Ken Burgin

Why Relationship Marketing Is the Only Play That Works This Season... …oodservicehospitalitynews.beehiiv.com/p/why-relation…

@LaurentRie28741 Thanks for sharing all these ensembles and collections… 🙏🏼

Entre clair-obscur dramatique et perfection anatomique, Roberto Ferri (né en 1978) est le maître absolu du "Néo-Baroque". Chaque toile est un poème visuel, sombre et charnel, qui ressuscite l’âme du Caravage au XXIe siècle. Un choc esthétique pur. ​#ContemporaryArt #Peinture

“How Do I Get Out?” – The Hard Truth About Selling Your Shop in 2026. Great tips and insights for a shop, with many applications for a cafe or restaurant… newsagencyblog.com.au/2026/04/04/mar…

Is Your Gift Shop Leaking Cash? 5 Hidden Profit Traps to Watch - lots of relevance here for cafe and restaurant owners… blog.towersystems.com.au/2026/03/30/is-…

4 practical alternatives to discounting, that still drive a better spend sbo.financial/blog/wealth-cr…

Menu Engineering - let's break this theory. What works and doesn’t in the age of phone menus and QR codes… …oodservicehospitalitynews.beehiiv.com/p/let-s-break-…

Сегодня особенный день, и мне хочется сказать так много… Но попробую всё передать фотографиями и картинками. Дорогой Захар! 🎉 С 18-летием тебя! Как ты так быстро вырос? Ты очень умный и невероятно добрый — редкое и ценное сочетание. Встречала его раньше всего один раз в жизни, так что береги эту гремучую смесь! Стоит Захару появиться на фото — и в комментариях тут же разворачивается нешуточная битва: «Вылитый Алексей!» «Нет, вылитая Юля!» А правда проще: Захар никого не хотел обидеть, поэтому похож и на Алексея, и на меня😉 С днем рождения! Поздравляю тебя от себя и от того парня. И стараюсь любить тебя тоже за двоих❤️

Break-Even Analysis for Restaurant Operators: In-depth look including how to calculate it more effectively, why break-even matters so much & what common mistakes can occur -runningrestaurants.com/break-even-ana… #restaurantprofits

@MoreBirths @peterfrankopan Cc @tylercowen 😊

Patriarch Ilya II of Georgia passed away this week at age 93. He singlehandedly created a baby boom in his country when he offered to personally baptize every third or higher birth. He was godfather to over 50,000 children.

They Just Can't Absorb It Your Way - issues with restaurant training… …oodservicehospitalitynews.beehiiv.com/p/they-just-ca…

