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2021’s vocabulary words for restaurant operators

A stressful year amid pandemic-related challenges taught restaurants a bunch of new words as they raced to keep up with changing consumer behaviors, supply chain and labor challenges, and more. By Heather Lalley on Dec. 21, 2021
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Restaurant operators continued to learn new vocabulary words in 2021, as the ongoing pandemic created migraine-level headaches for them around staffing issues, supply chain woes and more.

Some of the words on this 2021 vocab list may have been known before the year started, but they took on new meaning during the pandemic-fueled pressure cooker of the last 12 months.

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Heather Lalley is the managing editor of Restaurant Business, Supermarket News and CSP Daily News. She previously served as editor in chief of Winsight Grocery Business
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