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Hiring and promotional news from across the restaurant development and design community includes new hires and promotions at CORE, Del Frisco’s, McAlister’s Deli and MOOYAH Burgers, among others.

Week after week, developers and designers alike tell us that a key component in restaurant design today is creating an experience — an experience that might be worthy of Instagram. The popular app recently released a list of restaurants that are most frequently geo-tagged on their app and site.

James Beard Award-Winning, Hawaiian-fusion Chef Roy Yamaguchi has opened HUMBLE MARKET KITCHIN at the Marriott’s Wailea Beach Resort in Maui following a $100 million renovation and re-imagination.

One of Nashville’s top restaurateurs, Tom Morales of TomKats Hospitality, open his latest, Fin & Pearl, this month in The Gulch neighborhood of Nashville.

Michael Zislis, owner of The Zislis Group, a restaurant and hospitality group, opened Sea Level Restaurant & Lounge in the new Shade Hotel Redondo Beach in Redondo Beach, Calif.

Masaharu Morimoto, famed Japanese chef and star of Iron Chef and Iron Chef America, opened Morimoto Las Vegas in The District at MGM Grand. It’s the chef’s first restaurant in Las Vegas.

Mom-and-pop restaurants put together on the fly and on a budget can easily end up with a design that’s all function and no form. As a result, the customer experience they offer can easily fall short. It’s not a recipe for success.

Restaurants often have to serve a mix of purposes and uses — from changing menus with changing dayparts to flexible lighting to fit the mood throughout a day — but in the case of the recently opened Third Coast inside the Texas Medical Center, the restaurant had to serve an unusual mix of needs at an unusual destination.