Culinary Cues

AUGUST 7, 2021

If we see the challenge as something that has an answer if we take the time to really push our problem-solving skills, then a solution will eventually present itself. Let’s take one possible cause that is not on everyone’s radar: nurturing real interest in a restaurant career early on. So, first step – let’s refer to it as a challenge.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 10, 2020

Take a Measured Approach. Maintaining your social media, SEO and blogging efforts represent the bare minimum needed to remain relevant in your customer’s eyes. Now is the time to pay more attention to your website, take advantage of the downtime your hotel may have to audit this too. But be ready, how will you stand out?

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Culinary Cues

MAY 27, 2023

Encourage talk about food while on the job, take the time as a chef or manager to make “FOOD FACT” teaching moments throughout the day. Feed it to your staff members and talk about the book while you are engaging in daily tasks. Feed it to your staff members and talk about the book while you are engaging in daily tasks.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

This is a disease that lies dormant in many people just waiting to take over their every being if those in positions of leadership allow it to. It is apparent in the classroom, the local grocery store, your doctor’s office, the gym where you work out, car dealerships, airports, subways, hotels, and yes – restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Providing top-quality food and service should remain your restaurant’s foremost priority, but you also need to get the word out and attract new customers. While you are waiting to be seated, the hostess fans out a deck of cards containing four jokers. Book in advance, or wait half an hour for a table. Net result?

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 3, 2022

I shout while frantically rubbing my calf trying to work out that Charlie horse pain. 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. He is quite simply – awesome.

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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. But why stop there? These are not your grandma’s Jell-O salads.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 16, 2020

All it takes is an Internet connection, a bit of marketing savvy, and these expert tips. 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.

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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. Finally, you can also add which options your restaurant is currently offering: Dine-in; Take-out; Delivery. Social media (if any).

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Culinary Cues

MAY 12, 2022

Of course, there is a handful of masterful chefs and restaurateurs who can charge crazy prices to sold out audiences. 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.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 29, 2022

This is a direct message to all of those young cooks just starting out, dishwashers, culinary students, and seasoned veterans of the kitchen – you can go as far as you want to go in the food business as long as you are willing to put in the work, build a plan, and stick to the plan. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 3, 2024

It may not look the same and they may have never written it down, but this is their method of operation. [] LOOK THE PART Take pride in your appearance and the sharpness of your uniform. Whether you like it or not – people judge a book by the cover. Becoming GREAT takes serious dedication and lots of repetition.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

What started as a blog in 2006 expanded its social media presence a decade later. I’d be awestruck by just how much information there was in one issue and how elegantly it was styled and laid out. Around that time, Christopher Byron came out with Martha Inc. , There was nothing quite like that out there.

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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.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 15, 2021

Volunteer for a stage at a great local restaurant, take an occasional sabbatical to re-enter the industry, attend conferences and workshops, take a class on a new method of preparation, and belong to professional organizations. Yes, even faculty members need to continue to engage in the learning process. LACK OF REPITITION.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 13, 2023

I need a job” however becomes a sense of urgency that steps away from the negative and shouts out how important a job is to your survival. They work me to the bone”, must mean that a person feels like an indentured servant with no way out. I got the job!” Of course, I could go on and on. you can do better than this’”. -Dr.

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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. Taking the time to set up a restaurant organizational system is an investment – but it’s one that will certainly pay off in the form of more efficiency.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sure, luck can be involved, but luck is rarely something to depend on or take credit for. Every plate is perfectly executed, no returns or re-fires, the roast is a perfect medium rare, the grill marks are well-defined, that fish fillet is caramelized beautifully, and you never run out of prep. The list goes on and on.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 22, 2020

As previously stated – you can take the chef out of the kitchen, but you can’t take the kitchen out of the chef. You might find that a stay at home chef takes this organization to a new extreme and build a banquet/event order (BEO) for each meal and break. This time of displacement is tough on everyone.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