On March 12, India formally asked China for emergency urea to keep its fertilizer plants running. On March 16, China halted NPK fertilizer blend exports and extended its phosphate suspension through August. Read that sequence again. The world’s most populous nation asked the world’s largest fertilizer producer for help. The response was a lockdown. This is the second trap. The first trap is Hormuz. One-third of global seaborne fertilizer trade physically blocked. Transit collapsed 97 percent. Gulf urea, ammonia, and sulfur stranded behind mines, drones, and an insurance market that has fractured beyond repair. The second trap is China. Beijing looked at the Hormuz crisis, calculated that Gulf sulfur (over half of China’s imports) would not arrive, and made the rational decision to protect 1.4 billion of its own people first. Strategic sulfur reserves activated. Commercial nitrogen and phosphate stocks released early. NPK blends locked down for export. Phosphate banned through August. The 725 million tonne grain target in the 15th Five-Year Plan does not bend for India’s Kharif season. Nobody should be surprised. This is exactly what China did in 2022 when the Ukraine shock hit. It is what China will always do. And it is what every government with the capacity to hoard will do when the molecules run short. The crisis does not produce global solidarity. It produces national triage. And in national triage, the countries with domestic production and strategic reserves survive. The countries that depend on imports from those countries do not. India has 17.7 million tonnes of fertilizer stockpiled, up 36.5 percent year-over-year. That is a buffer, not a solution. Plants are running at 60 percent capacity. The subsidy bill has been revised to 1.86 lakh crore rupees, over 40 percent of the entire subsidy budget, with urea sold at 242 rupees per bag against international prices many times higher. If Skymet’s 60% probability of below-normal monsoon materializes during Kharif, India faces a food production challenge of a severity not seen since the crisis that prompted the Green Revolution. Bangladesh has shut 4 to 5 of six urea factories. Boro rice season is underway with no domestic nitrogen. Pakistan’s debt service consumes 81 percent of tax revenue. Egypt feeds 69 million on bread subsidies at prices it never budgeted while owing $28 billion in external debt. Southeast Asia faces granular urea above $700 per tonne. Sri Lanka, the country that already proved what happens when fertilizer vanishes, faces 15 to 30 percent yield risk from the same import dependence that collapsed its rice output 40% in 2021. Now map the sulfur cascade that almost nobody is tracking. Roughly half of global seaborne sulfur trade is Gulf-sourced. Sulfuric acid is the chemical required to convert raw phosphate rock into plant-available fertilizer. Without Gulf sulfur, phosphate processing breaks globally. Morocco’s OCP, the world’s largest phosphate exporter, imports roughly 3.7 million tonnes of Gulf sulfur annually. China imports over 4 million tonnes. The sulfur shortage does not just constrain nitrogen supply. It simultaneously fractures the phosphate chain, creating the first simultaneous disruption of all three primary crop nutrients since the Haber-Bosch process was industrialized. Two forces are now converging on the global food system from opposite directions. Iran blocks the molecules physically. China blocks them administratively. Neither is acting irrationally. Both are executing national survival logic. And the countries caught between them, the ones with no domestic production, no strategic reserves, and no fiscal capacity to compete on the spot market, absorb the full force of both. 318 mn people were at crisis-level hunger before either trap snapped shut. The math does not require malice to produce catastrophe. It only requires geography, chemistry, and a planting calendar that waits for nobody. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@artinsociety @degasblue 😎

Why are bedside tables generally so pokily small? Seen here in her bedroom at La Casa Azul in Mexico, Frida Kahlo bucks the trend and enjoys a generous space for her books and other nicknacks ~ even including a miniature double bed (photo: Gisèle Freund) improvisedlife.com/2022/12/12/big…

Yep, 6/7 done! ✅

We should be hearing from Will Guidara — Mr. Unreasonable Hospitality take-care-of-your-teams restaurants-are-family himself — about this Noma shitshow but he and others in the hospitality industrial complex will not say a word. He will not to risk his bestie status with Redzepi.

Breaking the Language Barrier: Training Tools That Meet Every Team Member Where They Are chart.org/training-tools…

Worth following this wonderful photo account for a tonic to the current ME horrors…

@degasblue @William5849 He got Ivanka to do something similar last time, should have seen the look from Angela Merkel!

@William5849 Incredible cheek, you mean? What exactly does she bring to the table of such a serious institution? I am absolutely all for women taking position of power, where deserved, but this is beyond laughable.

🚨BREAKING: Melania Trump STUNS the world by becoming the FIRST, First Lady to preside over the Security Council at the United Nations today. What an incredible First Lady!

@PhilipProudfoot I’m getting breathlessly excited ads on podcasts about holidays in Dubai! 💥

I think my instagram adverts need a little updating.

One of the best things about shopping at #Bunnings is the diversity of the staff. I’ve been served by LGBTQI+ ppl, people with Downs Syndrome, people from many different ethnic groups etc etc and I just fkn love it. Well done Bunnings..!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@PhilipThalis @AlboMP Yes me too, hilarious or tragic? The Liberal Party on its knees thinks bringing back Johnny is the answer?? 😂🤣😩

Received this odious email, signed by that certain villain John Howard, celebrating 30 years since election of his, the most destructive Govt in Aust’s history. Yet here we are, also marking 30 years of @albomp in Fed Parliament, such a hollow man whimpering in Howard’s shadow…