Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

I remember how the book moved me. Its not too much to ask, too much to expect, too much to dream of. I thought back to the first time I read The Grapes of Wrath and placed myself in the hands of a marvelous American storyteller John Steinbeck.

Back of House 386

Back of House Travel Government Education 386

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 4, 2021

Restaurants that use a third-party tool to manage bookings should add that information to the GMB listing, allowing users to book a table directly from the search results. phone number, website URL, type of payments accepted, menu items, and photos of the establishment.

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SEO Website Management Online Ordering Mobile Ordering 577

EATER

DECEMBER 4, 2024

There’s no better or more thoughtful gift for any home cook than a book they’ll love along with the supplies they’ll need to get cooking. Cookbooks make fantastic gifts, and a thoughtfully chosen book can easily become a cherished addition to someone’s culinary collection.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 10, 2020

Maintaining your social media, SEO and blogging efforts represent the bare minimum needed to remain relevant in your customer’s eyes. With lots of travel bans likely to still be in effect for some time, your focus should be on domestic bookings. Work on Your Website. But be ready, how will you stand out?

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Hospitality Marketing Social Media SEO 518

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 7, 2021

This is defined in articles from local newspapers to the New York Times, from industry magazines and websites to social media, and from industry blogs to podcasts by the dozens – everyone states the problem, points a finger, and portrays the issue as someone else’s doing. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 27, 2023

Stop walking around with your phone glued to your ear. [] TRY THE GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED BOOK CLUB: This may sound naïve, but one of the travesties of the social media generation is that so many people no longer sit down and read a book. Feed it to your staff members and talk about the book while you are engaging in daily tasks.

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Technology Front of House Social Media Back of House 418

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If you are using a third-party tool to manage your bookings, you can also add it to your listing so that users can directly book a table from the search results. Every page and blog article on your website should have an SEO title and a meta description. Pictures of your establishment. A description. A phone number.

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SEO Website Management Online Ordering Information 537

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 16, 2020

Pinterest : If you want to share products, tutorials, or link to downloadable assets (an event-planning guide or recipe book, for instance), you can find plenty of female consumers and foodies on Pinterest. Twitter : The platform of choice for young adults who prefer a mix of original and curated content.

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Social Media Coupons Download Entertainment 505

EATER

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

What started as a blog in 2006 expanded its social media presence a decade later. I went through the book chapter by chapter, and wrote a piece in response. That was the genesis of the Martha Moments blog : creating a space to highlight the work she has done, and its importance to so many people.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Book in advance, or wait half an hour for a table. For example, you can create a blog to share the inspirations and stories behind your dishes. Another way to do this is to ask your front-of-the-house staff to ask someone making a booking for a large group if they are celebrating a special event. Net result?

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Marketing SEO Front of House Website Management 567

Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

There’s plenty of room for excellence in business – mediocrity is already over-booked. If your employees simply don’t care, then re-evaluate your hiring process and show them opportunities working for someone else.

Leadership 472

Leadership Food Truck Employee Relations Training 472

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This may seem like a strange topic for a blog focused on the restaurant industry and the world of food but hear me out. You can see it moving in and taking up lodging in our social media streams, in books that are published, articles in the news, music that is written, and a change in what we find on our televisions. Food for thought.

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Social Media Food Safety Small Business Retail 441

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 18, 2021

If you understand the implications of: “You can’t always judge a book by looking at the cover”, then you should understand that the sizzle may sell the steak, but the sizzle doesn’t always tell the full story. You might start by reading the 650 articles in this blog. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Customer Experience Blog Café Education 450

Culinary Cues

JUNE 13, 2023

The plight of the worker has been immortalized in books, articles, blogs, social media posts, union contracts, songs, and movies for as long as those methods of communication have existed. Of course, I could go on and on. There is, and always has been, a love/hate relationship between worker and employer.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 3, 2022

My focus will soon be on whether staff members show up as scheduled, will deliveries be on time and what will they short me today, how many reservations on the book, and moving through the day – one plate at a time. A group has booked the entire hotel for three days including all meals, coffee hours, and a reception with live entertainment.

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Back of House Hotels Front of House Book 435

Culinary Cues

MARCH 15, 2021

When there are 100 reservations on the books – you don’t have the luxury of spending three hours to turn six-dozen potatoes. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. One thing that I hear constantly from chefs who are asked about their opinions of culinary school graduates is that young cooks do not understand “sense of urgency”.

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Education Food Supply Training Communication 587

Culinary Cues

MARCH 21, 2022

Attention to detail cannot be turned on and off, so how a cook organizes his or workstation in the restaurant is how he or she will organize their home kitchen, their clothes, books, records, and food supplies. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. It becomes natural – how he or she lives. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Front of House Back of House Point of Sale Food Order 443

EATER

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Baking is full of mistakes, but it’s a rare baking book that tells you why, and in doing so encourages you to try, try again. Nahid Joon is alive in every page of this book. There is not much new or innovative in this book, but there is a whole lot of delicious nostalgia.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 10, 2020

In this blog, we’ll walk you through best practices for organizing your back office, reducing unnecessary clutter, and preserving your office as a place of efficiency. Manager Log Book If you put your manager log book down on your desk, you run the risk of it becoming another forgotten element in your back office.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 14, 2020

Support your local bookstore where the owner and staff are excited to turn you on to a new book. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Support the neighborhood restaurant with owners and employees who work side by side with a smile on their face. Bigger isn’t always better. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Harvest America Ventures, LLC.

