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? What is Niche Marketing? How to Choose a Niche.

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Marketing Food Truck Fine Dining Fast Casual 492

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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Fine Dining Back of House Front of House Food Order 520

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Restaurants survive and thrive on the “early and late majority” that represents over 60 percent of the dining population. I can vividly remember a chef position at a fine dining operation that I walked into and faced planning my first signature menu. That is in our DNA, we can’t really help ourselves.

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Fine Dining Café Customer Experience Menu 520

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

It is important to always keep in mind that dining out is still a luxury, even though more and more families have built it into their lifestyle. Whether a quick service restaurant, family dining, food truck, or white tablecloth fine dining operation – there will always be some level of price sensitivity.

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Fine Dining Back of House Food Truck Pricing 449

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The aroma of a simmering veal stock, pans of bacon being pulled from the oven, fresh coffee brewing and pastries hot from the bake shop meld together like a cacophony of sound produced by a finely tuned orchestra. Cooks are busy at work with their own preparations as breakfast orders from the dining room arrive at a harrowing pace.

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Kitchen Safety Front of House Fine Dining Back of House 473

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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Seasonal Menu Beverage Sustainability Fine Dining 508

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

How you play the game in the process of winning is critical, as is the sportsmanship that allows people to get past defeat with honor and grace while taking the time to positively recognize those who administered that defeat. Well-run organizations – in this case a kitchen, are built to win. This is what great organizations and great teams do.

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Fine Dining Coaching Dine-in Café 450

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

If your customers expect you to offer a fine dining experience, they won’t be pleased to know that you’ve upturned your entire restaurant. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic persists across the globe, governments have started easing lockdown restrictions and allowing restaurants to reopen finally. Protect Your Employees.

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Social Media Food Safety Cash Management Kitchen Safety 539

Culinary Cues

APRIL 23, 2023

Fine, that may be the case but let’s just see. I’ve been cooking for 15years now; I should be the chef.” If it’s your time and you’re ready then make it happen, find your spot, push for the job, step up and show them what you’ve got. If you think the answer is YES, then you are not ready to be the chef.

Seasonal Menu 520

Seasonal Menu Leadership Training Fine Dining 520

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. It all matters – education level, income bracket, age range, frequency of dining, and food and wine preferences. [] KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO BE AND HOW YOU WANT TO BE PERCEIVED. Don’t try to be something that you are not.

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Fine Dining Front of House Customer Service Customer Experience 449

Culinary Cues

JUNE 26, 2021

Are auto manufacturers fine with poorly designed assembly lines? Are hospital administrators fine with operating rooms that are not quite right? Are operators of meat packing plants fine with inefficient cutting lines? In what other industry are developers inclined to accept built in problems with design?

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Design Fine Dining Uniforms Waste 446

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

How powerful is a complete dining experience and what exactly is it? An owner for whom I worked years ago referred to it as the Total Dining Experience and I have held on to this concept ever since. Is your ventilation system designed to push positive kitchen odors to the dining room or outside the entrance?

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Fine Dining Dine-in Front of House Design 409

Culinary Cues

MAY 18, 2020

Whatever your end goal might be: Executive Chef in a fine dining operation, Corporate Chef, Sous Chef, Restaurant Manager, Entrepreneur, Research Chef, or Consultant – where ever you hope to land in the future – put that goal in writing. The restaurant industry is being hit extraordinarily hard, unlike any other time in recent history.

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White Paper Certification Food Safety Food Supply 520

Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

It’s a disease that seems to creep into the mainstream; a disease that can be kept in check if there is a desire to do so; a disease, in other words, within our ability to thwart. This disease is highly contagious without concern for age, gender, socio-economic status, education level, or factors related to a person’s focus on a healthy lifestyle.

Leadership 472

Leadership Food Truck Employee Relations Training 472

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Which type of tomato will present the most pronounced flavor of fine ripened, deeply refreshing acid/sweet balance on the sandwich and how can we ensure this consistently throughout the year? It would be difficult to find a more sinister, demoralizing, harmful, or self-destructive word than mediocre.

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Uniforms Fine Dining Small Business Customer Service 450

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 23, 2021

In the restaurant business there are really only two ways to view profit: a very small amount of profit balanced by very significant volume, or a significant amount of profit on far less volume. How you approach the design of your restaurant in this regard will determine nearly everything else. So what is contribution margin?

Point of Sale 450

Point of Sale Front of House Back of House Customer Experience 450

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Long before the restaurant chains of today, decades prior to the birth of fine dining, experience dining, and molecular gastronomy, there were neighborhood cafes that were part of small communities across the country. Ah, but the food and conversation were consistently good, plentiful, and in-expensive.

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White Paper Hospitality Fine Dining Reference 411

Culinary Cues

JUNE 14, 2022

fell in the category of “fine dining”. Now I mention these statistics because they will help to frame what the future may hold for the industry and those considering a career in kitchens and dining rooms across the country. Why would I choose to support a locally owned restaurant? 35 % of the overall male U.S.

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Fine Dining Food Supply Customer Service Presentation 474

Culinary Cues

APRIL 26, 2020

Having your chef walk through the dining room and connect with guests is a way to make customers feel special and provides an opportunity for them to ask serious questions about the menu. There is so much to think about, so many decisions to make, and so much angst about what the future holds. Everything helps.

Guest Recovery 410

Guest Recovery Kitchen Safety Customer Service Food Safety 410

Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Everything else will come to you as you fine tune those skills and the knowledge to be exceptional at what you do. [] BE YOUR OWN WORST CRITIC: Don’t wait for someone else to critique your work – assess your performance and compare it to those benchmarks. So, here are some golden rules that will help you to move in the right direction.

