Vegetable Vehicles

The San Francisco Bay Area was not my first experience with Korean cuisine, but there was definitely more Korean food available to try in the Bay Area than where I first tried it, St. Louis. Living…

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Teriyaki Lied To Me

The sign above sits beside the automatic doors allowing entry and exit to my local McDonald’s. It advertises the recent burger promotion, the てりたま (te-ri-ta-ma) burger. Teritama is a Japanese portm…

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The Not So Humble PBJ

Japan is a peanut cream country, not a peanut butter country. I’m not sure why this is the case, but one company that either created the trend or capitalized on it is called Lunch Pack. Stacked in …

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Onion Conundrums

My distaste for onions and mayonnaise makes Japanese cuisine a somewhat arduous course to navigate. So many of the quick bites in convenience stores have onions and/or mayonnaise ruining an otherwi…

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#NowReading2025 CULINARY LINGUISTICS: THE CHEF'S SPECIAL Edited by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius, & Susanne Ley via John Benjamin's Publishing Company brewed with Bee's Coffee #Books #Linguistics #LingStodon #LangStodon #FoodStodon #FoodMastodon
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"A profitable restaurant typically operates between 28-35 percent food cost. That is also believed to be the ideal food cost in the hospitality industry. After adding the labor cost and other expenses, the total cost goes as high as up to 75 percent of the total sales."
https://altametrics.com/blog/the-average-restaurant-food-cost-percentage-what-you-can-do-about-it.html

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The Average Restaurant Food Cost Percentage & What You Can Do About It

Let's talk about the average restaurant food cost percentage. There are tricks restaurants use to make their food cost as little as possible and then charge you as much as possible.

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Rava Thosai from yesterday's Indian restaurant stop.

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A late lunch with mutton biriyani.

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