Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

After a couple years she moved back here as the chef of her current operation. He went on and on about the experiences he had there before accepting a position back here as a restaurant chef where with total control over the menu.” Now, let’s get you in uniform and I’ll walk you through the kitchen.” Well, Jack. Thanks, chef.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

Training ALWAYS pays back in dividends. You are not alone if the thought of putting your name on a restaurant awning has crossed your mind. One of the most tempting forays into entrepreneurship is the restaurant business. How hard can it be – right? Spoiler alert – nothing could be further from the truth.

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Cash Management Social Media Restaurant Law Communication 366

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 4, 2022

Thinking that the way to recover from the financial pains of a once in a century pandemic is to cut back on quality product and service and push the ceiling on pricing is short-sighted and ill-conceived as a strategy. Well then – what will? Try apathy on for size. It infects others who are easily convinced that it is the way it needs to be.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

When a destination welcomes more people than there are restaurant seats then even the mediocre seem to thrive but check back in a year or two and you will probably find a new owner, a new concept, and a different shot at success. Ironically, there is always room to be great and there is plenty of room to be mediocre. Plain and simple.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Here’s an example of an onboarding overview: Day One Orientation: Learning about the restaurant’s culture and history, meeting coworkers, and receiving a uniform. What to include in your restaurant onboarding process. What documentation to give out and collect during onboarding. What is employee onboarding?

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Transact

JANUARY 17, 2022

Ensure Uniformity. Back-Of-House Automation ) suite of apps and hardware by TransAct can help you accomplish everything mentioned above…and then some. Step-by-step Standard Operating Procedures are in place for good reason – several reasons, actually. Improve Quality Assurance. Ensure Personal Safety. Save Time & Money.

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Operations Food Safety Audits Uniforms 142

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Here are some indicators: YOU KNOW YOU HAVE MOVED BEYOND A PAYCHECK WHEN: You are proud of the uniform that you wear. At some level, it is great to have a paycheck, but any real connection to food or cooking is something that rarely crosses your mind. For a few, at some point that changes. When almost all of your friends are also cooks.

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Fine Dining Food Order Back of House Uniforms 389

Culinary Cues

MAY 26, 2020

When that occurs we will be able to go back to business as usual – right? Why is there no universal strategy that helps restaurants collectively walk through the process of re-opening with confidence and uniformity? How can we really stay on top of this challenge? Shouldn’t we be doing the same in restaurant kitchens?

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Kitchen Safety Leadership Food Safety Front of House 267

7 Shifts

JANUARY 7, 2020

What is the key to success in the restaurant industry? While a delicious menu and an inviting ambiance are critical components of a restaurant’s success, staff are the lifeblood of a restaurant. The people you hire to run your restaurant can make or break the business. Why Care About Employee Engagement? First things first: what is it?

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Employee Relations FOH BOH Certification 349

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

You should take physical inventory on everything from edible ingredients and cleaning supplies to dinnerware, uniforms, and tabletop items - anything you need to order more of. Kitchen items should be counted separately from the front-of-house and bar inventory. avocados in the stock room. Table of Contents. Inventory Basics.

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Ken Burgin

MARCH 1, 2020

Front of House: Have hand sanitiser available for customers at the entrance. Spotlessly clean uniforms – how are those aprons and chef jackets looking? Kitchen: Check the public view of the kitchen from outside – through a window or back door. You can stand out from the crowd by being spotlessly CLEAN and HYGIENIC.

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Front of House Back of House Uniforms Customer Service 155

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As a property chef you have reached one of the pinnacles of your career – having paid your dues and likely worked very hard in a variety of properties until demonstrating the right mix of skill, knowledge, experience, and temperament to hold the lead position in a busy kitchen. Congratulations! So.now what? So, what can be done?

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Long shifts can be painful for your feet, whether you’re running back to and from the tables to your restaurant POS system or spending the entire day standing in the back of the house. If not, slips, exhaustion, back pain, and knee issues may be their next problem. It’s not easy working in a restaurant.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 29, 2019

A smaller menu means fresher ingredients, since the ingredients for the dog items aren’t sitting around waiting to be turned into a meal and aren’t taking up space in your back of house. Menu engineering can be simplified as the steps taken to increase the profitability of a restaurant menu. Menu Pricing and 2. What to do?

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Sante

MAY 11, 2020

Regardless of whether you work in the front or back of the house, you are certain to be on your feet for long hours. Common areas of the body in which restaurant workers experience joint pain from these types of injuries include knees, lower back, ankles, and shoulders. Your lower back is particularly vulnerable , though.

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360Training

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Make sure to clean the back of your hands, wrists, between your fingers, and under your fingernails. Going to the front of the house. When you show up for your shift, wear clean clothing, not the same uniform from the day before. For instance, you can use hairnets and tie long hair back. Hand Washing. Handling raw food.

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Food Uniforms Transportation Front of House 68

EATER

JULY 31, 2020

My bottles were just multiplying — I’d buy things, forget them in the back of the cabinet, and all of a sudden was left with three huge bottles of crushed red pepper,” Woodhouse told me. Stay-at-home orders changed all of that. Caruso’s project seemed entirely doable, if a little time consuming. million times.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 4, 2023

According to historians, the first mention of coffee in the US dates back to 1668 when either the British or the Dutch brought beans to New Amsterdam (now known as New York). Coffee houses soon started to open on the East Coast, mostly in New York and Boston. Read on for more of their insight.

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Apicbase

APRIL 5, 2024

By integrating software and hardware like POS systems and kitchen printers with back-of-house systems like accounting and inventory management software, restaurants can achieve greater efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. What Back-of-House Processes Can Restaurants Automate? What Is Restaurant Automation?