Leadership 448

Leadership Fine Dining Workshop Training 448

Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It makes no difference if it is a 4-diamond restaurant offering fine dining, a quality pizza shop, a bakery, or a hospital foodservice – discipline, pride, and results are closely aligned. A well-run kitchen is not a free-form environment where every cook does his or her own thing or moves to the beat of his or her own drum.

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Uniforms Airlines Food Order Fine Dining 474

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Chef Marc Meneau was such a chef – a powerful personality who elevated the dining experience – a chef who lived excellence every day in his restaurant L’Esperance in Vezelay, France. The dining room was perfectly appointed with fresh flowers, the finest tabletop details, and magnificent views of the L’Esperance gardens.

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Fine Dining Back of House Dine-in Presentation 364

Culinary Cues

MAY 20, 2024

It’s been 89 years since Escoffier stood in front of a range for the last time, yet his presence is still felt by professional cooks and chefs. In every office where I sat over the past 30 some odd years, has hung this picture of the master craftsman, leader, and ambassador of proper cooking and kitchen organization.

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Hotels Front of House Fine Dining Back of House 341

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The good news is that restaurants are beginning to see an increase in sales as more and more customers return to in person dining in addition to their new habit of ordering for home delivery. There are a number of possible solutions, but not all of them positive. SKILL SET: A cook’s repertoire will need to expand.

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Compost Fine Dining Waste Café 474

Culinary Cues

MARCH 9, 2021

The garde manger must be conservative with portion sizes while affording the greatest impact on the dining experience. It is a fine line to walk – one that requires the planning of the menu to be such that all courses are designed to marry with others. This is the home of Garde Manger, or pantry, or simply – the cold kitchen.

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Presentation Fine Dining Seasonal Menu Design 449

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

Bigger isn’t always better. Bigger brings a significant upswing in headaches, unforeseen challenges, an inability to flex, and long-term costs. 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.

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Seating Front of House Back of House Cash Management 474

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We have predicted the demise of fine dining at least a dozen times in the past 25 years – is it really happening now? Americans are spending nearly 50% of their annual food budgets in restaurants and indications that this can continue to grow – is fine dining the right answer? Pretention is fading in popularity.

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Fine Dining Point of Sale Food Supply Education 410

Culinary Cues

MARCH 25, 2021

This desire is a spark of enthusiasm to accomplish goals, exceed expectations, know no barriers to entry, and reach for the stars. We possess this desire universally but experience has shown us that it can be pushed aside by parents, friends, supervisors, peers, and even by our own lack of confidence in potential outcomes.

Communication 450

Communication Coaching Fine Dining Influencer 450

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Chefs and cooks may avoid walking through those swinging doors into the dining room because they fear that vulnerability. Some who work in kitchens can distance themselves from the overwhelming responsibility of the cook or chef, but to others it is a heavy weight to carry. If this is not their norm, then pay attention.

Employee Relations 449

Employee Relations Training Take-out Fine Dining 449

7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

While you must follow the strict guidelines to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, that’s not to say you can’t take advantage of an empty restaurant to improve your knowledge of restaurant management, running a business, and creating a recipe for success when you eventually get back to business as usual. Published: 2009 ?? Goodreads: 4.09

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Book Management Management Restaurant Law 370

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It was a good night with two full turns of the dining room. Similar activity is taking place in the dining room as tablecloths are replaced and touched up, place settings aligned, glasses checked for water spots, chairs polished and carpets touched up, napkins are folded, and plants are misted.

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Fine Dining Uniforms Dine-in Food Order 468

Typsy

JUNE 6, 2021

Fine dining is an experience like no other. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic all but destroyed the fine dining industry. Because thousands of restaurants across the globe had to close or switch to carry-out menus for their customers, fine dining hasn’t been an option for the better part of a year.

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Fine Dining Blog Customer Experience Dine-in 88

Culinary Cues

JULY 27, 2022

Like a fine wine we are a blend of different flavors that through experience reflect a perfect mix – each flavor has a role to play and is introduced in the right proportion to create that signature. This is what makes us unique as cooks, this is what builds our signature that appears on a menu. So, where do those flavors come from?

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Influencer Fine Dining Travel Book 440

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Total system collapse in a kitchen is always a few steps away from fine-tuned orchestration. The host peeks her head in the kitchen and says: “the dining room just filled –hang on, here it comes!” It’s 5:15, 120 degrees in front of the battery of ranges, and sweat is pouring down every cook’s back, dripping off their foreheads.

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Fine Dining Dine-in Restaurant Law Take-out 407

Culinary Cues

MARCH 4, 2022

We read the articles and listen to chefs and restaurateurs desperate to fill positions of line cook, sous chef, chef, manager, etc. and quietly think to ourselves: “I could do that again.” How true it is. The often-used belief that working in a professional kitchen is a “young person’s game” is very true.

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Coaching Training Fine Dining Article 474

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Whether a fine-dining experience or your local taqueria – the cooks that stand out, the ones that are the reason why customers line up to buy their food, are the ones with well developed senses of taste, smell, touch, sight, and sound as they relate to what takes place in the kitchen. It’s an amazing process.

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Customer Experience Fine Dining Take-out Presentation 468

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

I have been impressed and disappointed in many from those exclusive fine dining establishments with food that should be admired for its beauty to greasy spoons with the best burgers you will ever find. There are, of course, restaurants and there are restaurants. They are all part of my passion for the preparation and service of food.

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Food Truck Customer Service Customer Experience Food Supply 449