There are many reasons to support your local restaurants. For one, they provide good jobs for members of your community. They also help to keep your local economy strong. When you spend your money at a local restaurant, more of that money stays in your community.
Another reason to support your local restaurants is that they are often more environmentally friendly than chain restaurants. They may use locally sourced ingredients, which have a smaller carbon footprint. They may also use less energy and water in their operations.
Finally, local restaurants add to the character of your community. They give you a place to gather with friends and family, and they make your town or city a more interesting and enjoyable place to live. So next time you’re looking for a place to eat, make sure to patronize your local restaurants.
This is one of the reasons Taste of 575 exist. It works to promote and highlight local businesses. Too often, great restaurants don't get the visibility they deserve, so we've dedicated this publication, website, and social media to shining a light on them.
Visit https://tasteof575.com and see if you don't find something new to try.
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Squatters who have occupied a Gordon Ramsay pub in central London (Camden) want to open the Grade II-listed building to people who could "previously not afford to visit".
One representative noted that "Camden is a borough with one of the biggest wealth disparities in London, so it seems only fitting that £13m properties that most locals would never be able to afford to visit should be opened up to all." 🍺
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Where’s the best food hall in the UK? There are over 100 to choose from, with - according to industry expert Simon Anderson - more than 30 in development. Currently, it’s Cutlery Works in Sheffield, who have won Best Food Hall at the British Street Food Awards for the past two years. And this year the Award will be more hotly contested than ever. Applications are about to open at https://lnkd.in/e-ZKbGx8. But with a series of closures (including Sale and Stratford) - and Sessions pulling out of a planned project in Manchester - has the Food Hall bubble burst? That’s what BBC Radio 4 asked us. After all, we launched game-changing Trinity Kitchen back in 2013, drawing on the best of the new food heroes. And have now expanded our search for the best street food talent into Europe and the US. Click below.
Food halls seem pretty recession proof. They are staff light and offer a low(ish) barrier to entry into the industry. Market Halls, Seven Dials and Boxpark seem to be making real money. The reasons around failures in Sale and Stratford are peculiar to each site, and don’t offer up any clear evidence of a deep-seated malaise in the food hall business. Although they do seem to suggest that the Manchester market is saturated. However, the feeling from the street food world is that - while food halls can offer great opportunities - all too often they don’t serve the trader’s best interests.
Two previous British Street Food Awards grand champions - Ranie Sirah from Jah Jyot and Helios Gala from Pabellon - reckoned that the management in food halls all too often feels like a ‘landlord’ rather than a ‘partner’. Ranie and Helios felt the fate of their business was taken out of their hands. “The dwell time was 40-50% longer in a food hall” says Ranie, “meaning that people were taking up space, nursing a half for three hours. That’s a table that could be taken up with a paying customer.” Helios agreed. “Most food halls are overloaded with traders, and they expect you to open ridiculously long hours….That isn’t aligned with the realistic numbers that we, as food vendors, need to cover expenses and make a profit.”
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🏙 For example, in Houston, restaurants have experienced a rise in sales due to the presence of nearby food trucks, leading restaurant proprietors to advocate for legislation facilitating food truck operations.
Similarly, in Washington, DC, the emergence of four new brick-and-mortar restaurants 👩🍳 near Farragut Square, one of the city's bustling food truck hubs, illustrates how all businesses in the area benefit from the heightened foot traffic generated by food trucks. 🚚
Are you interested in the food truck industry? Invite your friends and colleagues to follow our page for news, tips, stories, and fun facts about food trucks.
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The future of the #northeast#foodanddrink industry will be determined by collaboration, partnership, collectivism and creativity.
A region working towards the same goal.
This was the original vision behind Food and Drink North East and something we will always stay true to.
We have a long, long way to go to see our work having a real impact at a regional level (including the need for core funding for organisations like FADNE) but seeing these stories reminds me that genuine transformation happens at grassroots level.
Business to business, walking the walk, thinking AND doing.
FADNE will be 4 years old this week and, despite some huge frustrations, I'm proud of what we have achieved so far in our journey as the regions only agri, food, drink, hospitality and food manufacturing community and trade association.
I'll be working on my 4 year review blog piece this week which I've appropriately called 'Food Fight' - my perspective on our journey so far including our successes, challenges, conflicts and let downs.
The good, the bad and the worthy.
Look out for it here medium.com/ChrisJ_FoodNE
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Best US Cities for St. Patrick’s Day Irish Pub Crawl: The study analyzed various factors to determine the ranking, including the number of Irish pubs in each city and the average cost of a bottle of beer.
SOURCE: Best US Cities for St. Patrick’s Day Irish Pub Crawl BY: eTurboNews | eTN #stpatricksday#irishpub#News#eTurboNews_eTN