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Apicbase

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

At the forefront of the UK’s culinary scene, Heavenly Desserts shines as a beacon of innovation. Founded in Derby, England, in 2008, this restaurant franchise skilfully navigates the challenge of blending traditional hospitality with a cutting-edge digital strategy. The icing on the cake was Deliveroo’s Best Dessert Restaurant Award.

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Apicbase

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

At the forefront of the UK’s culinary scene, Heavenly Desserts shines as a beacon of innovation. Founded in Derby, England, in 2008, this restaurant franchise skilfully navigates the challenge of blending traditional hospitality with a cutting-edge digital strategy. The icing on the cake was Deliveroo’s Best Dessert Restaurant Award.

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EATER

OCTOBER 21, 2022

When faced with the problem of too many apples or a bunch that have gone neglected, apple butter is one of the easiest ways to transform an unwieldy, slightly bruised bulk into a spreadable treat that can liven up any pastry or biscuit, while also making your house smell better than a Yankee fall-themed candle in the process. Apple Cake.

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Sante

JULY 18, 2019

From the moment patrons walk in the door until they leave, the interaction with hosts, bartenders, servers, bar-backs, bussers, and cashiers should be warm, engaging, authentic and sincere. Be consistent. If you have any doubts about this, just consider McDonalds (one of the top 10 brands in the world, valued at over $43 billion).

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Customer Experience Uniforms Customer Service Back of House 108

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Legal and other matters referred to in this article are based on 7shifts' interpretation of laws existing at the time and should not be relied on in place of professional legal advice. With labor laws on age, wage, overtime, and time off–many of which vary between New York State and New York City–it’s easy to overlook a law or two.

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EATER

JANUARY 8, 2021

How two Mexican-American birrieros made the beloved dish a sensation in America In 2005, two Mexican-American teenagers from LA met at the fair in Coatzingo, Puebla, during Semana Santa, or Holy Week, a time when countless Mexican-American families head back to their family’s hometowns all over Mexico to visit relatives.

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EATER

JUNE 11, 2020

with little guidance aren’t going to help restaurants as they reopen nationwide As restaurants reopen throughout the country and the world in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurant owners face a mind-boggling array of challenges , from byzantine new regulations to hiring back staff to navigating PPP loans.

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The Restaurant Times

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Develop a timeless restaurant brand identity that resonates with your target demographic and they’ll keep coming back and bring their friends along. Creating a distinctive and memorable restaurant brand is one of the most efficient methods to increase customer loyalty. Here are 4 ways you can create a unique identity for your restaurant. .

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Apicbase

JULY 1, 2022

With these expansions, the importance of the back-of-house is growing exponentially. The thinking used to be 70% front of the house and 30% back of the house, but now some operators are saying it should be 30% max front of the house and 70% back of the house , hence the rise of centralised kitchens.

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The Restaurant Times

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It is equally important for you to follow it and look back to it whenever required. . An efficient business plan is indispensable as it helps to look back and seek solutions when the situations are unfavourable. Due to this, the bakery business has been in the limelight for quite some time now. in the next five years. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features Boston Market, Danu Partners, P.F. Chang’s, Wing Squad, Yumpingo, Restaurant Revolution Technologies, Waitbusters, Dairy Queen, Fish City Grill, The National Restaurant Association and the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation and Keilhauer. New CEO at Boston Market. The plan is here.

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Online Ordering Hospitality Leadership Design 122

Lavu

MARCH 30, 2020

All employees, whether front- or back-of-house, should be clear on the long-term goals of your business. This documentation should be available for all to see in an employee handbook or posted in the back-of-house, so people can refer back to it if there is a clash of opinions regarding obligations.

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Employee Relations Training Hiring Back of House 78

EATER

JULY 11, 2022

One widely accepted theory is that yogurt dates back several millennia to Mesopotamia. The answer: not nearly enough. That said, exploring the world of yogurt can be simultaneously exciting and a lot to tackle. So without further ado, let’s dive in. First and foremost, what is yogurt? Who discovered yogurt? “I

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Back of House Transportation Consumer Goods Reference 95

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature Ono Food Co, DoorDash, Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice, Rouxbe, Presto, Burger King and Uber Eats, Pared, Tork, Restaurant Technologies, Willie Degel, Bolay, Ritual, Preoday and TISSL, AdTheorent and Voodoo Doughnut. World’s First Mobile Restaurant Powered by Advanced Robotics. Ono Food Co.

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Food Truck Customer Service Customer Experience Dietary Restrictions 126

Touch Bistro

MARCH 25, 2021

Considering three in four restaurant workers leave their employers within a year, and the average cost of turnover can set a restaurant back as much as $5,864 per employee (ouch!) After all, employees are the heart of your restaurant, and setting them up for success starts with the onboarding process. Let’s get started!

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature The Local Culinary, Ordermark and DoorDash, Lavu and Omnivore, Revel and 7shifts, Tocaya Organica and Postmates, bd’s Mongolian Grill and Lightspeed POS. Local Culinary Expanding. Led by Alp Franko, The Local Culinary also expanded from eight to 20 concepts, based on popularity and demand.

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Izettle

MARCH 28, 2019

It’s an approach that Maxwell implemented in one of his own businesses, losing the standard house coffees, taking sugar off the tables and ditching the menus at Colonna and Small in Bath to change the conversation and help turn his establishment into a destination coffee shop. The customer experience can always be improved.

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Izettle

MARCH 28, 2019

It’s an approach that Maxwell implemented in one of his own businesses, losing the standard house coffees, taking sugar off the tables and ditching the menus at Colonna and Small in Bath to change the conversation and help turn his establishment into a destination coffee shop. The customer experience can always be improved.

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