There are 17 article(s) tagged Memphis Restaurant Association:

• January 2025

  • Flappers welcome at Memphis Restaurant Association’s Food Festival

    The Memphis Restaurant Association is looking to the past, roughly 100 years to the past, for its annual February food festival.

    By Jennifer Chandler January 07, 2025

• January 2024

  • Honduran immigrant named restaurateur of the year

    Almost three decades after he came to the U.S., Marco Puerto said it’s a “privilege and honor to be able to accomplish the American dream.”

    By Christin Yates January 07, 2024

• December 2023

  • Local restaurants worry about ‘seismic shift’ within industry

    A federal trade proposal would prevent restaurateurs from charging delivery fees, auto gratuities and credit card processing fees.

    By Christin Yates December 11, 2023

• May 2023

  • Memphis Allies mission to reduce gun violence expands to Orange Mound

    The Youth Villages program has partnered with Renardo Baker, who was already embedded in the community, to reach out to the neighborhood’s most high-risk residents.

    By Don Wade May 28, 2023

  • Memphis Restaurant Association seeks answers to city’s crime problem

    The area’s restaurant association wrote an open letter Wednesday to the city and county mayors about crime in a “cry for help,” according to the group’s president. 

    By Jennifer Biggs May 03, 2023

• February 2023

  • Table Talk: Memphian selected for Food Network competition show

    Chef Ryan Trimm has also been named Memphis’ Restaurateur of the Year, and it comes with a big party. 

    By Jennifer Biggs February 09, 2023

• March 2021

  • Next health directive expected to relax restaurant rules

    Look for later hours, bigger tables, less red tape and even a slight loosening of mask use for restaurants under the next health directive.

    By Jennifer Biggs March 11, 2021

• February 2021

  • Pandemic, cold weather can’t slow growth of Suga Mama SnoBalls

    Suga Mama SnoBalls is opening a second location in Southeast Memphis next month.

    By Linda A. Moore February 11, 2021

• December 2020

  • Increased ‘volatility’ is backdrop as commission calls for statewide mask mandate

    Shelby County commissioners called on Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Monday, Dec. 7, to enact a statewide mask mandate, but the vote wasn’t unanimous. It was among a series of COVID-related measures. 

    By Bill Dries December 07, 2020

  • Health Department releases some data about coronavirus investigations

    The Daily Memphian asked Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter and county Mayor Lee Harris for data used to make decisions about health directives affecting restaurants, and the Health Department released some information Dec. 3.

    By Jennifer Biggs December 06, 2020

• November 2020

  • Restaurateurs seek data and dialogue from Health Department

    The Memphis Restaurant Association wants to know why the Health Department rules continue to change for restaurants, and calls for better communication from health officials.

    By Jennifer Biggs, Jane Roberts, Bill Dries November 27, 2020

  • Memphis Restaurant Association seeks answers from Health Department

    Memphis Restaurant Association says the Health Department needs to share its data as it takes action to restrict restaurant business.

    By Jennifer Biggs November 25, 2020

• July 2020

  • Independent restaurants ask Health Department for same-day employee testing

    Small restaurants say they want their voices heard by the Shelby County Health Department when it comes to decisions that affect their business; send letter to director, Alisa Haushalter.

    By Jennifer Biggs July 29, 2020

  • Haushalter: Some test results taking more than a week

    Shelby County Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter said the agency is facing increasing challenges with through-put testing. There are situations where it is taking more than a week to get results back, she said.

    By Omer Yusuf July 09, 2020

• March 2020

  • MRA asks all Memphis restaurants to follow these rules

    Memphis Restaurant Association president asks all Memphis restaurants to read and follow guidelines for safe operation during COVID-19 crisis.

    By Jennifer Biggs March 18, 2020

• February 2020

  • Restaurateurs honor Shawn Danko; tamales at Elwood’s; February events

    Shawn Danko has been named the Restaurateur of the Year and will be honored at Sunday’s annual Memphis Restaurant Association banquet; February events still to come; tamales are back at Elwood’s Shack.

    By Jennifer Biggs February 17, 2020

• February 2019

  • Vive le Brooks is new name for annual wine and food series

    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art rebrands its food and wine series; the first Destination: Delicious Going Global event is booked for Feb. 13

    By Jennifer Biggs February 04, 2019