The Restaurant Group

JANUARY 10, 2025

Restaurant interior design is not just about making things look prettyits about creating an atmosphere where people feel comfortable, excited, and connected. When customers walk in, the design sets the tone before they even taste your food. Good design isnt just decorationits the backbone of an unforgettable experience.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Keep the design simple, use high-quality images of your food, and include strong calls to action (like “Book a Table” or “Order Now”). Blog about food to boost your restaurant’s online visibility Don’t waste your website’s potential by just posting your menu or event updates.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 4, 2021

But the advertising and marketing also sells a snarky sense of humor , elevating the simplistic brand design to create a funky, unique personality that appeals to the target market. Setting aside the logo design for the moment, however, another aspect of making color work for your restaurant marketing is the decor of the building itself.

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Marketing Loyalty Program Social Media Online Ordering 474

ChowNow

MARCH 7, 2025

Even if your Google Business Profile (GBP) and citations are optimized, a poorly designed website can hold you back. To improve mobile usability: Use a responsive design that adjusts to different screen sizes. Write local-focused blog content. Make sure buttons and menus are easy to tap on a phone.

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SEO Online Ordering Mobile Ordering Website Management 195

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2021

If your restaurant has a blog, consider adding author bios to your blog posts. You could even host competitions asking them to design new logos, come up with new dish ideas, or engage with your business on another, more personal level. Include Your Customers in Your Celebrations. Host Competitions and Contests.

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Social Media Customer Experience Email Marketing Online Ordering 508

Culinary Cues

APRIL 14, 2025

The important thing to note is that each story, whether entirely true or not, is designed to give a dish a unique part in the play that takes place every day that a restaurant welcomes guests. As is the case with Caesar Salad, the story sells. Food for thought.

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Wasserstrom

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Designing and building a restaurant is a complicated process. Potential owners will benefit from having […] The post Design & Build: Budgeting for Your Restaurant Launch appeared first on The Official Wasserstrom Blog.

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Design Blog Healthcare Hospitality 91

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Restaurant websites and blogs are great platforms for talking about sustainability initiatives like the use of sustainable ingredients, recycling programs, energy saving programs and/or participation in food donation programs. Consumers want restaurants to embrace sustainability and are making their dining choices accordingly.

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Recycling Sustainability Loyalty Program Social Media 567

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 12, 2021

He or she must relish viable analytics, well designed budgets, and profit/loss statements. This does not mean that the chef or professional cook must be expert at any of these processes or skills, or that he or she be the designer and driver of these important pieces of the business puzzle. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG.

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Restaurant Law Education Definition Social Media 470

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

For those of you not familiar with the term, Vlog is the equivalent of a blog, but it contains videos rather than prose. Just like a blog, you need to be willing to put in the work before seeing the returns. With online DIY tools like MustHaveMenus , high-quality menu design has never been more attainable. Tasty-Style Videos.

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Marketing Seasonal Menu Consumer Goods Blog 569

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Before deciding on the design you want, consider all angles. Check out Brett McHale's Wordstream blog on how to advertise local businesses on Facebook. The event was designed to get the whole family involved. Well, Buffer Blog found that engagement was 32 percent higher on weekends for Facebook posts in general, for a start.

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Social Media Advertising Events Customer Experience 493

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Why not highlight them on your social media pages or in your restaurant blog. Assign cooks the responsibility to design menu features and then celebrate their work. Invest in their excellence and they just might invest more in yours. Make excellence the rule and send mediocrity out the back door.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

A well-designed program will instill an understanding of discipline, the foundations of cooking, passion, structure, the how and why of cooking, and the professionalism that will help to define the type of chef you may become. This is the biting question, the one that helps a young cook decide what path to take.

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Hotels Point of Sale Cash Management Training 505

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2022

Vegan burgers, pizzas and coffees are gaining popularity as cafes and restaurants are designing their business models to not only accommodate vegan consumers but also to provide delicious vegan food items. Thus, in this blog, we discuss how restaurants are overhauling and redesigning their business models to attract vegan customers?

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Seasonal Menu Beverage Sustainability Fine Dining 508

ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

For more ideas on how to convert third-party customers into direct ones, check out our blog on Third-Party App Strategy. Designate a specific area for assembling online orders so they dont get mixed up with dine-in tickets. Post high-quality photos, behind-the-scenes videos, and customer shoutouts.

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Online Ordering Ordering Email Marketing Mobile Ordering 195

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2022

In this blog, we will discuss the changing face of the restaurant industry as a result of the introduction of food delivery and service robots. It is an outstanding decision to use such robotic contactless services and avoid human-to-human interaction in the restaurant industry. Rise of Service Robots- A New Era of Human-Like Services.

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Delivery Food Customer Service Front of House 575

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 12, 2024

Innovative AI technology designed to review and analyze credit card statements uncovers hidden processing and merchant fees within these statements, showing restauranteurs where they could be saving money when processing cards. The technology not only can create content but also optimize it for SEO purposes to help target customers.

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Audits Back of House Employee Relations SEO 449

Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Consider this – the menu is the most important component of a successful restaurant and once designed it can, and should, impact every other aspect of the business. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Far too many times the menu takes a back seat to all other planning that will lead to serious miscalculations along the way.

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Menu Seasonal Menu Front of House Café 482

The Restaurant Group

MARCH 27, 2025

Menu Psychology involves strategic menu design, menu formatting, menu presentation, and menu organization to make decisions easier for customers while maximizing a restaurant’s revenue. Menu Psychology is the science of designing a menu structure that encourages diners to make specific choices. Why Does Menu Psychology Matter?

