Culinary Cues

APRIL 14, 2025

He ran a restaurant in Tijuana where out of necessity one night, he put together the famous salad with the ingredients on hand. And, of course, the development of Eggs Benedict can be found in far too many bits of lore taking credit for this centerpiece of brunch and breakfast menus from coast to coast. Food for thought.

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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. The service robots operate at two levels of intelligence- from delivering food to taking care of consumer’s queries. Contactless Food Delivery- Robots Taking Over the Streets.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2021

Many successful brands take a different approach. They take the time to engage with their customers and take their opinions and suggestions on board. If your restaurant has a blog, consider adding author bios to your blog posts. Include Your Customers in Your Celebrations. Host Competitions and Contests.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In fact, its going to be a lot easier than you think, and there are steps you can take starting today that will give you real results by tomorrow. Optimize Your Website and Online Ordering Experience If your restaurants website isnt easy to use, youre probably losing out on online orders. Next, take a look at your menu.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

When we sign our work, we take full responsibility for it. “I Think about it for a moment – would you be willing to put yourself out there and take ownership for work that is less than stellar, less than the best you can do? Why not highlight them on your social media pages or in your restaurant blog.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Everybody needs to eat, so the sale of food will never go out of fashion. Still, because there are many competing businesses in the dining sector, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd. For example, check out how Pizza Express has enticed customers to dine with them with its free dough balls advert.

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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. Far too many times the menu takes a back seat to all other planning that will lead to serious miscalculations along the way. It is their business after all – right?

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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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Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

Those who are serious about holding the chef title some day; the ones who are “in it, to win it”, are always wondering what’s the best path to take. Remember that being “the chef” will take you away from much of the day-to-day cooking, the adrenaline rush, and the team excitement that drew you to the kitchen in the first place.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

Take the Flights restaurant , for example: Partnering up with the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce, Flights started ‘Feed the Need Bay Area’ to leverage accounting support and marketing talent so that they could support the Bay Area community. Take every initiative you can to disinfect and sanitize your restaurant.

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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. Take a step back and give them their due; you are part of a team. [] BE THE EXAMPLE How do you want your employees to act, represent, perform, and connect?

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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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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

Bigger is less predictable and much more difficult to control and bigger takes cooks and chefs away from what they love to do, what attracted them to the trade in the beginning – to cook from the heart. Instead of thirty-gallon trash cans spread out through the kitchen, there were two much smaller cans, a recycling bin, and tubs for compost.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

There’s a reactionary movement that I keep seeing in restaurants; a movement that assumes the answer to the restaurant bottom line is to take more and give less or give too much to justify raising prices. A menu should thus be designed and priced to make those items seem essential. There is no logical reason for a pound of meat.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2022

Well, keep reading this article to find out exactly how to incorporate images into your promotional emails. So make sure you either hire a professional photographer or use a high-quality in-house photographer to take pictures of your dishes. JPEG: JPEGs are low quality, but are more compressed and take up less space.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2021

Sometimes the change curve can be mapped out allowing ample time to gear up with new skills, new products, new methods of production, and a laser focused marketing strategy, while on occasion, something environmental takes place that forces a more immediate response. Think about the technology sector as a prime example.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 6, 2020

You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all else. There are some who enjoy being alone, but most humans are inherently social by design. If a restaurant fails to set the stage for the question: “How does the chef bring out those incredible flavors in this dish?” Customers are your lifeblood.”.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2022

Consumers are now looking out for restaurants that provide a fully curated vegan meal that serves everything from starters to desserts. 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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2021

While there are clear benefits to an all-digital menu system, to get the most out them, you must first take a step back to re-examine what your menu means to you. If your operations are spread out geographically, or you’re trying to eke out a bit of efficiency, the answer may be Yes. Cuisine and Concept.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

It was a job and a paycheck, a signal that I wanted to take on some responsibility, and the beginning of a six-decade work ethic, but there were no pats on the back for a choice of careers. In some ways we have come a long way over the past sixty some odd years, and in other ways we haven’t budged an inch.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 28, 2021

You take time to sanitize your area, firmly place a cutting board on a damp towel to keep it from slipping, draw your knives across a wet stone while honing their edge, and quickly jotting down a prep list for the next hour. You take a deep breath and smile knowing that this is where you belong, this will be a magical day.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In other words – patience and persistence – it takes time to build the skills and knowledge necessary to get to your destination. In all cases I would encourage you to take a step back, breathe deep, put down your knife, and check your enthusiasm for right now. This is where real cooking CAN take place.

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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

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. This is a call to arms – a call to those who can take on the role that they should.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Starting out as a whole grain diet for radicals, vegan food culture has evolved into Michelin star worthy mega trend for future chefs and culinary experts. With increasing promotions in restaurant magazines, food blogs, and social media platforms, more people are expected to join this mega-trend.

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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. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. STUBORN ADHERENCE TO THE WAY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN DONE.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 26, 2024

If you are anything like me, the anticipation of a really good restaurant experience is at the top of my list when traveling, or just taking a break from cooking at home. This is a call out to all who make, sell, and earn a living through food to self-assess and ask a basic few questions: 1. It really hurts me to say this.

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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. While these local favorites are great at attracting their neighbors to visit again and again, to out-of-towners, they’re just another restaurant that looks like it could do with some renovations. So, where do you start? Need a napkin?

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EATER

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Pairing a cookbook with a few carefully selected tools or specialty ingredients takes the gift to the next level, adding a personal touch and practical elements that help bring the recipes to life (and possibly convince less adventurous cooks that the book belongs in the kitchen instead of on a coffee table gathering dust).

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ChowNow

JANUARY 22, 2021

In this blog, we cover five simple tips for promoting your custom restaurant app. Your restaurant app can stand out from the pack by offering an enticing promotion. Send out an email to announce either your app-only promotion or the launch of your new app. You can use a service like Mailchimp to send out promotional emails.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Just because you are listed on a schedule as a cook does not necessarily mean that you are adept at filling every position under that designation. call from the restaurant stating that the breakfast cook called out or didn’t show. The more steps that a cook takes the greater the opportunity for mistakes.

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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. This was (is) the design of classic coffee houses, speakeasys, and corner cafes for generations. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 3, 2021

“Never again in our careers will we be able to take the boat out of water and put it in dry dock for a year to inspect every inch of its underbelly and make it seaworthy again,” “We want to make sure when we put the boat back in the water, it’s a sounder boat and does business in a better way.”

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 19, 2020

But we don’t often take the time to stop and pay attention to the intellect of the cook and the broader skills that few careers can boast. Unfortunately, it is rare to hear of anyone pointing out these essential abilities or the need for them if one is to be effective in the job. www.mindtools.com. [] HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGIE.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine surveyed marketing experts to find out the best ways restaurants can market themselves now. Extra side, desert, take-home dressing, etc. Restaurants should advertise what precautions they're taking to keep people safe. Here are their insights. Impressions are everything.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 14, 2023

Interestingly, it goes even further because if you take this approach, you quickly understand you can always do that task better tomorrow. If you are just starting out as a dishwasher, then seek to become a world-class dishwasher. So, the mantra sets the stage for the drive to constantly improve. People will notice.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Push it out, how many covers, lock, and load, finish strong, over the hump, wrap it up: this the language of the kitchen during service, these are the timestamps like the number of quarters in a football game or innings in baseball. Give your cooks a chance, now and then, to dine out front.

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