Culinary Cues

MAY 5, 2021

TRAINING AND DELEGATION: Yes, the hospitality industry has plenty of responsibility for this situation that can only be resolved through teaching and training managers and chefs to be more efficient with their time, able to discover how to prioritize their tasks and learn when and how some of this work can trickle down to other staff members.

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 21, 2020

Tailor your hiring and recruiting practices. The first step in reducing high turnover is to examine your hiring and recruiting practices. How are you communicating with your potential new hires? There are many moving parts to hiring and recruiting. Design an employee onboarding process. ServSafe Certifications.

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Clover - Restaurants

APRIL 25, 2024

Since restaurant staff typically can’t afford the time and effort to dig through a recipe box during the evening rush, the design and storage of your recipe cards is critical to running an efficient kitchen. To serve as training: Using detailed recipe cards help new hires avoid making errors and gain confidence more quickly.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 22, 2023

They hire and train the most dedicated professionals to execute the plan, and they are always focused on the details. They work to find the best purveyors of ingredients, develop relationships with farmers, ranchers, fishermen, and cheesemakers to stock their shelves with the right raw materials.

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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. Showcase your core values in your employee handbook, in new-hire training, on your company careers page. The Solution: Create a training program. Lack of recognition.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 15, 2021

The businesses that will hire your students need to be vested in your effort – this is how success is defined. If you teach in a live restaurant environment on your campus is it operated with five times as many cooks in training as would be possible in a real restaurant? PLAN BETTER –TRAIN HARDER. LACK OF REALISM.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

PLAN BETTER -TRAIN HARDER. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Could it be time for the restaurant business to slow down and serve their neighborhoods without having to support something so large and so fragile. Support your small local restaurants – we need them. Harvest America Ventures, LLC. CAFÉ Talks podcast.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2021

With the increasing relevance of social media as the primary method of getting a restaurants message out – chefs who are social media savvy (astute at using Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, YouTube, and Twitter) will be at the top of the “hire” list for prominent restaurants. [] TEACHING/TRAINING. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Restaurant Engine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Hiring good staff is integral to your overall customer dining experience. With more than two and a quarter million waitstaff in the United States, competition is fierce, and hiring just the right team members can be crucial to your restaurant’s success. This is why hiring correctly and for longevity is crucial for your restaurant.

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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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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. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Why should it be any different for restaurants and their menus? Harvest America Ventures, LLC.

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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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Clover - Restaurants

MAY 14, 2024

You can determine how much you need to open a restaurant in California by factoring these types of costs: down payment or lease for your space, remodeling, permits and licenses, equipment and furniture, POS system, branding and marketing, and staff training. This guide on how to open a restaurant on a budget can help.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Most menus were not designed with takeout in mind. Keep temperatures together —this may mean many bags or even packaging burgers separate from toppings For even more tips and tricks for takeout packaging, check out the MrTakeoutBags blog. The first is hiring your own drivers. Should I hire my own drivers?

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Embrace the Suck

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Read books and blogs. Hire a business coach (okay that was a little self-promotion…LOL). Checklists were designed to help us run a more effective business and yet they become just an eyesore sitting dormant on the walls of many restaurants. Mistake #6: They have an outdated hiring system (or worse) they panic hire.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 3, 2020

Make sure that every employee is properly trained and on-board with the importance of this process. If it is any consolation – numerous other industries will take time to recover to business levels of 2019 – so they will be slow to hire. The pool of potential employees will be substantial and so will be the need for training.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 2, 2020

This is a time to train yourself to breathe and think more clearly. Every chef understands that the success of a restaurant is in the hands of the team that he or she is able to put together, train, and support. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. None of this should be a surprise – plan for it.

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Clover - Restaurants

MAY 21, 2024

We’ve already covered restaurant marketing strategies in depth on our blog, but here are a few quick tips to help you net travelers’ business: Build out your website with helpful information about your business’s concept, hours, and parking/transit options. Clover offers a suite of tools designed to help restaurants thrive.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 26, 2020

It is difficult to argue with safety precautions designed to keep people well and thwart the spread of the virus. As we ideate our way to a new business model it is important to remember that hiring passionate, creative, dynamic, excited employees will always be the way to success. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. CAFÉ Talks Podcast.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

This means that those who choose to be restaurateurs need to design menus and concepts that address the needs and desires of potential customers, not simply stroke their own ego. The minute the restaurant becomes a vehicle for a chef’s self-expression is the minute that begins to stress the system and drive the train in the wrong direction.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications. These increasingly popular restaurant employee classes and programs supplement traditional training and equip employees with extensive taste profiling for different types of food and cuisine in addition to beer, wine, and spirit tasting. Cross-contamination. Undercooking.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 23, 2021

How you approach the design of your restaurant in this regard will determine nearly everything else. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. In the end, creating compelling reasons for guests to patronize your restaurant is complex, but it can be narrowed down to building value. Create Value Experiences.

