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WHAT WOULD ESCOFFIER SAY

Culinary Cues

It’s been 89 years since Escoffier stood in front of a range for the last time, yet his presence is still felt by professional cooks and chefs. He has been one of my primary motivators and reference points throughout my career in food. He would ask: “What are you doing to excite and inspire the next generation of cooks?

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CULINARY EXCELLENCE WITHOUT SNOBBERY

Culinary Cues

Yes, it’s true – when the Michelin Guide decided to recognize some exceptional street food vendors with Michelin Stars, they broke the barrier of snobbery noting that excellence can happen outside of traditional fine dining. If fine dining is your objective, then make the commitment knowing what’s involved.

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Moves Modern Restaurants Are Making in 2024

Modern Restaurant Management

Moving to Multichannel Dining Experiences Dining out is… back? Restaurants know this, and it’s why they are focused on connecting the back and front of the house. Food availability is often in flux. In fact, 45 percent of restaurant operators expect competition to be more intense than last year.

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Wage Inequity is Plaguing the Restaurant Industry. Here’s How Four Restaurants are Fighting It.

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It leads to discrimination, sexism, and sexual harassment , and creates a disparity between the back and front of house. It has left far too many of its workers to rely on food stamps —an irony that shouldn't go unnoticed. The restaurant industry has a wage problem.

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The Guide to Equitable Restaurant Tip Payout Methods & Systems

7 Shifts

Full-service restaurant, fine dining. Casual restaurants, fast food, quick service. Establishments that require a diversity of staff (servers, hosts, bussers, food runners, etc.) Find the full guide to restaurant tip outs here. Servers, sometimes other FOH staff. Incentivizes servers. Even tip splitting. Tip pooling.

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BRING BACK THE 20 SEAT BISTRO

Culinary Cues

There were eighteen or twenty seats (mostly deuces) and in better weather maybe two more tables on the street or alleyway in front or beside these tastes of a chef. There were eighteen or twenty seats (mostly deuces) and in better weather maybe two more tables on the street or alleyway in front or beside these tastes of a chef.

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How the Minds Behind ‘The Menu’ Created an Authentic Fine Dining Hellscape

EATER

Star Anya Taylor-Joy, director Mark Mylod, and consulting chef Dominique Crenn on building the world’s creepiest restaurant It seems counterintuitive, but for many of us, there is perhaps no feeling more pervasive in the world of fine dining than discomfort. Mark Mylod: Rustic modernism was the aesthetic that felt most at home to us.