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THE INTER-DEPENDANCE OF BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY RESTAURANTS

Culinary Cues

The stores were empty, and restaurant service staff were staring out windows from the vantage of unfilled seats. One of the most difficult tasks that any restaurateur or chef faces is convincing a customer to walk through the door for the first or twentieth time.

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Improving Customer Experience For Your Restaurant Online

Restaurant Engine

The customer experience starts with your online presence before it gets to your dining room. It’s often the “door” your customers first walk through. You want to always be working on improving customer experience for your restaurant online. In this article, we’re going to tell you how and give you some tips.

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CHARGING FOR BREAD -SERIOUSLY?

Culinary Cues

I suppose it was only inevitable that this new method of doing business would creep into restaurant and other food related businesses. In fact, our business is based on the concept of gathering in a special place where service with a smile was the obvious complement to “breaking bread”. Bread has always been a given.

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THE HANDSHAKE OF THE HOST DETERMINES THE FLAVOR OF THE ROAST

Culinary Cues

How we greet and welcome people into our fold does have an impact on the quality of the product and experience we offer. Customers would like up, sometimes around the block, hoping for a seat in her rather small restaurant where she featured, what we called – blue plate specials. I asked her what made her food so special?

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THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO DISAPPOINT

Culinary Cues

Restaurants are open, and customers who have been prisoners of the pandemic are anxiously coming out of their shells and flooding to restaurants that are ill equipped to deal with the surge. Cookbook sales on Amazon spiked and grocery stores were challenged to keep food on their shelves. In the meantime – here we are.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Fast Food Has Become a Hi-Tech Job

Modern Restaurant Management

Consumers visit a fast food or quick serve restaurant (QSR) with a goal in mind: secure a tasty meal incredibly quickly. Once upon a time, a frontline employee at a fast food restaurant did not necessarily need technological skills to apply for the job. Who makes the magic happen? Cashiers, cooks, and other QSR crew members.

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THE MISUNDERSTOOD CHEF

Culinary Cues

Most restaurant owners, managers, family members of cooks, friends of cooks and chefs, those in other professions, service staff, and restaurant patrons, don’t get it. When the menu is not their own then they are left with all the responsibility for the guest and employee experience and very little authority to set the stage for success.