Food & Beverage Magazine June 2020 Issue by Food & Beverage Magazine

INDUSTRY LEADERS - TRENDS - BEVERAGE - CUISINE - CHEF - RESTAURANT - HOSPITALITY

JUNE 2020

THINK

OUTSIDE THE SINK

COVID-19 Reopening Guidance CASE STUDY: COVID-19 Buying Behavior

UNiTE: DIVERSITY

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JUNE 2020 COVER IMAGE Post Malone, Maison No. 9 - Credit: Greg Reego PUBLISHER MICHAEL POLITZ Michael@fb101.com EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LAUREN KANE Lauren.Kane@fbmagazine.com NATIONAL SALES DIRECTOR COLLIN MILLINGTON Collin@fb101.com DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMATIC SALES BARB ROGERS Programmatic@fbmagazine.com PODCAST ENGINEER BRAD JONES Brad@marque.media CORPORATE EXECUTIVE CHEF JOSH GREEN Chefgreen35@gmail.com CONTRIBUTING EDITORS JENNIFER ENGLISH LAUREN MCINDOO MICHELE TELL TARRY HART KAIULANI DELGADO MATT FROHMAN VEDO PITNJAKOVIC DEBBIE HALL

We honor and remember the support of Chef Kerry Simon, Gary Cantor, Robin Leach, Chef Paul Prudhomme, & Gary Coles

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As long as we’re apart, we’re in this together. For your passion, your hard work, your support, and your spirit.

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One of the most important missions we have at Food & Beverage Magazine is to empower our 12 million readers each month. We do this through our editorial content as well as with our strategic partners to deliver the most valuable, essential, timely best practices, advice and inspiration about improving operations, service and efficiency. Never has the core of our partnerships been more important. The health and safety of our guests and employees has always been paramount in our industry, and to this publication. However, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis has made operators re-evaluate and process improve every aspect of their procedures and operations. Last June, in partnership with Dawn Professional Dish Detergent from Sam’s Club, we featured a series of best practices and tips for restaurant professionals to optimize restaurant cleanliness called "Think Outside The Sink." It featured a series of extremely effective and economical "hacks" for cleaning multiple surfaces in both the back and front of the house using Dawn Professional Dish Detergent. We were proud of that feature because it delivered value, effective and economical solutions which any operator could immediately implement. Today during this unprecedented time for all foodservice operators, saving time and money is more important than ever, but cleanliness and proactive adoption of changing regulations and standards means even more. Thanks to our partner, Dawn Professional at Sam's Club, and aligned with the latest information and standards from the CDC as well as local, state and other regulatory agencies, we are proud to re-issue the extremely useful restaurant cleanliness guide. Everyone that knows me as the author of The Food & Beverage Magazine Guide to Restaurant Success, knows I love things that make restaurant operators’ jobs better and easier. Operating a restaurant is one of the hardest endeavors there is, and it is my mission to help you in every way I can. We are all strategic partners as we move through this tome together. And this is one of the best ways I know to do this: we have to keep our kitchens cleaner than ever for our customers, and doing so economically is essential. We all need to “think outside the sink” about our overall operations and re-dedicate ourselves as we welcome back our staff and our customers. That commitment – and sticking together – will see us through. Stay safe, Michael Politz Publisher Food & Beverage Magazine

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It started on St Patrick’s, a day that we dread for an entire year. More than squeezing extra deuces and a third seating in for Valentine’s Day, more than trying to pour and distribute hundreds of glasses of champagne in a ten minute window before the 31st melts into the 1st, more than all the Mother’s Day brunches, St. Patrick’s looms large in the minds of any bar owner in America. For all it’s logistical headache’s, green messes, and overstaffing, it is a also a day when profits are made and relationships are forged amongst teams. There is a certain code among those that work in bars and restaurants. We have a shared trauma and history. It doesn’t matter where you have worked, we all have the same war stories to tell. After a shift, in a favorite watering hole, we can recount those moments of dread or joy with our chosen family and it is uncanny the similarities, from New York to Tucson to San Francisco, we all tell the same stories. So it is fitting that the shut down for us started the day before St. Patrick’s. As the preparations for one of the busiest drinking days of the year ramped up, so too did the news coming in from around the world. Dear friends had come back from a honeymoon in a nearly disserted Tokyo, a friend setting up shop in Italy abandoned all plans, and my own work trips started to move up by a few weeks out of mild fears that something was going on. In the whiskey business, St. Patrick’s Day is something we plan entire calendars around, but this year something was different. One by one, accounts started to notice a decline in sales. The week before we officially shut down in the Bay Area, things had already slowed to a glacial pace. Business levels were worse than that week every year, the city is abandoned for some party in the desert. I sat in one bar at happy hour, a bar that normally would have been bustling with folks coming in from the towering office buildings nearby, instead the entire, expansive bar top was populated just by two bartenders from down the street who had been called off due to lack of business, a fellow brand ambassador and my partner whom I had dragged along for a

