Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This may seem like a strange topic for a blog focused on the restaurant industry and the world of food but hear me out. A place where green lawns, flower gardens, friendly postal carriers, and safety were the standard. This is a real danger to not only those of us who work in the business of food but for society as a whole.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

They include PepsiCo, Uber Eats, Constellation Brands, Moët Hennessy USA, Robin Hood Foundation, Ecolab, Cargill, Boston Beer Company, Shift4 Payments, P&G Professional, Ventura Foods, United HealthCare, The Elliot Group, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and the Light Foundation.

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Hot Schedules

AUGUST 10, 2021

Protecting Your Customers: How to Scale Your Food Safety Culture Across Multiple Locations. While employees know they play a crucial role in food (and ultimately guest) safety, when a 45-minute wait forces everyone to rush, things learned in food safety training can quickly fall to back-of-mind to an undisciplined staff.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Of, course the food must be tasty and appealing at some level and above all else – consistent. How convenient you might ask: we barely need to slow down our cars and roll down the window when our food arrives – that’s convenience. Great food and drink and honest, sincere service can be the sunshine at the end of a not so terrific day.

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7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business. ?? Topics: Hospitality; hiring and training staff; building workplace culture. ?? Award-winning restaurateur Danny Meyer (Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Shake Shack) cooks up hospitality magic in his best-selling book, Setting the Table. Goodreads: 4.09

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

Co-founders Helen Patrikis and Steven Hall, two hospitality PR professionals, formed Dining Bonds, LLC with the goal of establishing it as a one-stop resource to raise revenue for the hospitality community. We can continue to show our support for the hospitality industry and the great, hardworking people it employs.

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ChowNow

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In this blog, we’ll cover four tips to help you boost customer loyalty at your restaurant. Chances are that many of your diners are taking pictures of your food and tagging both your account and location. You’re the hospitality expert, so you know best what your diners want. Start a restaurant loyalty program.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Food Service Skills For Your Resume. 5 Restaurant & Food Service Skills for Your Resume. Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications. Commercial kitchen equipment safety. Food allergies. Food Service, Kitchen, & Hospitality Tech. Cooking and Food Preparation.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

We started the Restaurant Growth Podcast in 2021 to provide a platform for the best and brightest minds in the restaurant and hospitality industry. Shawn is the host of not one but two podcasts— Digital Hospitality and Restaurant Influencers —and he stopped by ours to talk about creating a media brand out of your restaurant.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

According to a survey conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence, 40% of Americans are ordering more food for takeout and delivery now than they were before the pandemic. Food photography that makes your food look less than appetizing keeps customers away, whereas high-quality photography turns hungry website visitors into customers.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Hospitality Mindset – It’s All About The Customer. The Business of Food starts with thinking about hospitality – I call it a Consumer-First Approach. Food and hospitality spend across the globe is on the rise, with all sectors vying for the food-dollar.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Inventory management Managers need to ensure the kitchen is stocked with the right amount of food so that nothing is wasted and as few items need to be 86'ed as possible. This involves reading restaurant management blogs and news publications, taking relevant classes and courses, and attending industry events and trade shows.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2023

Cafés and Bistros should be able to dip into a cache of “extra” money to pay for the entrance fee and since it is thought that restaurants make significant profits from the food they sell, then those deep discounts will be easy to swallow. If you are not in the restaurant business, then maybe this sounds reasonable.

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Hot Schedules

AUGUST 10, 2021

Protecting Your Customers: How to Scale Your Food Safety Culture Across Multiple Locations. While employees know they play a crucial role in food (and ultimately guest) safety, when a 45-minute wait forces everyone to rush, things learned in food safety training can quickly fall to back-of-mind to an undisciplined staff.

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 21, 2020

Successful restaurant owners and operators don’t just provide great food. For food service and hospitality in particular, an essential part of the guest experience is the interaction with employees. Restaurant payroll is particularly challenging because hospitality employees may receive different kinds of compensation.

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Ken Burgin

MARCH 14, 2020

Hospitality training has usually been done in person – we hospo people like to ‘stand up and do it’. Offer in-demand training like Food Safety & Hygiene – it could be through your existing coursework that’s repurposed for online delivery, or making use of the many good online courses.

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Sling

AUGUST 30, 2021

At first glance, hospital marketing (or HM for short) may seem like a job reserved for hotels and resorts. In reality, hospitality marketing is essential for the success of all businesses that provide goods and services to the general public. What Is Hospitality Marketing? Why Is Hospitality Marketing Important?

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Cheetah

MAY 11, 2021

To comply with the requirements, make sure you abide by the Social Distancing Protocol and Health and Safety Plan checklists and post the appropriate signage ( required posters ). Local food producers and manufacturing facilities have been operating at reduced capacities and battling employee coronavirus outbreaks.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Hospitality Mindset - A sales & service maximiser approach (Part 2). In part one of this article, I spoke about the customer’s timeless desire and appreciation of quality food and service and how this is the platform from which to drive food and hospitality sales. Future Food. Francis Loughran – MD.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

Brands and The Habit, Chase and DoorDash, Waitr, Local Foods, C3 Signature, Pudu Tech, Southern Glazer's, Voodoo Doughnut, The Friendship Café and Digital Signage Expo. Local Foods Eyes Austin. Local Foods photos by Julie Soefer. The local farms, vendors, and amazing Austin vibe is a perfect fit for Local Foods.”

