Culinary Cues

AUGUST 14, 2020

Growth seems to be one of those markers that define a successful business, yet there is ample evidence that growth can be a deterrent to success. It’s true of great restaurants, great retail stores, great investment firms, exceptional banks, small auto dealerships, and even local government offices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 30, 2021

The pandemic has ravaged many businesses in the country and few industries were hit as hard as the restaurant industry. So it makes good business sense to revamp your marketing strategies. The Pandemic and the Restaurant Business. Thousands upon thousands of restaurants were forced to close for safety reasons, some permanently.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

You can also reach out to other local businesses or organizations to provide further context to search engines about your restaurant’s location. Collaborate with nearby businesses for events or promotions, and ask them to include a link to your website on their site. It's an active marketing tool. It's an active marketing tool.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Our mission is to bring you the most objective and accurate information about technology for restaurant and hospitality businesses. On the 7shifts blog, we make it our duty to provide our readers with a relevant, trusted, and useful source for restaurant employees and managers to succeed in their goals. What sets us apart.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 19, 2020

Food bloggers and influencers are modern-day critics that can wield enough persuasive power to make or break a hospitality business. Any restaurant or F&B business can leverage this form of marketing to their benefit, it just requires a little know-how in the realm of digital networking. offer a gift voucher of $100).

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 7, 2021

A small step, but one that signifies that if we put our heads together there is a way, or many ways, to move beyond, over, or around those challenges. Possible causes: – People have heard how demanding and unforgiving the business can be. So, first step – let’s refer to it as a challenge. Why is this the case?

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2023

My town leaders, bless their hearts, try to figure out ways to strum up cash flow for small businesses. If you are not in the restaurant business, then maybe this sounds reasonable. This is who we are, we are in the service business. A tip of the chef’s toque for the good old college try. We would love that.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

A chef/owner was busy by the stove with an assistant who also washed dishes and bussed tables and out front a single server and maybe, in the busiest of operations, a host/bartender who was likely the spouse of the chef. This business was a reflection of the person, and the person was not a slave to a much larger, more complex beast.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Setting aside the fact that giant character costumes may occasionally make small children cry from fear, on the whole it’s a fun way to appeal to the family demographic and make the brand personality even more clear. This is true for any type of business, but especially for restaurants. Start a Food Blog.

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Indoor Media

JUNE 17, 2020

Every small business is unique. While we are a bit biased and believe our advertising is the first, best way to advertise for all small businesses, we also believe that every business owner should explore the best way to advertise for themselves. Step 2: Identify Your Business Objective.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

” The experts at Parts Town authored a blog post for independent restaurants about how to transition toward delivery. " "As a small business owner these unprecedented times are very overwhelming," said Rick Fernandez, owner of 3N1 Sports Bar & Grill in San Diego. "Cox

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 30, 2020

Low profitability, vendor challenges, rising cost of goods, cumbersome regulations, high rents, expensive marketing, and ebbs and flows of business volume have collectively made this enticing business to enter – nearly impossible to maintain. “We What can we do to prepare for a brighter future in the restaurant business?

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Indoor Media

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The warm weather meant a great boom for many restaurants and businesses, and outdoor dining helped a semblance of normalcy return to their sales. With chaos in the air, business owners have to get creative — and we’re here to help. When an opportunity presents itself, submit a description of your business and your newsworthy story.

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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 food processing industry has been a little slow in incorporating industrial robots as the industry mostly consists of small and medium enterprises.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 6, 2020

Although our current crisis has brought the restaurant industry to a halt, it is important to remember just how integrated the business of selling and serving food is to society as a whole. This is a very important part of the restaurant business – hospitality. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. You need to take care of people.

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Sling

MARCH 26, 2022

It can also cause ripples throughout your business as a whole. You can avoid this negative impact by making employee retention a cornerstone of your business strategy. Do they exhibit the same ethics that you prize in your business? Some team members may wonder if their job is on the line. Are they extroverted or introverted ?

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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. Zoom became our office (for many businesses – not all) and suddenly we had a way to function, at least at some level. How will we work if we can’t interact?” Let’s find ways to work remotely”.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 3, 2021

Down the street – a cadre of small independent restaurants with smaller staff requirements and tasty rustic menus would have been profitable except rents on their space had gone through the roof ever since this high end, 8-course menu, mecca restaurant opened its doors. www.harvestamericacues.com – BLOG. Magazine: [link].

