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Balancing act: Restaurants work to serve both digital and in-restaurant diners

Customers coming into restaurants again combined with takeout business gained during the pandemic is creating logjams at some operations. By Jonathan Maze, Joe Guszkowski and Patricia Cobe on Oct. 15, 2021
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