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Every Employee Has a Role in Innovation

Modern Restaurant Management

You’ll need managers to advocate for employees’ great ideas, and coach them through the process, rather than passing the idea onward with a perfunctory “thanks.” When Canlis, the recognized fine dining restaurant in Seattle, was forced to close its dining room during Covid-19 lockdowns, their employees got to work.

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How to Increase Employee Productivity

7 Shifts

There will *always *be something your staff can do to enhance a patron’s dining experience. As a restaurant manager or operator, you are the driving force in productivity – leading your staff and keeping customers happy. However, productivity is more easily trained than managed.

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TEAM COMPETITIVENESS IN THE KITCHEN

Culinary Cues

Create a Team Built to Win. How you play the game in the process of winning is critical, as is the sportsmanship that allows people to get past defeat with honor and grace while taking the time to positively recognize those who administered that defeat. Well-run organizations – in this case a kitchen, are built to win.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

With so many amazing new dining and entertainment experiences emerging around the world, it feels good to be a part of that revolution and to bring something unique back to San Diego.” Hunter also has plans for a robust dining program in partnership with San Diego’s top restaurants and caterers. million who spend $11.5

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JUST DON’T KNOW OR JUST DON’T CARE

Culinary Cues

It’s a disease that seems to creep into the mainstream; a disease that can be kept in check if there is a desire to do so; a disease, in other words, within our ability to thwart. This disease is highly contagious without concern for age, gender, socio-economic status, education level, or factors related to a person’s focus on a healthy lifestyle.

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CLOSING THE RINGS OF THE TOTAL RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE

Culinary Cues

How powerful is a complete dining experience and what exactly is it? An owner for whom I worked years ago referred to it as the Total Dining Experience and I have held on to this concept ever since. Is your ventilation system designed to push positive kitchen odors to the dining room or outside the entrance?

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THE REALITY FOR AN AGING CHEF

Culinary Cues

That line cook may be able to work faster, organize multiple tasks better, and tap into that adrenaline far better than you, but they still lack the experience to plan, create, coach, and problem-solve like you. We read the articles and listen to chefs and restaurateurs desperate to fill positions of line cook, sous chef, chef, manager, etc.

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