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 3, 2023

I have long embraced this philosophy when it comes to restaurants, but it also can apply to any business. Customers would like up, sometimes around the block, hoping for a seat in her rather small restaurant where she featured, what we called – blue plate specials. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. _Danny Meyer.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 3, 2020

Passion is not blind forever. [] THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS IS EVEN HARDER THAN WE THOUGHT: The pandemic has demonstrated to owners/operators just how very fragile their business is. Obviously, revenue is critical to any business, but most others have the capacity to ride a storm for a period of time. Restaurant Consulting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Claim Your Google My Business Listing. One of the first things to do when you want to improve your online presence locally is to create a Google My Business listing. To do this, nothing could be easier: just go to the Google My Business website and create your account. Your schedule. Title SEO and Meta Description.

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Sling

APRIL 19, 2021

As a small business owner or manager, you need to speak the language of your industry. That includes general business terms , such as capital, gross, net, and — perhaps most important — profit margin. In business , margins are usually expressed as a percentage. That’s called a loss and is the direct opposite of profit.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

2020 brought plenty of obstacles, and many business lessons along with them. As businesses begin to plan their strategy for 2021, they’ll need to leverage as many marketing and PR trends that they can to better raise paid and organic brand awareness. Here are our recommendations: Utilize the Right Social Media Influencers.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Look around you – identify the companies, businesses, or individuals whom you admire – you know, the ones that seem to win a lot and fit into that category of “successful”. Even more important – these are the companies, businesses, or individuals that seem to enjoy what they are all about. It is your job to SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Here are some that have, in the past, been posted on my office door when I was a chef and later as an educator. They continue to be a resource for me when I need a boost and hopefully may serve you as well. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 1, 2020

We hear of major restaurant companies that struggle, but pay far less attention to the small business, the independent restaurant that represents the largest segment of the industry and the most fragile. That independent operator measures their ability to survive in terms of a few weeks without sufficient business revenue.

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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. It is their business after all – right? www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Owners have a tough time staying out of the menu planning process. CAFÉ Talks Podcast.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 8, 2020

First – we (all of us who have made the restaurant business our life calling) hope that you will bring your skills, passion, and commitment back to the food business and will work diligently to help make us better. This has been at the core of the restaurant business forever. If not, I guarantee that you will.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2020

Whether it is the environment, the postal service, senior citizens, global partnerships, healthcare, or restaurants – there is a tendency to set aside or forget just how important these businesses, global responsibilities, and people truly are to our existence. Restaurants are more than places where we can fill our stomachs – so much more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

Though expecting business as usual to be ‘usual’ is a little far fetched, many restaurants are opting for innovative ways to counter the virus – some even becoming part of the solution. Here’s a quick checklist to help you make safe choices while ensuring business continuity: Redesign Your Offerings.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 10, 2021

These may be traits that come naturally to the best restaurateurs, but they can also learn some valuable habits to help them efficiently and effectively run a business and meet their goals. A successful business plan covers everything from the food you’ll serve to how your restaurant will look and how you want your customers to feel.

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

MAY 18, 2020

If you’re in the middle of a low period, you compete for the small target audience of customers with all other businesses in the region. Making special offers is one of the classic hospitality training tips that works for any type of business. But, if the most successful hospitality businesses invest more in marketing campaigns.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 3, 2024

Are you serious about cooking, creating, coaching a team, and contributing to the success of a business? Be excellent at every task no matter how large or small. [] TRACK YOUR EXPERIENCES You experienced it – write it down. Are you hungry enough to do what you need to do, to build a plan and stick with it? Am I following my roadmap?”

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Culinary Cues

MAY 12, 2022

OK, I have been involved in the restaurant business for more than 50 years – I hear what you are saying, but I pose the question again: “Is this meal really worth $100 (or more)?” www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Search through the more than 700 articles on the business of food. Doesn’t it eventually come down to this?

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I am optimistic in the ability of the restaurant business to recover and shine, to bring people together once again, to return to a position of central to the life of neighborhoods, and optimistic that this business of food will provide wonderful careers for cooks, chefs, service staff, bartenders, managers and owners – THIS WILL HAPPEN.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These are your friends and neighbors; they are cornerstone businesses that support local little league teams, charities, and causes that unite the people around you. They are the businesses that provide gainful employment for all age groups, and in some cases – those jobs for youngsters entering the workforce for the first time.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 28, 2022

There are the emotional scars from that small percentage of guests who fail to treat the staff with any level of respect, the demands of timing, the challenges in upselling, and the struggle to always keep a smile on their face. A small step, but a giant leap for any restaurant. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Give it a try!

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