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CHEFS – SIMPLE AT A DIFFERENT LEVEL

Culinary Cues

Make the tomato an experience. Youre a chef, dont take the easy route of buying pre-cooked cold cuts for your meat roast, smoke or braise your own; make it your signature and let the customer see the product being sliced in front of them. Leave your customers speechless and your employees beaming with pride.

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OUR GIVING NATURE

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This leads to the intent of this article. Some may view dining out as a luxury that can easily be put aside, but time and experience has demonstrated otherwise. We put it all on the table when it is felt that the time is right, or situations demand it. So, here we are at a point when I believe it is important to do just that.

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WILL THE RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE BECOME IMPERSONAL

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This is not the normal amount of angst that has been present for decades fickle customer tastes, rising cost of goods, changing demographics, or escalating rents; there are far deeper concerns that make everyone scratch their heads in wonder. Is the experience in jeopardy? There are problems, right now, without answers.

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Lessons from French Bistros: How Small Restaurants Deliver Big Experience

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This article explores their charm, global influence, and the key elements that fuel their success. Even rural cafés in distant locales have adopted the bistro blueprint: hearty food served in a welcoming space. This intimacy creates a sense of belonging that turns dining into a personal, almost home-like experience.

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How to Calculate and Optimize Your Restaurant’s Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

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However, it’s best to understand how cost-effective your current customer acquisition efforts are before dedicating resources to it. Knowing how to calculate and optimize your customer acquisition cost (CAC) can help you make smarter decisions about your marketing and advertising strategies.

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CHEFS – TRUST THE PROCESS

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Repetition gives the chef experience in how to adjust. Your customers are less inclined to seek surprises and more inclined to expect consistency. Trust in performance, trust in product quality, and trust in value are what pulls most customers back to your operation.

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ARE YOU READY?

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How can we stay in business when customers have no interest in leaving their homes? Do you remember how challenging it was (and continues to be) to attract employees and customers once the pandemic seemed to settle down? Restaurants didnt know how to react. Well, after a few months, we started to figure things out.