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Small Business Leadership Customer Service Café 447

Culinary Cues

APRIL 29, 2022

Trade magazines, business books, management and leadership, self-help books, novels, travel journals, cookbooks, etc. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Trade magazines, business books, management and leadership, self-help books, novels, travel journals, cookbooks, etc. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG.

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Influencer Small Business Book Take-out 448

Culinary Cues

JUNE 4, 2023

I’ve been reading an interesting book of advice from dozens of prominent chefs: “Chef Wise” from Phaidon Books. Fiction, non-fiction, newspapers, cookbooks, respectable blogs, menus, etc. This is a compendium of quips that are based on experience; snippets of advice that we can all benefit from.

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Brewery Equipment Blog Book 418

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 11, 2020

After writing my third book The Recipe – a story of loss, love, and the ingredients of success , my book partner John David Mann recommended that we connect as a guest on a total of 60 podcasts to promote the book. www.harvestamericacues.com – BLOG. I was willing to do whatever it took, so we did.

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Communication Leadership Employee Relations Entertainment 407

Culinary Cues

MAY 12, 2022

It takes so much effort, time, and money to pull customers in for that first visit – we want to make them feel good about their investment and book another reservation soon. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. We want them to return often and tell their friends what a great place this restaurant is. How will you approach it?

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Pricing Consumer Goods Training Small Business 442

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 31, 2024

PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER Harvest America Ventures, LLC Restaurant Consulting www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG (Over 900 articles about the business and people of food) CAFÉ Talks Podcast [link] More than 90 interviews with the most influential people in food Restaurants with a clear, “bought into” mission statement are successful.

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Customer Service Social Media Customer Experience Reference 413

Culinary Cues

JULY 27, 2022

Those flavors are restaurants we have visited, chefs who inspire us, family traditions that are part of our background, trips that we have made, books we have read, markets we have visited, kitchens where we have worked, and fellow cooks with whom we have shared a stove. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

Influencer 440

Influencer Fine Dining Travel Book 440

7 Shifts

JUNE 3, 2022

Learn more about how Kelly McCutcheon and her team established Hopdoddy's core values in our blog post guide, and listen to Kelly on the podcast here. Use Manager Log Books. Use log books to give your day and night manager a way to share notes with each other. 7shifts Manager Log Book Software for Restaurants.

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Tip Distribution Email Marketing Communication Coaching 397

EATER

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The blogger behind the Instagram account Deep Fried Honey and the recipe site of the same name had produced five e-books since 2018, which her readers could purchase online, paying through Paypal or Venmo, and receive their book via PDF download. I’m a communist. I was never in this for money,” Hammonds says. “I

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Food Book Front of House Back of House 245

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is what greatness is made of – not a chapter in a book – a moment in time. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Without these moments an average line cook will never become a great line cook and a great line cook will never become a successful chef. You know all of this if you spent any amount of time in a kitchen.

Back of House 467

Back of House Front of House Education Café 467

Culinary Cues

JUNE 3, 2024

Whether you like it or not – people judge a book by the cover. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER Harvest America Ventures, LLC Restaurant Consulting www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG (Over 800 articles about the business and people of food) CAFÉ Talks Podcast [link] More than 80 interviews with the most influential people in food

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Uniforms Coaching Point of Sale Small Business 434

EATER

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

There are books from some of the restaurants we miss the most, offering recreations of their dishes and insights that make us nostalgic for the time before shutdowns. Edd Kimber Kyle Books, out now. Vanessa Kimbell Kyle Books, out now. This is a book about understanding.” It is not just a book about baking.

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2020 Book Food Supply Take-out 347

EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

What TikTok has upended, like the food blogs that came before it, is the belief that a cook needs credentials in order to create a following through food. When I arrive at her Brooklyn home, she’s pulling a tray of blueberry-pistachio cookies out of the oven; it’s their final test and all that’s left is to shoot the photos for her blog.

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Food Social Media Point of Sale Book 282

Culinary Cues

MARCH 21, 2020

Set the table, serve your dinner in courses, allow enough time to truly enjoy each meal, talk about food and family traditions that surround it – this is the time to truly embrace all the healing power of a meal. [] READ A BOOK. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. This time of isolation can be used to our advantage.

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Back of House Book Communication Leadership 446

Culinary Cues

JUNE 29, 2024

This can be crazy, over-the-top efforts as describe in Guidara’s book, Unreasonable Hospitality (I encourage everyone to read it) or it might be simple, unexpected efforts that set you apart and create lasting memories. Great food and service are the price of admission – context is the icing on the cake.

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Dine-in Customer Experience Back of House Customer Service 345

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Check out our blog post breaking these red flags down with what to avoid in a job description. So he created a universal training manual, his book— The Surprise Restaurant Manager. Carl Orsbourn and Meredith Sandland wrote the book on the future of restaurants. So I want to really make sure that's important,” says Cummings.

Social Media 448

Social Media Hiring Website Management Hospitality 448

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Reservations - Embed your reservations platform’s widget onto your website to encourage customers to book directly through you instead of via a third party. Depending on your goals, you may need extra functionality such as online ordering, booking a table, and local delivery. Online ordering - Ditto. Integrations make this easy.

Design 397

Design Online Ordering Social Media Mobile Ordering 397

Culinary Cues

JUNE 7, 2021

Washing and stacking dishes – be a star, dicing vegetables – make them “show quality”; organizing a cooler – do so like a librarian approaches stacks of books; caramelizing a mirepoix for a stock – make sure that every vegetable is properly browned and ready to release its flavor. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Café Talks PODCAST.

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