Next Restaurants

JUNE 30, 2021

When opening a bar or restaurant, one of the first questions folks ask is “Where do get money for the business?” First of all, you need to determine the format and concept of your new restaurant, draw up a business plan, and budget startup costs and continuing costs. Choosing a Location for Your New Restaurant.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 5, 2020

From cloud-based POS systems to mobile apps designed to improve employee satisfaction and streamline scheduling, technology is bettering business and changing the landscape of restaurant management. Alcohol is a core revenue driver for any restaurant, earning around 20-25 percent of total sales across the country.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Suddenly, the restaurant world was able to loosen the grip of recognition that cost a fortune to earn and maintain and realize that when it comes down to it, it’s all about food excellence measured on taste and flavor as well as appropriate value. This should be your quest even if it takes a decade or so to get there.

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Restaurant Clicks

JANUARY 28, 2020

You’ve done months of work planning your restaurant, creating menus, hiring staff – it’s finally time for the grand opening of your restaurant! A restaurant grand opening is an exciting event, and a successful one can help start your restaurant off on the right foot. Start with a Soft Opening.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

You should be able to customize and build your restaurant tech stack the way you want. Let’s face it, each restaurant is unique and we’re here to make sure you get the tech-treatment you deserve. It’s 2024. That is, the way that best serves your guests, franchisees, and operating teams.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 2, 2023

Over the past few decades, the most admired seafood restaurant in the country and one of the greatest restaurants in the world has been Le Bernardin in New York City. This approach has won the restaurant international praise, four stars from the New York Times, three Michelin Stars, and a James Beard Award.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 26, 2020

While many American businesses have been impacted by COVID-19, the restaurant industry is among those hit hardest. In response, many restaurants adapted to shutdowns across the country by offering drive-through or curbside pick-up, allowing them to remain partially open and serve customers who were sheltering in place.

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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. In some cases, productivity improved, in many cases it went in the other direction, but at least we were open for business. So why not? So, be careful of the lure of greener grass.

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Future Food

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Food & Hospitality Restaurant Openings & a Taste of What Was 2020. There are stand out restaurants and bars that have opened across Australia with new and enticing food and beverage as well those who have traded through the ups and downs continuing to deliver excellent food and service. Gimlet at Cavendish House.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 27, 2023

One of the dilemmas restaurateurs’ face is the approach taken with the management and delivery of a restaurant concept and menu. To make it simple, the restaurant can choose to be either chef centric or restaurant centric. In a restaurant centric operation, the standards are what defines the restaurant.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 7, 2021

Identifying problems has never been a challenge in the restaurant industry – there are many. Let’s look for a moment at one of those problems (challenges) and apply these three steps: PROBLEM: The restaurant industry, universally, is having an impossible time trying to find competent, committed individuals to work in all positions.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 17, 2020

Opening a new restaurant is an enormous undertaking. Whether it’s your very first concept or your twentieth, restaurant startup costs and logistics can be overwhelming (to say the least). This is why branded, commission-free online ordering will be instrumental as you open your doors. . Get an app.

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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. Seniors tend to arrive right when the restaurant opens. The witching hours are also the money hours for a restaurant. Restaurant Consulting.

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Restaurant Clicks

JANUARY 9, 2020

Opening your own restaurant is an exciting business venture. Wanting to start a restaurant business and knowing how to open a restaurant are two different things, however. If you have a passion for food, food service, or bringing people together over a meal, the restaurant business might just be for you. .

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Culinary Cues

JULY 18, 2023

I came upon an old wooden box tucked away in my shop, decades of dust pushed aside I opened it to find a few rusty metal files, an old pair of scissors, some hinges from a door long ago discarded, and under it all my first French knife – a wonderful tool that I had been missing for maybe 40 years. She taught me a few basics and I was hooked.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 14, 2023

If you are opening a hot dog stand then commit to being the very best, knock your socks off, monumentally great, way over the top hot dog stand that anyone has ever seen before. Approach your station as if it were your restaurant. Why settle for “okay” when you can be “world-class”? Why would you want to strive for anything less?

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Culinary Cues

JULY 16, 2022

Whenever I visited New York City with students, or with family, Dick helped arrange for us to meet well known chefs and restaurateurs, visit, tour and dine in incredible benchmark restaurants, tour flagship hotels, and in some cases find kitchen space for our student culinary teams to prepare for competitions. Restaurant Consulting.

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Xtra Chef

MARCH 4, 2020

Jeronimo kept those lessons close to his heart as he opened The Goat in Philadelphia alongside Fergie Carey and Jim McNamara. The restaurant offers next-level interpretations of traditional favorites and comfort foods. That’s why I’m working so hard to make this restaurant a success.”. I know I’ve got one shot. One opportunity.

