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CARPE DIEM, COOKS

Culinary Cues

The needs run the entire gamut: cooks, bakers, chefs, managers, bartenders, servers, caterers, and even business partners…the shortages and the opportunities are EVERYWHERE. Remember how risky it was to take those training wheels off your bike at the age of seven or eight?

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What Restaurant Leaders Need to Know About Their Non-Desk Workers 

Modern Restaurant Management

One study shows that 95 percent of guests would go back to a restaurant again if they had a pleasant experience and the staff catered specifically to their personal preferences. This kind of customer service can only happen if employees feel fulfilled, happy, valued, important at work. They need to have the latest information.

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Where Safety Meets Satisfaction — Tips For COVID-Era Restaurateurs to Elevate Their Customer Offerings

Modern Restaurant Management

Employees should be coached on how to establish connections, which can be difficult through masks and distance. If the process isn’t effortless and the employees personable and polite, processes and employee training should both be updated immediately. Fulfilling Other Needs.

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CHEF – A PATH TO GREATNESS

Culinary Cues

Chefs must know how to identify, hire, train, mentor, coach, evaluate, and sometimes cut a team member loose if his or her presence has a negative impact on the team. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. This network is there to help, advise, critique, support, and sometimes stop a chef from making a decision. CAFÉ Talks Podcast.

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Providing The Best Restaurant Customer Experience in 2024

7 Shifts

In this case, you should train your staff on effective communication, active listening, and conflict resolution skills. Well-trained staff are more knowledgeable about the menu and better at handling customer requests. Aside from training, it’s no secret that pay plays a big role in retaining and motivating staff.

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MRM People & Places: Cassoulet War, Zagat Stories and AQUAlounge

Modern Restaurant Management

Hunter also has plans for a robust dining program in partnership with San Diego’s top restaurants and caterers. “This will be a rigorous program designed to train students from all over the world for a resort and club-focused culinary career,” noted Dr. Gary Markowitz, Senior Vice President of Education at Helms College.

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Chef Courtney Storer Is the Reason the Food on ‘The Bear’ Looks So Damn Good

EATER

Now, she’s a private chef with her own catering business and the self-described “luckiest culinary producer in the world,” thanks to her job on The Bear. Storer is the person responsible for training the hit show’s actors in essential kitchen skills as well as helping the writers make the scripts sound as true to restaurant life as possible.