Culinary Cues

JANUARY 26, 2025

If you enjoy dining out, its time you gave some thought to what it takes to prepare and serve those items that give you pleasure on the plate. Immigration has been the hot topic in political circles for decades with polarized opinions about the breadth of the problem and both conservative and radical approaches debated. are immigrants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Consumers are prioritizing sustainability when it comes to dining choices, driving a trend for going green in the restaurant industry. Concerned about climate change and the environment, these consumers are increasingly spending their dining dollars with restaurants demonstrating sustainability initiatives.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Local SEO strategies, like targeting location-specific searches, will help your site show up when people look for nearby dining options on search engines. Local SEO strategies, like targeting location-specific searches, will help your site show up when people look for nearby dining options on search engines.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Respectable restaurants either bake their own or invest the time to find an exceptional resource for this essential ingredient in the dining experience. Before children speak, they sing, Before they write, they paint, As soon as they stand, they dance. Bacon is well served in nearly everything, but it reigns supreme at breakfast time.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Customers are becoming more discerning about value and anxious about the price of a meal (from quick service to fine dining). Theres plenty of fear and loathing going on in the restaurant business. Every restaurant and restaurateur are struggling to figure it out how am I going to make this work? This is true for every business.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 1, 2025

The same can be true for the quality of purchased meats and fresh fish, an expanded wine list, broader selection of regional beers, an upgrade to quality coffee and tea, or even improving the sound system in dining rooms. Can there be too much competition? However, the benefits of appropriate competition are quite pronounced.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 14, 2025

The dish was elevated to an entirely different level as the guest became the most important person in the dining room during the process. The story can make the dish but the dish absent the story is just another salad that can be found in fine dining or your local Greek diner. As is the case with Caesar Salad, the story sells.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

We are witnessing the evolution of fine dining. With increasing promotions in restaurant magazines, food blogs, and social media platforms, more people are expected to join this mega-trend. Astonishingly veganism is a chief enabler of this culinary transformation. Bn at an impressive 22 percent CAGR in 2022. percent in 2021.

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The Rail

JANUARY 21, 2025

Example : Yale's dining halls implemented AI-powered food monitoring systems to track discarded food and analyze compostable materials. By Bailey Ramsey, Contributor Food waste is a critical issue in the restaurant industry. To put this in perspective, restaurants waste anywhere between 4% to 10% of the food they purchase.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 22, 2025

It may be the skill or reputation of the chef that gives public relations power to a restaurant, but it is the cohesive nature of a team where each person contributes in their own way to the uniqueness of the operation and thus, creating its brand and how dining experiences come to life. Chef, I ran into that a few times in my career.

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ChowNow

MARCH 7, 2025

When people are hungry, they turn to Google. Its the number one way customers discover new restaurants and if your business isnt showing up in the search results, youre losing diners to competitors who are. In this article, you will learn: How to optimize your Google Business Profile to boost visibility and credibility.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The story made me think about what I did for a living and my zest for cooking delicious food, traveling to special parts of the world, working and dining in great restaurants, learning from exceptional chefs, enjoying incredible wines from the hands of vintners, harvesters, and wine makers. I remember how the book moved me.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2021

Thankfully, it’s never been easier to provide your customers with an engaging and educational dining experience than it is today, thanks to modern technology. For restaurants, this information could range from cooking, dining, and food preparation tips to local ingredient sourcing guides.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

– Heston Blumenthal Chefs must realize that as much as flavor, texture, and taste are important to the experience of dining, it is context that makes a meal truly memorable. These are your stories stories that make the difference between a good and a great meal and dining experience. Inspiration comes in many forms.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Whether you’re serving gourmet food in a fine dining establishment or flipping burgers next to the local university, there’s going to be an audience that works best for your business. Or are you a fine dining restaurant located on a wealthier side of town? By focusing on niche marketing , your restaurant will flourish.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2023

The dining room opens in 15 minutes and the adrenaline is starting to churn. At 5:30 the dining room doors open, and early bird diners begin to arrive. Cooks are now bouncing from foot-to-foot waiting for the chime of the printer as orders in the dining room are being taken by servers who put on a show face that projects calm.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Indeed, recent world events have put the kibosh on traditional dining, networking, and events which play a significant role in a company’s business development strategy. Additionally, contributing to your social media, blogs, and industry groups allows you to further build and develop relationships. Why public relations, you ask?

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 3, 2021

Menus became encyclopedic, the skills to execute these menus were over the top, the equipment that allowed for this level of creativity was space age and expensive, the intensity and stress in the kitchen was as heavy as lead, and the number of staff members required to execute this complexity was painful. Magazine: [link].