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RanceLab

MAY 21, 2019

The post Licences For Restaurants: A Compact List Of Permits To Open Your Dream Venture appeared first on Restaurant & Retail POS Software - Restaurant Management Software | Blog. What does a new restaurateur think about at the initial phase? He or she brainstorms into choosing the […].

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Those days in restaurants that were once recognized as a time to close and let traditions thrive are now some of the busiest business days of the year. It made perfect business sense to take advantage of this opportunity to boost a restaurants’ bottom line and fill a need expressed by restaurant guests. Why aren’t they open?

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Culinary Cues

MAY 3, 2023

It amazes me every time I visit a restaurant – the important things that we miss. Great bread IS ESSENTIAL in any level of restaurant experience. Back to the dilemma – every restaurant suffers from the same problem, so maybe bread needs to be the baseline concern for the restaurant community in your town or neighborhood.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 4, 2021

If we can just get past the vaccine hesitancy then the country, and the restaurant industry might be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The other elephant in the room however is how will the restaurant industry approach business if we reach herd immunity through vaccination? Well, this is what we hope.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 25, 2023

Opening the pack, I used a tweezers to pick one tiny seed and asked the cook to hold out his hand. In that moment I realized my job as a chef was more than operating a restaurant kitchen, more than ensuring consistently great food on every plate, and much more than training cooks about technique. I wondered if I could live up to that.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 9, 2024

You thought you were good, a solid line cook or prep cook, a couple years of experience under your belt working in a busy restaurant. So, you applied for a job at one of the best restaurants in town, a place admired by all. You were on fire and felt confident that you would be a star in any operation. You will get there. Embrace it.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 3, 2021

The hope was that by doing more, working harder and longer, making more complicated menus, and pushing the envelope of creativity the restaurant industry would rise up to new levels of success. These small restaurant operators opened and closed their doors at an alarming rate simply because they couldn’t afford the space.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

With more than one million restaurants in the US we can flip a coin and hope for the great, will likely step through the doors of good, and far too often settle into the mediocre. So, just in case the information is not well known to some – here is the BEST OF Restaurant 101, a good start. [] START WITH KNOWING THE MARKET.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Every year, a significant number of new restaurants open and almost as many close their doors for good. It is, that spark of “I have a great idea for a restaurant” that drives many people towards the leap into entrepreneurship – a leap that too many are unprepared for. It pains me to see any restaurant close.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 4, 2021

So, here we are facing overnight demand (it’s like everyone turned on the open switch at the same time) that exceeds supply and our ability to deliver. On top of this – restaurants are offering wages that were unheard of pre-pandemic and still employees are not inclined to return to kitchens and dining rooms.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2023

The restaurant business is sometimes like the canary in the coal mine and at other times like the father of teenage children – the last to know. Most of the problems in restaurants were there before but not so vivid, not so “in your face”. ‘The times they are a changin’, proclaimed Bob Dylan in 1964.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 2, 2020

If you are a chef or restaurant owner I would like you to begin today with a significant question: “If I had to build this restaurant concept all over again, knowing what I know now, what would it look like – how would it be different? When you ask them to participate – make it clear that you are open to any and all ideas and critique.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 19, 2023

Many, saw restaurants and taverns to be American while exposing others to their food, beverage, and style of hospitality. Restaurants and bars portraying these influences began to pop up first on the east coast and gradually moving westward. Restaurants have always been there as an oasis for people when times are tough.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This was a tradition of early holiday shopping, hoping to beat the maddening crowds that typically flood shopping districts and restaurants this time of year. The stores were empty, and restaurant service staff were staring out windows from the vantage of unfilled seats. The community needs to create multiple reasons to be present.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 23, 2021

We can easily apply Dickens profound human summary to the state of the restaurant industry today. Without a doubt, many would paint a bleak picture of troubled times for the restaurant segment. The restaurant industry has been keeping its wounds under wraps for decades, but the pandemic brought everything to an abrupt stop.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 29, 2024

Change will happen, in fact it already is, but as we all known – change is not something that is embraced with open arms. Certainly, the restaurant and the chef have a responsibility to train, but the individual cook can take that training to a new level if they are willing to seek out every opportunity to learn and grow.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 10, 2023

To some it may simply seem like the squeaky wheel syndrome (a handful of people with loud voices) as dialogue about exodus from the restaurant business continues to raise eyebrows. There are, unfortunately some restaurants who fit the accusations. To some degree it is a result of perceptions left unchecked, but not in every case.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 26, 2023

So here is the fascinating thing about the industry of food: there is plenty of room for each one of these categories and most businesses will welcome each with open arms. There are tens of thousands of very good restaurants, cafes, and trattorias that produce delicious food and comfortable service without that 100% all-in commitment.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

Are you thinking about owning a restaurant? You are not alone if the thought of putting your name on a restaurant awning has crossed your mind. One of the most tempting forays into entrepreneurship is the restaurant business. Instead, let’s look at some of the common reasons why restaurants fail (this is only a sampling).

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