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YOUNG COOKS – CREATE YOUR FUTURE

Culinary Cues

Are you serious about cooking, creating, coaching a team, and contributing to the success of a business? Treat everyone as you would want to be treated. [] LISTEN AND HEAR Hear the chef, manager, your peer cooks, the dishwasher, service staff, vendors, and customers. How eager are you to reach that position of chef? Start today!

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Zero Restaurant Food Waste for the Environment and Lower CoGS

Restaurant365

While true zero-restaurant food waste is extremely rare, it can be a meaningful goal. Implementing a zero-waste initiative can help minimize your carbon footprint and may even attract new customers who embrace your environmental friendliness. Additionally, limiting your food waste can improve your restaurant’s bottom line.

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A CHEF’S HARD DAY’S NIGHT

Culinary Cues

If a chef can manage a week or two here or there it will be at that rare time when business is off and even then, chefs are checking their email a few times a day to see what crisis is occurring while they try to relax. A 34-hour work week is unthinkable, a 60 – 80-hour workweek is more like it.

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A CHEF’S ADVICE TO 2022 CULINARY GRADUATES

Culinary Cues

A retired NFL coach would rally his team before a game with the words: “Where would you rather be than right here, right now?” Excessive waste is a sign of disrespect for those involved in the process of getting those ingredients to you. This is where you are right now. It took a lot for you to get to this point.

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Can a Bar Inventory Management System add 10% to Your Bottom Line?

Mad Mobile

Loss, waste, inconsistency — without careful management of bar inventory, you’re quickly losing a decent chunk of money. Those losses are avoidable with bar inventory management systems, whether home-brewed or automated through software. What is a bar inventory management system? Take these lessons to heart.

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THE IRREFUTABLE LAWS OF BEING A CHEF

Culinary Cues

The chef must be the coach who recognizes strengths and weaknesses and builds consensus around common goals so that the machine works properly. [] A Teacher and a Trainer. If a chef fails to understand this, then he or she will eventually fail in that position. [] A Business Manager. THE LAW: It is not enough to hire competent people.

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The Top 10 Things Learned from Working with 1000+ Restaurants

Embrace the Suck

I keep detailed coaching notes from every client I have had over the past 11 years as The Restaurant Coach™ Some of those stories make it into my books, speaking gigs, podcasts, or just as a solid warning to new clients about what not to do! Your time management most likely sucks. Stop saying you’re too busy.

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