At least the real bad news is out of the way. Now, let’s think about the purpose of restaurants so that current and potential restaurateurs and chefs can choose the direction they want to take. Once we have a target we might at least be able to plan effectively to either re-invent or throw in the towel.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

We wanted to take a look back and highlight some of our favorite moments during our first season. Shawn is the host of not one but two podcasts— Digital Hospitality and Restaurant Influencers —and he stopped by ours to talk about creating a media brand out of your restaurant. That smartphone is your media center.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Between now and December, cookbook publishers will churn out some 100 new titles in service of promoting better living through eating. Haul out those baking pans! Even if you’re an experienced home baker, seeing this laid out in one place is illuminating. Nahid Joon is alive in every page of this book. they seem to shout.

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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. As cooks looking for the right blend, we must taste the world around us.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Here are six steps to take before opening any restaurant website builders. Restaurant website design: Taking a DIY approach vs. hiring a web development team Consider whether you want to build your restaurant's website or hire someone to do it for you. Check out this example from Barcelona Wine Bar for inspiration.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 7, 2021

You need to seek out the opportunities and prepare to thrive when one is in your sights – success doesn’t simply appear. Be patient – it will take time. [] COMMITMENT: “I am going to do whatever it takes to prepare for the position – I am in it to win it”. Success doesn’t happen on its own – you make it happen.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 4, 2023

I’ve been reading an interesting book of advice from dozens of prominent chefs: “Chef Wise” from Phaidon Books. This is my version and addition to his profound words: EYES ON THE POSITION OF CHEF: So, you want to make a career out of this kitchen work. Take care of your knives. Find a hobby that makes you smile.

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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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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

So, when you view a drawing, painting, or sculpture; listen to a piece of music; watch a movie or view a play; or read a book – you are encouraged to feel what the artist feels. MESSY WORKSTATION: Every cook knows that an orderly workspace (mise en place) is essential if the day is going to work out as planned.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 21, 2020

Once we learn to take a breath and put the brakes on typically intense lifestyles, always on the go, always more to do than there is time, constantly putting aside interface time with friends and family, and relying on technology for our entertainment – we might just be able to find solace in life. We have lots of time on our hands.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. Their business is built on the power of word of mouth—one of, if not the most useful marketing tools in the book. Before you get any ideas of a cheesy radio spot, take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Need a napkin?

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7 Shifts

JUNE 3, 2022

Here are a few ways to ensure you're scheduling with empathy: Get the schedule out in advance. Get the schedule done ahead of time and send it to employees with enough lead time that they can plan out their lives. Or perhaps even take a short trip to visit friends or family. Take a close look at your restaurant culture.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The kitchen in her previous New York apartment was so ugly, Doiron adds, that it was vetoed as a shoot location for her forthcoming debut cookbook, Justine Cooks: Recipes (Mostly Plants) for Finding Your Way in the Kitchen , out October 29 from Clarkson Potter. Out of pandemic boredom, she continued filming herself sporadically.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 14, 2024

I can’t remember the last time I opened this book and used it as a reference, but it is the title that drives me to keep it prominently displayed. Take a few moments to walk through your dining rooms and exude the joy you feel for the work. Take the time to share your positive stories with the team in your kitchen.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The chef is not just the leader of the kitchen, he or she is the leader of people, and as such you must act the part – all of the time, day in and day out, and when you want to as well as when you don’t. Talk with your cooks about music, physical artists, great books, and the history behind the profession of culinary arts.

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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. Durkhanai Ayubi with recipes by Farida Ayubi Interlink, out now. Monica Burton. Adam Moussa.

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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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7 Shifts

JULY 30, 2021

With plenty of restaurants to choose from, you want to make sure yours stands out from the rest. From stand-out social media accounts, to good old-fashioned mail marketing, we'll walk you through 12 unique customer-driving ideas! Your marketing plan is your restaurant's holy grail, so make sure you take the time to prioritize it.

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