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The Restaurant Group

APRIL 13, 2023

On the other hand, a consultant only hired for this particular stage will oversee tasks like concept finalizing, business plan creation, etc. Some restaurants may also hire a consultant to conduct the location research for them based on the business plan. A consultant can help you build the right one with the necessary skills.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 15, 2022

Check out this blog and video on the top 9 interview questions to ask as an owner. We've also included a roundup of interview best practices you should be aware of before showing up to speak to the hiring manager. A hiring manager wants to know how you handle a very real, stressful part of the job. Why should we hire you?

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Restaurant365

MAY 7, 2020

Ensure proper training for food employees with new or altered duties and require that they apply the training according to established procedures. Staff Health, Hygiene and Training. Train all employees on appropriate cleaning and disinfection, hand hygiene, and respiratory etiquette. Access a copy of the U.S.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 7, 2020

A restaurant employee app , designed to streamline staff schedules and keep employees motivated and engaged. Tips for Hiring Millennials. Keeping these values in mind can help you have productive conversations with potential hires and new team members. Refine your hiring funnel. Understand what motivates millennials.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They're not slogans which are designed to grab attention. Sublime Brew offers genuine coffee experiences by providing guided tours of their roastery and an online resource, in the form of ebooks and blog posts about coffee, to satisfy Jane's desire (and people like Jane) to learn more about coffee. It's an experience.

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The Restaurant Group

APRIL 21, 2024

This is why many successful restaurateurs hire business consulting firms to help them get started and create a blueprint for their success and profitability. Launching a business in a highly competitive industry like food and beverage (F&B) requires a deep and extensive understanding of the factors that fuel success.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The chef may write the songs, or design the menus, but it is the line cook who makes it happen, who pulls together the chef’s thoughts and executes a dish in a consistent manner, hundreds of times each week. This is one of the primary reasons why bands in the 1960’s and 70’s hired Nicki Hopkins to play keyboards on their records.

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 19, 2020

Tailor your hiring and recruiting practices. The first step in reducing high turnover is to examine your hiring and recruiting practices. How are you communicating with your potential new hires? There are many moving parts to hiring and recruiting. Design an employee onboarding process. ServSafe Certifications.

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Restaurant Law Recruiting Employee Relations Food Safety 131

Lavu

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

What will inspire the brand, design elements, and atmosphere? Is it designed to attract families or an over-21 crowd? List media outlets in your area along with stories to pitch to nearby news stations, print publications, blogs, and social media influencers. What will make your business stand out from others?

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Indoor Media

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Building a Brand Through Online Blogging Today, all online content lives by the bible, that is ‘SEO Best Practices.’ SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and if you haven’t heard of this term, you’re not prepared to start blogging. For example, in www.indoormedia.com/blog , the slug is “/blog.”

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MBB Hospitality

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Hiring the right staff that has the skills and passion needed for this industry is crucial. Check out our guide: Restaurant Staffing: 9 Tips for Hiring the Right Staff: 1. Hiring experts agree that a single interview is not always enough to determine the eligibility of a candidate. Know Exactly Who You Are Looking for.

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Sling

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Onboarding isn’t just for new hires anymore — especially when you’re learning how to engage remote employees. For more tips on holding the best virtual meeting possible, check out this article from the Sling blog: Virtual Meeting: 6 Tips For Meeting With Your Team Remotely. 7) Offer Virtual Training.

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Restaurant365

MAY 10, 2022

Now, the speed at which you hire top restaurant talent can be the difference between landing those sought-after employees or losing them to the competition. Some operators might worry that hiring too quickly can lead to hasty decisions and choosing the wrong candidates but recruiting faster does not mean that you ignore your standards.

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Indoor Media

APRIL 5, 2018

Is there any way for him to design a great website with no skills, limited time, and a tight budget? . Your website is as important to the success of your business as the employees you hire and the product or service you offer. Website builders are the training wheels for self-designed websites. Freelance Web Designers.

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Future Food

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Design-Food-People – This trio of terms will merge to deliver living-spaces which embrace human feelings. Integration of these elements will shape the design briefs of 2020 and beyond. Design will focus heavily on people’s desire to slow-down, to be immersed into space and to feel welcome. Re-imagining Food & Beverage 9.

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