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restaurants, we haven’t accounted for how bars without full food programs get into the mix. And the biggest questions still are how to keep the staff and guests safe in this new environment. We have asked owners to add the role of epidemiologist to their ever expanding list of job titles, as if host, babysitter, plumber, accountant, hostage negotiator, cook, dishwasher, therapist, hospitalitarian, and job creator wasn’t enough. I know that when we come out of this, it will be a very different landscape. Many of our favorite bars and restaurants will not have made it though this crisis. We will be recovering for a very long time. But remember this is an industry that from week to week can survive oh-so early Mother’s Day brunches, and sweltering 4th of July’s and doing inventory at five in the morning on New Year’s Day after having executed two perfect seatings and having your dining room turned into a dance floor at the stroke of midnight. We are teams of people that chose to get into this field because we believe in hospitality. We believe that at the end of the day, while we might not be changing to world with our perfect dumplings or expertly stirred Rob Roy’s, we are changing one person’s day at a time. We are connecting with our fellow humans and expressing ourselves, our love, our passion through this craft. We wouldn’t pour our hours into it, forsaking regular relationships and the comforts of a 9-5 life, if we didn’t think it was worth it. If we didn’t know that what we do, day in and day out, holiday hours or just a Tuesday, have a ripple affect on our communities. Not just the community of dishwashers, bussers, hosts, bartenders, servers, managers and owners we chose to surround ourselves with, but every single person that steps through our doors. I know it can be hard to have hope at this moment, but in twenty years I want to be sharing a beer after a long day with someone who knows what it was like when everything shut down. When we didn’t know what the future held. It will be part of our shared history and hopefully will have better prepared us for the future. In the end, it will be like so many St. Patrick’s Days, another moment that we overcame our greatest fears and apprehensions and came together as an industry. And we will be able to raise our glasses once more, undeterred by what may come next.

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Introducing

RumChata Limón! Caribbean Rum, Real Dairy Cream, Rich Vanilla, and Sunny Lemon! Available March 1st! Order now!

RumChata Limón™. Caribbean Rum with Real Dairy Cream, Natural & Artificial Flavors, 14% alc/vol. Agave Loco Brands, Pewaukee, WI. Please Enjoy Responsibly. RUMCHATA, RUMCHATA LIMÓN, and CHATA are trademarks of Agave Loco, LLC

RumChata® Freedom Bottle Program Reaches $1 Million Mark for Lone Survivor Foundation Military Family Programs The RumChata Foundation's annual Freedom Bottle program has raised more than $1 Million for Lone Survivor Foundation (LSF) since it began in 2014. The LSF logoed bottles will return to shelves this summer for the seventh year in a row, continuing RumChata’s longstanding support of the military. Lone Survivor Foundation is a nonprofit organization that was founded by retired Navy SEAL and New York Times #1 bestselling author, Marcus Luttrell. LSF provides a no-cost Post-traumatic Growth Program to help service members, veterans, and their families recover from combat trauma. LSF serves families from all U.S. military branches and service eras. Donations from the RumChata Freedom Bottle directly support LSF's life-changing program, including expanding its services to include a Virtual PTSD Symptom Management program in response to the COVID-19 emergency. Lone Survivor Foundation’s in-person and virtual programs use therapeutic tools to provide education, coping skills, and stress reduction. "The RumChata Foundation continues to amaze us with their generosity, and we are grateful for their appreciation for the men and women of our Armed Forces.” said Tom Fordyce, Executive Director of Lone Survivor Foundation. "Partnerships like the RumChata Freedom Bottle cam-

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paign allow us to continue our commitment to serve our active duty service members and our veterans.” RumChata Freedom Bottles are available now in time for Memorial Day and will be on shelves and floor displays through the Fourth of July. All bottles sold benefit and support LSF. “We are extremely proud to have been able to support Lone Survivor Foundation over the years,” said Tom Maas, RumChata founder and master blender. “Reaching the million dollar mark could not have been accomplished without the help from our distributor and retail partners. Together, everyone’s commitment has made it possible to bring important programs and services to those who have served and are currently serving in our military.”

