weekly, there have been more questions than answers. While the idea of ​​ending the pandemic appeals to restaurateurs, especially after the crushing effects on the …

There is praise and criticism following President Joe Biden’s executive orders requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for approximately 100 million American workers. Large employers in North Texas are considering their next steps and how they will implement mandates for workers who do not wish to be vaccinated. At El Rancho de Garland …

NEW YORK (AP) – Pop-up restaurants, many of which started as interim measures by struggling chefs and owners, may have stamina as consumers continue to embrace take-out and delivery and the delta variant threatens to make dining less of an option. Pop-up restaurants can take a variety of forms, from …

Dallas, TX, July 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – As the world’s largest barbecue concept, Dickey’s Barbecue Pit continues to bring its slow-smoked meats and savory sides to more markets around the world. Dickey’s opened 63 branches in the second quarter alone, including three overseas in Singapore, Japan and the Yas …

SPRING, Texas – Clarissa and Randy Hall, owners of the Spring franchise of Hokulia Shave Ice, are taking a risk. About 60% understaffed, the couple will need 24 employees once they open their second snow cone store in the Spring area on July 17; they currently employ nine. “In the …

Updated at 12:23: Revised to include a statement from Bill Hutchinson. A prominent Dallas-area developer who starred in a reality TV show highlighting his relationship with a woman 40 years younger than himself has been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. William Lewald “Bill” Hutchinson(Highland Park Department …

Call it the seafood circle of life. The shells left behind by the restaurant are collected, cleaned and dumped in waterways across the country and around the world, where they form the basis of new oyster colonies. . One of the last projects of this type is carried out at …

AUSTIN, Texas, June 30, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Restaurateurs Charlie geren, owner of Railhead Smokehouse at Fort worth, Mark Davis Bailey, owner of the Original Pancake House DFW in Dallas, and Creed Ford III (posthumously) of the Ford restaurant group in Austin will be inducted this year into the …

“Those first two years have been pretty smooth,” says Corey McCauley, co-founder of Taco Joint. “But we kind of realized we had something.” He talks about the neighborhood chatter around the very first Taco Joint on Peak Street in Old East Dallas. When it opened in August 2008, it served …

Moscow – They tried grocery giveaways and lottery tickets for new cars and new apartments. However, the ambitious plan to vaccinate 30 million Russians by mid-June has yet to reach a third. As a result, many local governments in large countries now require certain workers to be vaccinated and require …

DALLAS, June 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Ziosk, the industry’s leading on-premise technology platform for restaurants, today announced the signing of a new multi-year contract with Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (NASDAQ: RRGB). The deal provides for an upgrade of all tablets in the field to the latest hardware with EMV …

AUSTIN (KXAN) – As more than 20,000 spectators marched to Q2 Stadium for Austin FC’s inaugural home game on June 19, Austin-based singer-songwriter Aaron Stephens spoke prepared for his greatest performance to date. Stationed on the pitch a short walk from Matthew McConaughey, he performed a funky guitar rendition of …

Hai Hospitality has announced that Loro, the Asian Smokehouse and Bar, will be opening its second location, at 1812 N Haskell (corner of Haskell and Munger) in Old East Dallas, to the public on Monday, July 5, 2021. Loro, a culinary partnership between Pitmaster Aaron Franklin and Chef Tyson Cole, …

AUSTIN, TX – Bell Partners, one of the nation’s leading apartment investment and management firms, has acquired Lenox Springs and Lenox Meadows, two adjacent properties in Austin, Texas, comprising a total of 619 units. The properties, acquired on behalf of the company’s Fund VII investors, will be leveraged with the …

The castle wall protects Deep Ellum The Texas Department of Transportation is taking suggestions on what to do with Interstate 345, the freeway between downtown and Deep Ellum. The developers want it demolished so it can earn millions of dollars. However, the problem remains, where do those 180,000 cars that …

