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The Central Kitchen Decision: When Asian Restaurant Groups Should Centralise Production

Somewhere between the fifth and the fifteenth outlet, most restaurant groups in Asia run into the same wall....

A 30-seat shophouse in Petaling Jaya prints a menu with 118 items. Three streets away, a stall sells...

A restaurant can know exactly how much it spent on ingredients last month and still have very little...

Ask a food manufacturer in Malaysia, Vietnam or Thailand what stands between the business and a new export...

A restaurant group does not need a central kitchen simply because it has opened several outlets. The stronger...

A busy dining room can hide a weak restaurant business. Sales may be higher than last year because...

When a long-running restaurant in Asia shuts its doors, the reaction follows a predictable pattern. A neighbourhood mourns....

A restaurant opening its fifth, twentieth or hundredth location has clearly grown. What that growth actually proves is...

Malaysia has been exporting durian pulp and paste to China since 2018. Frozen whole durians followed in June...