Culinary Cues

APRIL 7, 2025

We (those who have invested decades in the business already) may complain about the current labor environment and question the level of commitment from a younger pool of candidates but I have rarely heard anyone attempt to define how it will all wash out. What is the projected profile of cooks and chefs moving forward.

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ChowNow

MARCH 7, 2025

Fortunately, you can take steps to improve your ranking and that first critical step is filling out your Google Business Profile. Nothing frustrates customers more than arriving at a restaurant only to find out its closed. Follow these steps: Stay calm and professional: Dont take it personally or argue.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Nowadays, running a successful restaurant takes more than great food and good service. If your website isn’t optimized for mobile, you could be losing out on potential customers. You can also reach out to other local businesses or organizations to provide further context to search engines about your restaurant’s location.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 19, 2020

Getting the right recommendation from an established influencer can propel your business into online stardom, following a rush of foot traffic from their followers who simply have to check out the latest hotspot in town. This blog has done a great job of teaching you how to spot fake followers to avoid getting scammed.

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Influencer Marketing Social Media Online Ordering 532

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Gifts, special meals, travel, and most importantly – family time consumes the next few weeks. Those of us who fit this description should take the time to think about those who are not so fortunate. When a local cop or firefighter drives down the street – take a moment to wave and shout out: “thanks”!

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2021

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

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Every restaurant and restaurateur are struggling to figure it out how am I going to make this work? Theres plenty of fear and loathing going on in the restaurant business. Where does this leave the restaurant experience and the societal role they have played for generations? Is this our future a place we want to be?

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 3, 2024

It may not look the same and they may have never written it down, but this is their method of operation. [] LOOK THE PART Take pride in your appearance and the sharpness of your uniform. Becoming GREAT takes serious dedication and lots of repetition. Seek out every opportunity to learn something new every day.

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Uniforms Point of Sale Coaching Small Business 434

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2021

Sometimes the change curve can be mapped out allowing ample time to gear up with new skills, new products, new methods of production, and a laser focused marketing strategy, while on occasion, something environmental takes place that forces a more immediate response. Think about the technology sector as a prime example.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 10, 2020

Take a Measured Approach. Maintaining your social media, SEO and blogging efforts represent the bare minimum needed to remain relevant in your customer’s eyes. Now is the time to pay more attention to your website, take advantage of the downtime your hotel may have to audit this too. But be ready, how will you stand out?

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Hospitality Marketing Social Media SEO 518

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

According to Mastercard’s “ Recovery Insights: The Shift to Digital ,” 59 percent of consumers say that eating in more than going out is a change that’s here to stay. Businesses can further enhance menus by highlighting bestselling items, supplying photos, and identifying menu items that don’t travel well.

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Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Customer Experience Online Ordering 508

Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2020

Let’s take restaurants as an example – one might assume that these businesses are a luxury since cooking at home is always a logical alternative. Let’s take a look: [] RESTAURANTS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE GROWTH OF SMALL TOWN AMERICA. Restaurants are more than places where we can fill our stomachs – so much more. million workers.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 9, 2021

We may complain about the guest who is taking loads of pictures of their food and posting them on Instagram, but deep inside we get a bit of a rush when it happens. These team members will go out of their way for the guest because you do so for them. Let them kick the tires and take the menu for a spin.

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Front of House Customer Experience Dine-in Training 474

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 26, 2024

If you are anything like me, the anticipation of a really good restaurant experience is at the top of my list when traveling, or just taking a break from cooking at home. This is a call out to all who make, sell, and earn a living through food to self-assess and ask a basic few questions: 1. It really hurts me to say this.

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Dine-in Training Seasonal Menu Sports 443

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

MAY 6, 2020

Long Island City-based JetBlue and United Airlines are offering free round-trip flights for medical volunteers traveling to New York City to join the frontline in the battle against COVID-19. The luxury hotel, where rooms typically top $1,000 a night, closed at the end of March and is not taking new bookings.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take the time to think about it: This is a profile of the restaurant business that gets lost in all the negative press. [] SECOND LARGEST EMPLOYER. What is travel, a hotel, or a center of entertainment without the provision of quality food? [] AN INDUSTRY THAT THRIVES ON TEAM ENVIRONMENTS. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG.

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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. Take a step back and give them their due; you are part of a team. [] BE THE EXAMPLE How do you want your employees to act, represent, perform, and connect?

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Coaching Restaurant Law Training Article 447

Culinary Cues

JULY 27, 2022

It is rare that all these influences are mapped out in advance – they simply happen, and along the way we sift through and categorize them as we search for the blend that will define our style and signature. Although we rarely map this out, we should open ourselves up to experiences and potential influences. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We can always find things to disagree with and people who frustrate us, but very little good ever comes out of this approach. Don’t wait for someone else to build your skills and knowledge – take charge of your own growth. Make sure your plan includes diet, exercise, free time, family time, travel, and relaxation.

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Leadership Fine Dining Workshop Training 448

Culinary Cues

APRIL 4, 2020

Once conditioned – a chef has a very difficult time breaking out of a routine. Your restaurant may be closed or maybe it has shifted to take-out and delivery only. Where do you begin, what direction should you take, what possible objectives can be put in place to move from uncertainty to a driving mission?