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 20, 2020

Now, the building is the home of The 1894 Lodge, a bar and restaurant with a unique, chef-driven menu loaded with comfort food. Once his restaurant was allowed to reopen for dine-in service, Logan took necessary precautions to ensure his staff’s, customers’, and community’s health and safety. They stayed together.”

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Inventory management Managers need to ensure the kitchen is stocked with the right amount of food so that nothing is wasted and as few items need to be 86'ed as possible. This involves reading restaurant management blogs and news publications, taking relevant classes and courses, and attending industry events and trade shows.

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PathSpot

APRIL 1, 2024

Within the hospitality industry, the emphasis on safety and compliance is the foundation for achieving business success. Hotels, with their intricate restaurant operations, make it crucial to ensure food safety protocols and compliance requirements.

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 19, 2020

Successful restaurant owners and operators don’t just provide great food. For food service and hospitality in particular, an essential part of the guest experience is the interaction with employees. Restaurant payroll is particularly challenging because hospitality employees may receive different kinds of compensation.

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Hot Schedules

APRIL 21, 2020

When asked what key takeaways she’d share with an independent restaurant owner facing similar challenges, she said: Safety first. They are helping us stay in business and we feel we are helping them by providing good tasting food and basic provisions safely at the most affordable price we can offer. Look at your menu. Click here !

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Hot Schedules

APRIL 10, 2020

Food safety refresher It’s never a bad time to take a food safety refresher course and maybe think about how you will adapt your procedures going forward. ServSafe is offering a free Food Handler course and some additional training for take-out and delivery best practices. Top Ten Restaurant Task List.

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Squirrel Systems

MARCH 8, 2024

This blog post will explore the current state of robotics in restaurants, examine its benefits and challenges, and speculate on how this technology might evolve. In some restaurants, robotic servers deliver food directly to the table, reducing wait times and improving efficiency. The post Are Robotics Really Coming to Hospitality?

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Focus POS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even before the pandemic, ghost kitchens had been all the buzz in the hospitality industry. . These locations offer more safety, but they come with a major price tag. Pizzeria delivery is up 44%, fast food restaurant delivery is up 64%, and delivery for fruits and veggie shops is up a whopping 160%. . Reduced Rent .

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The featured food items will be “Big Kahuna Burger,” “Loco Moco Fries,” “The Fat Luau," top photo and “The Fat Piña Shake." and four of the ten largest global food and beverage manufacturers rely on Green Rabbit to maximize the value of their digital food delivery initiatives.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 7, 2022

To ensure repeat visitors, it is vital that your staff is extending the same hospitality to outdoor patrons as they are to those dining indoors. During the colder months, people tend to crave comfort food that will warm them from the inside out. Put safety first. Streamline your operations. Create a winter menu.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 27, 2022

Restaurant operators have chosen to go digital to ensure customers’ health and safety as these touchless menus can help mitigate virus spread. In Hospitality Technology’s 2021 Customer Engagement Technology Study , it was found that 37% of diners prefer to dine at restaurants that do not have a paper/physical menu.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Others need an all-in-one platform that helps with every area of the hospitality business. If you’re trying to stay on top of industry news, the latest in technology , or food trends, you likely have a slew of websites and blogs you read on the regular. And it usually takes the form of apps on their iPhones.

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PathSpot

APRIL 26, 2024

Cleanliness and safety are top priorities in the food service and hospitality industry. Cutting-edge solutions such as PathSpot SafetySuite are essential for upholding cleanliness and safety standards. They ensure consistency, safety, and compliance with health regulations.

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Hot Schedules

DECEMBER 19, 2019

T he software and systems that serve today’s hospitality industry are constantly gathering data. Learn more about Data & Analytics for Hospitality. Health and safety. Or, to learn more about Data and Analytics in hospitality, download our free white paper. Drowning in Data? Integrated Analytics Can Be Your Lifeboat.

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The Restaurant Group

JULY 7, 2020

All this while still maintaining the warm, friendly atmosphere that operators in the hospitality industry are known for. How will restaurants shift their labor models to follow state safety regulations, ensure social distancing, minimize contact, and support the changing tide of guest preferences? Overwhelming? Transparency.

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The Restaurant Group

JANUARY 26, 2023

Commercial Kitchen Components A commercial kitchen design needs five components: Service area Cooking station Food preparation area Washing or cleaning station Storage area These sub-areas ensure smooth and successful kitchen operations. Involve your chef or food service department in this process. Let’s take a look.

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Future Food

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The topic of this blog is one that many will be glad to have personally overcome. We hardly had to break stride for the first few years of his life, as we continued with our pre-child lifestyle which revolved around exploring local food and hospitality options and eating out whenever possible. Rezz Hotel Adelaide.

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