The RumChata 750 ml commemorative Freedom Bottle will be available across the U.S. More about RumChata and where it is available can be found at www.rumchata.com and on the RumChata Facebook page. More about Lone Survivor Foundation can be found at www.lonesurvivorfoundation.org.

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KidsLuv Introduces New Flavor,

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Just in Time for Summertime Fun

KidsLuv, the vitamin enhanced, zero sugar kids’ beverage, recently introduces its newest flavor, Peach Me, I’m Orange, which will be sold on Amazon.com and KidsLuv.com. The new flavor will join the brand’s two existing fun-luving flavors, Flying Fla-Mango and Starstruck Coconut. All three flavors have zero sugar, only 10 calories and 2g carbs, and nine essential Vegan vitamins and minerals in each serving. Launched in 2018, KidsLuv, created by Founder and CEO of The Luving Company Ashi Jelinek, is a unique kids’ beverage that features zero sugar coupled with a functional vitamin delivery system, giving kids a healthy dose of vitamins and minerals that their bodies need, without harmful sugars. All three flavors are 100% clean labeled, Certified Non-GMO, Vegan, Kosher and Gluten-free, and packaged in an 8 oz. recyclable, resealable, straw-free drink carton. In April 2020, KidsLuv celebrated a retail expansion into Walmart Stores and CVS Pharmacy, which welcomed KidsLuv original 4-packs of Flying Fla-Mango and Starstruck Coconut into over 2,000 total retail locations across 30 states. “We’re thrilled to welcome our newest flavor, Peach Me, I’m Orange, to the KidsLuv family,” says Ashi Jelinek, Founder and CEO of KidsLuv. “Summer might look different for many kids this year, but that doesn’t mean families have to settle for unhealthy kids’ beverages. Our third and newest flavor is a welcome solution for parents who are wearing many hats these days; serving KidsLuv will ensure kids get the hydration and nutrition they need, especially as we move into warmer summer days.” With dentists drawing links between gummy vitamins and cavities, KidsLuv aims to be a solution that parents can trust to be flavorful and functional, without sugar and artificial ingredients that traditional kids’ drinks contain. Nancy Guberti, a Functional Medicine Specialist and Nutritionist, recommends KidsLuv to parents as a convenient solution, “I recommend KidsLuv to my patients with small children as well as adults. It’s a wonderful alternative to juice and sugary beverages. There is no need to get anyone started or craving sugary drinks. Finally, there is a product that tastes great and does not contribute to obesity and is instead good for you!” In May 2020, KidsLuv will be distributed in Feed the Children’s Hope Boxes to over 800 families in the NYC area that have been greatly impacted during this unprecented time. Many of these boxes and products will be delivered “door to door” to families who have limited means of transportation to attain healthy food and beverage options. This donation aligns with the company’s ongoing mission to make a healthy drink option accessible and available to kids everywhere.

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Covid-19 Buying Behavior U.S. Consumers Aren’t Traveling, Unless It’s to the Grocery Store or Pharmacy The bottom fell out, of course, on many U.S. consumer spending categories during the month of March. But others, like grocery, drug and discount retailers, actually climbed significantly last month as consumers cooked at home and stocked up their pantries and medicine cabinets for an extended stretch of sheltering in place. Meanwhile, consumers were doing much more of their shopping online, as online sales climbed dramatically faster than in-store sales in virtually every retail category. Commerce Signals, a Verisk Financial company and leading source of U.S. retail payment insights, has analyzed the impact of Covid-19 on a variety of B2C companies and categories during the first quarter of 2020. The analysis leverages permissioned credit and debit card data across 40 million U.S. households. Those insights, which are the most extensive and in-depth in the industry, highlight the dramatic impact the virus has had on a wide range of consumer-facing businesses. The hardest hit categories were in travel, hospitality, and restaurants. Compared to the same period a year earlier, card payments in March to Airlines were down 66.6 percent; Hotels and Motels, 52.2 percent; Auto Rental, 35.9 percent, Other Transportation, 56.8 percent; and Travel Agencies, 69.5 percent. Restaurants and Bars were down 36.0 percent in March, compared with March of 2019. (See Figure 1)

