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Dining Trends for 2024

Modern Restaurant Management

Chef driven fast casual restaurants feed consumers’ desires for high quality menu items delivered quickly and on the go. Eight-six percent of dames surveyed agreed that chef driven fast casual restaurants are filling a consumer desire for high quality menu items. What do you think are the biggest changes since the last survey?

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Why Training is the Key to Accurate Messaging About Gluten-Free Foodservice

Modern Restaurant Management

When staff are unable to answer basic questions about your gluten-free menu, or ask inappropriate questions of guests who inquire about gluten-free options, consumers may have doubts about your ability to ensure their safety or prepare a dish that meets their dietary needs. The first step is to clearly identify any gluten-free dishes.

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How To Boost Bakery Sales With Health-Focused Foods

The Restaurant Times

Health-focused food refers to food items that have nutrient-rich ingredients incorporated into them such that the taste doesn’t alter a lot but makes it healthy and satisfying. Since the inclusion of nutritional information in the menu is still an option, it is difficult to find a large volume of evidence to validate its impact on sales.

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How to design a restaurant recipe card–and share it

Clover - Restaurants

Here are some top reasons you should have recipe cards for your restaurant: To maintain quality and consistency: Even the most seasoned chef needs a reference every now and then. For menu development: Wanting to spice up your offerings? Whatever information you choose to include, organize it logically in distinct sections.

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A Coffee Shop Owner’s Guide to Handling Food & Dairy Allergies

Perfect Daily Grind

It doesn’t always take large amounts of an allergen to cause sickness or even death. This means that using the same jug to handle different milks could trigger a reaction in someone – even if the jug has been rinsed and contains only microscopic amounts of the offending allergen. Accidental cross-contact can put a person at risk.

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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

7 Shifts

Give out hard copies and make digital copies accessible on a cloud storage system so that staff can easily reference them. After new hires have completed the restaurant onboarding process, they'll be able to reference the employee handbook to refresh their memories on important procedures and practical information.

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How Chatbots are Revolutionizing the Restaurant Industry

The Rail

It is a broad term that can refer to anything from automated systems used in manufacturing to self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a major part of our lives for years now, but what exactly is it? AI is a machine’s ability to do tasks that would otherwise be done by humans. Artificial Intelligence in Restaurants.