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 4, 2021

Registering on GMB is free and taking the time to do this pays off for restaurants by allowing Google to recommend an eatery to people searching for dining options in the area. Finding a restaurant today is typically accomplished by typing in search terms like “Italian restaurant near me.” Last year alone there were 6.9

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2021

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. Everybody needs to eat, so the sale of food will never go out of fashion.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 26, 2024

It was a poster in the employee dining room of a hotel that asked: “Would you be willing to sign your work?” NOT KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EATING AND DINING Eating is a process; dining is an experience. Fast food is process eating and will always fall short of dining. Ugh, frustration is setting in.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2024

This industry seeks to develop a value proposition that speaks to its consumers and convinces them to dine in their restaurants. Convenience: Simplified Dining Experiences Convenience is really what modern customers look for in a restaurant experience. But precisely, how can you determine what customers want?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Put simply, now that America is finally able to dine-in, there’s a frenzy on the business end to net as many customers as possible — but it’s easier said than done. In the digital age, restaurants must put some focus on digital media, too. Restaurateurs seeking to drive explosive traffic must employ explosive solutions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2020

Now that consumers have become more particular with dining, service standards have skyrocketed, and expectations are higher than ever before. When people decide to dine in your establishment, they don’t just want to eat good food; they want to have a pleasant experience, as well. Dining as a Personalized Experience.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The strict alignment to table stations, training, development of a wine list that complements the food menu, and the smooth oversight of intense chaos so that it seems to be controlled rests on the shoulders of the dining room or restaurant manager. Independence in a manufacturing model that defies logic.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Darker, richer colors work well for an upscale dining establishment, and bright, cheerful colors are ideal for a family restaurant. Start a Food Blog. Blogging can be hit and miss, but it’s proven to be a very effective way to market a business when done well. Accurate Brand Personality Representation.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 9, 2021

Wow visuals on the plate and in the dining room, wow views from every seat, wow service, and of course – wow flavors on the plate. Guests will return when the effort expended to create memorable complete dining experiences is front and center. The goal of every restaurant and every chef is to create memorable experiences for the guest.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Customers are going to be hesitant to dine indoors. That they can get coronavirus from someone sitting next to them while dining. Post a picture to Google My Business of “2020 Hours” Callers just want to know you’re open and what type of dining is available. That tables are too close.

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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. Try taking a few moments everyday walking around the kitchen and the dining room looking for successes and great work. However, you cannot succeed alone.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Cooks are busy at work with their own preparations as breakfast orders from the dining room arrive at a harrowing pace. The cooks are in the zone as the orders attack the kitchen even faster now as the dining room fills and servers’ line up to make toast and refill silver coffee pitchers. This is magical.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Your employees know that this is not the best way to start a dining experience. They can see the concern in your eyes over the certainty of failure when a full dining room is not allowed. We all know the challenges facing restaurants right now – there is little benefit in reiterating the problems. Ask your staff!

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 9, 2020

There are few things in life that vividly define the culture associated with a group of people more than dining out. Will the culture associated with dining out automatically return or will we need to re-learn what it means to break bread in public, raise a glass, and celebrate being alive?

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 16, 2025

People no longer view dining out as a necessity to support their lifestyle. But you might want to stop now and again and reflect on a time, not too long ago. Think back to March of 2020. Do you remember what it was like? Suddenly, nothing else mattered and the world came to a halt. What is the end game here? Hmmmnow Ive got you thinking.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2023

All good intentions – they want to create full or partially full dining rooms for restaurants in need. We want to make a respectable living, but there are few aspirations of wealth – our reward is feeling good about the product we produce, the service we offer, and the joy that can be passed on to those who chose to dine with us.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This is constant, unrelenting as the dining room moves from a few guests at 6:30 a.m. Unlike other line positions where there is a time allowance for preparation, pacing of courses, and the detail work that equates to a meticulously aligned plate presentation – the breakfast cook must be efficient and fast. The list goes on and on.

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Back of House Dine-in Restaurant Law Ordering 520

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 5, 2022

These platforms are gaining popularity among people who wish to dine with their families at home and still wish to enjoy the flavor and quality of restaurant food. In this blog, we will discuss the various facets being utilized to enhance the entire operation of the ghost kitchen efficiently.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2022

This has led fine-dine restaurants to change their existing food menus and offer completely plant-based food dishes. This has led fine-dine restaurants to change their existing food menus and offer completely plant-based food dishes. Veganism is no more a fad. It is here to sustain, grow and be accepted on a larger scale.

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