compared to a year earlier. Discount or mass merchant stores, including names like Walmart and Target, were up 16.3 percent, and drug stores grew payment card sales by 10.1 percent. Hardware store card revenues were up 2.7 percent. Wholesale retail, which includes Club stores and Amazon, was up 11.7 percent in March, as compared to the same period of 2019. Online sales in these growing retail categories all increased faster than in-store payments. For example, in-store grocery sales were up 26.8 in March, compared to a year ago, while online grocery sales grew 64.5 percent in the same year to year comparison. In-store card payments to discount/mass merchant retailers climbed just 1.9 percent for March, but on-line payments jumped 62.7 percent. In the last week of March, in-store payments to discount/mass merchant retailers fell 24.8 percent compared to a year earlier, while payments for online sale climbed a whopping 121.3 percent. (See Figure 2.) In other retail categories that declined during March, online sales fell much less than in-store payments and in some cases grew compared to the same period in 2019.

Also hard hit were department stores (down 41.6 percent), clothing stores (down 43.5 percent), and recreation (down 39.5 percent).

A week-to-week analysis of payment card data shows how the impact of Covid-19 began to take hold in February and then grew precipitously during March. For example, card payments to Airlines were down 2.7 percent and 2.1 percent during the first two weeks of February. In the second and third weeks of March, payments were down 58.3 percent and 91.6 percent, respectively. Payments to Hotels and Motels were up by 10.0 percent and 10.1 percent during the first two weeks of February. However, by the second and third weeks of March, payments were down 37.9 percent and 91.1 percent, respectively.

But there were winners as well. Grocery stores saw payment card sales climb by 28.8 percent during March,

Commerce Signals also conducted analysis of Covid-19’s impact on consumer spending in major cities across the

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United States. Among regional differences, grocery, discount and drug store sales increases were significantly greater in Los Angeles than in Chicago, Dallas and New York. However, the decline in Hotel and Motel revenue was greater in L.A. than in those other cities. (See Figure 3)

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Global Restaurant Leadership Conference Announced Winsight—the producer of the National Restaurant Association Show, the Restaurant Leadership Conference, Restaurant Directions and Global Restaurant Leadership Conference, and the parent company of Technomic—today announces a special one-time-only event, Restaurant Recovery Summit (RRS), that will occur Nov. 17-19, 2020, at the Sheraton Dallas in Dallas, and virtually around the world.

ipate. In the event the live conference cannot go on, the virtual event will still happen.

Leaders of major restaurant companies will be sharing their views on the ongoing coronavirus crisis, and the steps needed to recover from it. Already signed on to speak are David Gibbs of Yum! Brands, who stepped into the CEO role as the crisis was beginning; Ritch Allison of Domino's, whose delivery model and value offerings have weathered the storm; and Paul Brown, who is building a multiservice restaurant company with Arby's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Sonic, Jimmy John's and Rusty Taco. Additional speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Winsight is proud to launch this event with the support of the National Restaurant Association, which will be sharing policy initiatives with the Winsight audience. In addition, the event will support the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund, created by the National Restaurant Association's Educational Foundation, to help restaurant industry employees experiencing hardship in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The agenda will focus on 10 key areas of the restaurant business that are rapidly evolving: consumer experience; off-premise; labor; safety, sanitation and security; technology; supply chain; finance; menu evolution; engagement/loyalty; and operations. C-suite executives from the biggest restaurant companies in the world and the fastest-growing emerging brands will share their stories from the year that was, and their plans for the future. The in-person version of RRS will be supported by a virtual component that streams recorded sessions to operators all over the world. The virtual component will occur in parallel with the live event and the weeks after so that suppliers and operators with travel bans in place can still partic-

"One of the lessons of history is that calamity inspires innovation," said Chris Keating, head of conferences for Winsight. "The restaurant industry is full of creative entrepreneurs who can work together to inspire the greatest comeback in business history."