THE WOODLANDS, TX —The Howard Hughes Corporation, the Woodlands-based commercial, residential and mixed-use real estate company, has announced the upcoming opening of an Austin Bank branch in Creekside Park Village Green in the Woodlands. The new branch will be located next to the hand and stone massage and facial spa, …

HOUSTON, June 7, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Independent Marketing Alliance (IMA), the member network of independent market share leaders in foodservice distribution, today announced that Performance Food Group (PFG), a leader in foodservice distribution, has joined its exclusive purchasing and marketing network. PFG joins the five other member companies …

Note: this article is part of our State of the city project, in which The morning news from Dallas explores the most critical issues facing our communities. Find more topics in our take on the Dallas economy in the coming days. *** Dallas is emerging from the pandemic stronger than …

NEW ORLEANS Restaurants have suffered more than most businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dining rooms were closed or severely restricted when the virus began to spread in March 2020. Restaurants that remained open relied on take-out orders. Many states, however, have offered some relief by allowing take-out sales of beer, …

The new community center spans 24,500 square feet. (Courtesy of Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam) Harris County 3 precinct officials officially opened the Steve Radack Community Center at 18650 Clay Road, Houston on May 27. The new facility was built over the floodplain to replace the Bear Creek Community Center, which …

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS – Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer. It is a busy weekend for many, between observing the holidays dedicated to those who died serving our country, many will also engage in sports and outdoor activities. The town of College Station kicked off the summer …

Scloudy skies, warmer weather and longer days can only mean one thing. It’s officially patio season in Texas. After a grueling Texas winter and short spring, it’s time for cold drinks, innovative menus and plenty of time outdoors. Some of the best patios in Texas can be found at Midway …

Post-pandemic activity is jumping on Kemah promenade, as more people get vaccinated and COVID-19 restrictions relax. The Rock the Dock concert series and the annual Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Epicurean Night returned Thursday night. The festivities marked the return of events since the shutdown. A Journey tribute band …

Shipping delays have a major impact on businesses across the country. From restaurants to retailers, almost everyone is feeling the pinch. At Blue Fish Sushi in Allen, officials say a limited supply chain is having an impact on their orders. “Sushi has been hard to come by at times, prices …

There’s a new tavern with a Chicago vibe coming to University Park: Called DL Mack’s, it’s a new concept from Vandelay Hospitality Group, home to popular restaurants such as East Hampton Sandwich Co., Hudson House and Lucky’s Hot Chicken. DL Mack’s will be a classic American tavern, located at 6501 …

FORT WORTH The masks come off, but not all at once. Many restaurants, retailers and other businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are already relaxing their COVID mask requirements, a day after the CDC released new guidelines showing it is no longer essential for those with been vaccinated to wear …

NAIROBI, Kenya, April 5 – A section of MPs allied with Vice President William Ruto has called for mitigation measures for residents of the five counties currently stranded due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Led by Kikuyu MK Kimani Ichungwah, former chairman of the National Assembly’s budget committee, lawmakers urged the …

Source: United Airlines United Airlines Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) plans to hire around 300 pilots, a sign that the pandemic-ravaged industry is hoping the recent rebound in bookings will continue. CNBC reported on Thursday that the Chicago-based airline told its staff it would begin hiring pilots, a process suspended last …

STATEN ISLAND, NY – The Young Women’s Leadership Group (YWL Group) at Staten Island Urban Center has chosen art as a vehicle to raise awareness of Staten Island’s environmental challenges. YWL Group describes “The Landfill Fashionista: Image, Environment, and Culture Through the Lens of Girls of Color” as “a multimedia …

The opinions expressed below are those of Derek F. Dahlgren and do not necessarily reflect the views of MPA or its editorial team. The mortgage industry has seen a spectacular flurry of activity last year. He has extended in many ways while other sectors of the economy have fallen behind. …

President Biden signs his first decrees Biden signed a few executive orders just hours after taking office on Wednesday, targeting COVID-19 and other issues. WASHINGTON – The US Department of Education will extend the break on federal student loan payments and interest rates will remain at 0% after an executive …