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Leadership Retail Training Take-out 447

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2022

Consumers are now looking out for restaurants that provide a fully curated vegan meal that serves everything from starters to desserts. Thus, in this blog, we discuss how restaurants are overhauling and redesigning their business models to attract vegan customers? According to Sentient Media, nearly 10 percent of the U.S. Pacific Time.

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Seasonal Menu Beverage Sustainability Fine Dining 508

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 1, 2019

I try, whenever I travel, to find those small, privately owned, interestingly unique bistros, trattorias, and cafes that are the soul of a community and the lifelong dream of a chef or restaurateur who views this as his or her mission – a chance to bare it all and sign every plate that leaves the kitchen. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG.

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Small Business Customer Experience Customer Service Seasonal Menu 489

Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

If the stakeholders in this important industry do not take the opportunity to learn from the lessons encountered, then a return to those exciting decades of growth and media glory will be difficult to envision. In recent years landlords have leveraged their lease power to eventually drive restaurants out of business.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 29, 2022

This is a direct message to all of those young cooks just starting out, dishwashers, culinary students, and seasoned veterans of the kitchen – you can go as far as you want to go in the food business as long as you are willing to put in the work, build a plan, and stick to the plan. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG.

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Influencer Small Business Book Take-out 448

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is a topic I have presented numerous times and it seems as though whenever I travel it rises to the top of my thinking. Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. Find out everything you can about your guests and potential guests. It’s all about your people.

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Fine Dining Front of House Customer Service Customer Experience 449

EATER

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

What started as a blog in 2006 expanded its social media presence a decade later. I’d be awestruck by just how much information there was in one issue and how elegantly it was styled and laid out. Around that time, Christopher Byron came out with Martha Inc. , Whenever I travel to the U.S. The covers were extraordinary.

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7 Shifts

MAY 11, 2020

Now, after weeks of relying solely on takeout, delivery, and other business models to bring in revenue, restaurants are seeing some relief as regulations ease and business reopening plans rolling out across the country. Employees must report any symptoms and recent travel to their managers before a shift. Book a demo to learn more.

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BOH Food Safety FOH Equipment 368

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

If you are part of a working couple, managing a budget, paying for a mortgage, supporting two cars, and probably still paying off your student loans, then does going out to dinner make sense? If you are going to invest in “dinner out” then this is where you would prefer to spend your money. You want to support them.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

There’s a reactionary movement that I keep seeing in restaurants; a movement that assumes the answer to the restaurant bottom line is to take more and give less or give too much to justify raising prices. This is compounded when a restaurant doesn’t even take bread seriously. Help them out. Do it right!

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Fine Dining Back of House Food Truck Pricing 449

Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2023

Here are some thoughts. [] IT’S STILL ABOUT THE FOOD: People go out to eat for a variety of reasons – convenience, social interaction, a change of pace, business travel, vacations, celebration, or habit. Does it stand out as something in a class all to itself?” Plan better – train harder, takes on new meaning.

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Food Truck Back of House Education Training 386

Restaurant365

MARCH 3, 2022

According to Vacasa’s 2022 Spring Travel Trend’s survey, one thing is clear: everyone needs a break this spring. 37% are planning to travel during spring break, specifically, which is an increase from the 29% who were traveling for Spring Break 2021. American travelers are mostly staying planted on U.S. Fine dining – 41%.

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Travel Social Media Fast Casual Fine Dining 146

Goliath Consulting

APRIL 26, 2023

Whether traveling to the beach on a relaxing vacation or chilling out by the pool, cocktails and interactive drinks are what people will gravitate toward this summer. A fun way to cool off is to take a sip of some refreshing, cold cocktails that will help with the heat and add to the fun of summer.

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2023 Menu Travel Take-out 387

EATER

JULY 8, 2020

While there is no form of travel that’s perfectly safe right now, there are certainly more responsible options than others for scratching the itch. So, with safety top of mind, here are some alternative parks to consider for your 2020 summer escape, and, of course, the best places to eat — to go, dine-in, or dine-out — nearby.

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Front of House Travel Dine-in Seating 317

EATER

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I begged for horseback riding lessons for my birthday and even happily volunteered to muck out the stalls at my local barn — as long as it meant I could spend more time being around the ponies. I read Black Beauty a dozen times and envied my friends with Breyer horses, a luxury I never had.

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Front of House Back of House 2025 Travel 147

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 28, 2022

If you take the time to study these differences and discover more about individuals you will likely find rich family heritages, a lifetime of engrained traditions, and a plethora of life experiences that go beyond sitting in a classroom or working day in and out on a restaurant line. This is where he cooks from.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 16, 2020

This may very well be a “re-set time”, a time for all of us to take a hard look at what we have become in recent years. Maybe this is a time to take a “time out” and rethink where we are and what we have become. It is also true that once we rise out of crisis mode the hospitality industry is one of the first to try and recover.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 1, 2024

Outside people went about their day, never giving mind to the effort, dichotomy of characters, hustle, stress, and complexity of what takes place in the “back of the house” at a twelve hundred room hotel. As I tied on my apron and pulled out my knife kit ready to dive in, the executive chef called me into his office.

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Back of House Kitchen Safety Hotels Front of House 421