Major industry suppliers have pledged their support to this conference and to the recovery of the industry. The Founding Sponsors are The Coca-Cola Company, IFFCO, NCR Corporation, PepsiCo Foodservice and Unilever Food Solutions. Additionally, Chowly, Ecolab, Nestle Professional, Certified Angus Beef, Hormel Foods Corporation, Procter & Gamble, NuArx, OpenCity and Welbilt have already signed on. Winsight remains diligent in ensuring the health, safety and security of all attendees and are working to exceed guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and local health organizations. In addition to several new safety measures, Winsight will be creating a contactless event and has implemented an attendee capacity limit to ensure proper social distancing. !""#$%$&'(')*+'$,*+*-./'$$ $$$01/'$2331'

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Maison No. 9

9 Founders - James Morrissey, Post Malone, & Dre London

!"#$%&" '$(&) Introducing Maison No. 9: A New French Rosé Created By Post Malone & Global Brand Equities Grammy nominated, multi-Platinum recording artist, Post Malone, announces his latest creation, Maison No. 9, a new French rosé created and developed in partnership with friend and entrepreneur James Morrissey of Global Brand Equities, and Dre London, long-time music manager and Founder of London Entertainment. A thoughtful collaboration designed to break down the traditional perceptions around wine and its barriers for con-umers, Maison No. 9 is a light, high-quality, accessible rosé from Provence, France. Maison No. 9 was born from an idea to bring together a best-in-class winery with Post Malone’s love of the Mediterranean lifestyle and rosé. Morrissey, an Irishborn entrepreneur, introduced Post and Dre to the opportunity first over stories at dinner in Los Angeles, followed by a visit to the vineyard in Provence just ays later. Deep rooted knowledge of the entertainment industry, along with a shared hustle mentality and love of wine, gave the business partners confidence that the venture would succeed.

“Rosé is for when you want to get a little fancy,” says founder Post Malone. “It’s a nice switch up and I have been thinking about doing my own wine for a while. It was great to work with Global Brand Equities because they saw the vision and we got to do some super cool stuff. Maison No. 9 goes down smooth, and you’re all going to love it!” Working closely with winemaker Alexis Cornu, winner of fifteen gold medals and seven 90+ point rosé wines, the founders spent much of 2019 – inbetween Post’s sold-out tour dates – traveling frequently to the winery. They tried many grape varietals and sampled over fifty blends until they developed a new blend of premium rosé that they were happy with.

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"When the three of us decided to do this, we made it a priority to make something special. Even with hectic travel schedules, we make time to visit the winery frequently as it’s more than just a brand to us - it's a lifestyle. We set out to bring the best French rosé to the modern consumer, with a brand that speaks their language," states Morrissey, whose company, Global Brand Equities, creates premium wine and spirits brands in partnership with some of the world's best recognized talent. Maison No. 9 is a 2019 Méditerranée IGP, 45% Grenache Noir, 25% Cinsault, 15% Syrah, and 15% Merlot, easily identifiable by its soft, light “Provencal Pink” color that shines through the sleek, slender, sustainable all-glass packaging. Intense and inviting aromas of freshly picked fruit, such as ripe pineapple, pear and strawberry, meet hints of sweet French desserts once uncorked. The clean, dry, crisp finish is balanced and round with a texture that is mouthwatering and savory, perfect for drinking on its own or with a variety of dishes. The name Maison No. 9 was inspired by Post’s favorite tarot card, the Nine of Swords, and represents overcom ing the daily challenges we all face. The positive message is reflected in the bottle, and no detail was spared in the creative process to ensure the vision for Maison No. 9 came to life precisely as the trio intended. The wine lives in a taller, sleeker extra flint bottle featuring an elongated neck, designed for an easy holding experience while socializing and with a glass in the other hand. Post had an instant vision to create a solid glass custom closure for the bottle with “battlements” inspired by a medieval castle near the vineyard. Following months of intensive prototypes, a fully sustainable glass closure with the signature No. 9 was created to encour age re-use of the bottle. “We have opportunities to create a lot of new projects with Post, and we are highly selective about what we invest our time and energy into. It has to be something we are really passionate about. With Maison No. 9, we knew immediate ly that it was the right fit. Between the people, the project and the product, the vision was there to create something authentic on the French Riviera that Post truly loves,” says Dre London.