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Design Menu Customer Experience Influencer 78

Culinary Cues

MARCH 9, 2021

While the hot line may be home to the adrenaline rush and the machismo associated with a bit of suffering to accompany the excitement – the cold kitchen is a place of a methodical approach towards design and structure. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. There can be no “utilitarian” salad in a true garde manger department.

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Presentation Fine Dining Seasonal Menu Design 449

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2020

This is where your branding, design, and gimmicks come into play. Reading food industry blogs and taking note of your competitors’ strong and weak points can give you insight into how you can improve your services. Reports show that 71 percent of consumers get frustrated if their experience with you isn’t personalized.

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Customer Service 2020 Social Media Customer Experience 440

Culinary Cues

MARCH 27, 2020

Those doctors, nurses, healthcare staff members, first responders, firefighters and police, utility workers, and yes – grocery store employees who respond to their designation as “essential workers” – and put themselves in harms way to help others. James Dyson – inventor and vacuum cleaner designer: [link]. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Leadership Healthcare Social Media Hospitality 388

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

A menu should thus be designed and priced to make those items seem essential. Design your wine by the glass program to make sense for the guest and the property. If we fail to look at the entire restaurant package, then we fail to realize how to earn profit. There is no logical reason for a pound of meat.

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Fine Dining Food Truck Back of House Pricing 449

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2021

In this recent blog post , my co-author Megan Welker and I noted that consumers have four different modes when they shop: Collect, Seek, Comfort, and Connect. The technologies that enable digital menus, combined with good service design principles, can do much to remove friction from the dining experience. Say goodbye to token dishes.

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Back of House Seasonal Menu Customer Experience Fast Casual 474

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Sure, this is naïve, but remember this country’s restaurant business was built on the backs of private, single unit entrepreneurships. Small businesses (restaurants) are the heartbeat of your neighborhood, the spine of your local economy, and spirit of your town.”. PLAN BETTER -TRAIN HARDER.

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Seating Front of House Back of House Cash Management 474

Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Nearly nine years ago, during the first twelve months of Harvest America Cues blog, one of my articles went viral attracting almost 40,000 views in one day. The article struck a nerve with its focus on A Cook’s Kitchen Laws. Since then, more than 100,000 people have read and shared that article. Never let the disease of mediocrity sneak in.

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Coaching Restaurant Law Article Training 447

Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2025

A win-win-win. [] RESULTS: The process is designed to yield the results that everyone expects. If you and your employer are confident in your abilities, then the result will be customers who trust in your ability to consistently meet and exceed THEIR expectations.

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Uniforms Coaching Customer Experience Restaurant Law 223

Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

The hiring process is one of the most important steps in designing and delivering a great product or service. In other words: what you put into the system is what you get out of the system. YOUR EMPLOYEES ARE YOUR GREATEST ASSET OR YOUR MOST SIGNIFICANT LIABILITY. Hire people who “fit”.

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Leadership Food Truck Employee Relations Training 472

Culinary Cues

MARCH 3, 2021

www.harvestamericacues.com – BLOG. We can do this and there has never been a better time to think about how we move in this direction. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Harvest America Ventures, LLC. CAFÉ Talks Podcast.

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Small Business Dine-in Seasonal Menu Café 450

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Every day a cook designs and executes a menu that requires an understanding of texture, smell, taste, and sound, while painting a beautiful dish on a plate. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. When the plate comes back clean, then a cook knows immediately – job well done! PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. CAFÉ Talks Podcast.

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Back of House Reference Presentation Mobile Ordering 473

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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 70 interviews with the most influential people in food Wax on, wax off, young grasshopper.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 15, 2021

Developing and presenting ways of enhancing their degree through continuing education, on-line resources, short training videos, and other communication pieces such as blogs and a resource center that students might contact once they graduate is a great way to become a partner in student success. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG.

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Education Food Supply Training Communication 587

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

While SEO is most-often associated with keywords and content, site design does play a role in searchability. In fact, designing a mobile-first website isn’t a bad idea for restaurateurs. The key to success is ensuring your restaurant’s website is discoverable not only to humans but to search spiders crawling the web.

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SEO Social Media Email Marketing Customer Experience 349

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

Experiment with design programs to create event announcement posters to use for your digital marketing initiatives. Share an insightful blog post or redirect members to your services. Combined with creative design, you can quickly gain your audience’s attention. Online Ads.

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Social Media Food Safety Cash Management Customer Service 539

Culinary Cues

APRIL 6, 2020

There are some who enjoy being alone, but most humans are inherently social by design. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Customers are your lifeblood.”. Andrew Zimmern. [] SOCIAL ISOLATION OF A NATURALLY SOCIAL POPULATION. This social isolation that we are engaged in will leave a tremendous void in people’s lives.

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Travel Back of House Customer Service Small Business 539

Wasserstrom

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But designing a successful LTO requires a strategic approach. Sensory Overload Humans are complex experience machines, and successful LTOs go […] The post LTO Development: Three Expert Approaches for Restaurants appeared first on The Official Wasserstrom Blog.

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Blog Customer Experience Design Management 130

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

How much effort is placed on the design of plated foods, the contrast and complement of colors, shapes, and assembly? Is your ventilation system designed to push positive kitchen odors to the dining room or outside the entrance? Yet, we often design restaurants with little or no consideration for acoustics.

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Fine Dining Dine-in Front of House Design 409