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In the beginning, we never thought about conceptualizing a “ghost restaurant.” We’ve always done personal cheffing, meal delivery and catering. However, we decided to open up in a location that was a little more accessible to clientele because our meal delivery service was just getting so busy. We visualized a concept where customers could come in and choose from meals in display cases. While we do have a couple of tables, this was never going to be a dine-in restaurant and so our ghost restaurant was born! Now that the landscape has changed due to the pandemic, we expect a lot more restaurants will be opening or converting to this concept. The lack of a dining room and waitstaff means much lower overhead as an obvious benefit. We also have the freedom to explore so many more styles and cuisines. For anyone considering this venture, here are our biggest takeaways from being virtual restaurateurs. Location, Location, Location Many ghost restaurants open in less expensive, less desirable parts of town. However, we wanted an approachable storefront to offer carry-out service in a welcoming environment. We highly recommend paying a little more for a better location. The better location more than makes up for the increase in price to be in a desirable area. We also don’t have to worry about a lot of parking; patrons are typically in and out rather than parking and staying for a while. Does the Kitchen Size Matter? On the subject of space, obviously having a large kitchen is nice, but it isn’t necessary. One necessary consideration, however, is that you need a lot more prep space to package your meals. Aside from that, the kitchen size is simply a matter of timing and speed; a larger kitchen means more crew and faster production.

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Diversity is Delicious UNiTE Food, a delicious new entry in the protein bar category, is bringing the world a little closer together with a line of protein bars inspired by comfort foods and favorite childhood flavors from around the world. Based in Southern California, UNiTE is the world’s first globally inspired protein bar. The company launched this month with three fun flavors, each made with wholesome, nutritious, real food ingredients and packed with nut butters, hemp seeds, and prebiotic fiber. Offering 10 grams of protein each, UNiTE bars are gluten-, dairy-, and soy-free. Researchers at Nielsen.com find that millennials are more “multicultural” than previous generations, with a full 40% identifying as Hispanic, African-American, or Asian-American. More than 25% of millennials are first- or second-generation immigrants with strong ties to their countries of origin and nearly 75% say they appreciate the influence of other cultures on the American way of life*. In fact, according to recent data**, 67% of millennials consider themselves to be adventurous eaters. Says UNiTE founder and CEO Clara Paye, a naturalized American citizen, “I realized that I was bored with regular old protein bars because the flavors of my heritage were not represented. And I’m not alone! Shoppers are more diverse than ever and they’re looking for products that reflect their communities and tastes. So, I set out to use food as an instrument of inclusion and prove that diversity can be delicious with a line of protein bars inspired by favorite flavors from around the world. By making products that more people can relate to, we build more UNiTY for all.”

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1 cup ripe DOLE® pineapple, chopped and frozen 1 ripe DOLE® Banana, peeled and frozen 2-1/2 teaspoons powdered sugar 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk 1 teaspoon lime juice

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Dawn Professional Dish Detergent available at Sam’s Club is a great product for cutting through grease and grime in the sink. But it can also be diluted to clean countertops, dining areas, tile walls, coolers, windows and more. Dawn Professional can do the work of several different products in a very economical and efficient way. In the sink, Dawn Professional Dish Detergent can save up to 6,000 gallons of hot water per year – one gallon can make 128 sinks and more than 640 gallons of solution. Plus, it can pull double duty on other restaurant surfaces as part of a wash, rinse, and sanitize process. So in addition to saving time, Dawn Professional can help business owners large and small cut operating costs when they use it both in and outside the sink.

Tips for Improving Restaurant Cleanliness Cleaning a restaurant once or multiple times daily is more critical now than ever. Not only do restaurant owners have to prepare for surprise inspections, but they also have to weather online reviews from customers – the good, bad, and ugly. A BrightLocal study estimates 90 percent of consumers read online reviews before visiting a business, and with photos of great meals comes complaints about restaurant cleanliness, which can quickly tarnish a reputation. So, taking cleaning seriously can drive positive word-of-mouth online and improve profits. Here are a few easy tips for tackling messes with Dawn Professional Dish Detergent.

Cleanliness is Key For foodservice operators, saving time and money is more important than ever right now. As customers find their way back to restaurants, a versatile product like Dawn Professional Dish Detergent from Sam’s Club can help operators provide a clean environment and save time and money by squeezing value out of every drop.

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