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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? 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. Don’t disappoint them.

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COOKS AND CHEFS – SIGN YOUR WORK

Culinary Cues

When we sign our work, we take full responsibility for it. “I Think about it for a moment – would you be willing to put yourself out there and take ownership for work that is less than stellar, less than the best you can do? Make excellence the rule and send mediocrity out the back door. I did this, this is my work”!

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THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICAN RESTAURANTS

Culinary Cues

People do care about value and once the splash of being able to get out of the house wears off, value assessment will be paramount once again. Unless…a coach or player steps up and says “NO”! “We Apathy is a disease that spreads as quickly as a virus. It infects others who are easily convinced that it is the way it needs to be.

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CHEFS: BUILD A TEAM – KEEP A TEAM

Culinary Cues

Pointing out what an employee does incorrectly can be positive if it is reinforced with training to correct the problem. Employees are typically not opposed to being measured – they simply want to know what is expected and how that measurement will take place. The chef must also seek out those “teaching moments” whenever they arise.

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CLOSING THE RINGS OF THE TOTAL RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE

Culinary Cues

Have you established a uniform and grooming standard in your restaurant and is it equitably enforced? Are you meticulous about changing the oil in your deep fryer, or filtering out the smell of carbon build up on burner grates and broiler grids? How much time and effort are placed on this? What about the sounds of the kitchen?

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OUR DAILY BREATH: OPENING RESTAURANTS ? WHERE?S THE PLAN, STAN?

Culinary Cues

Let’s put on our restaurant hat and take responsibility for doing what is right for both the health and wellbeing of our families, staff, and customers, and help in bring our communities out of the deepest economic hole since the Great Depression. Let’s assume, for a moment, that we actually are all in this together.

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

Mad Mobile

Take these lessons to heart. If they’re too large, bar inventory and staff coaching can track and correct these issues while reducing overall orders in the process. Curb 75% of shrinkage One of the biggest revenue drains on bar inventories comes from pouring inconsistencies, slip ups ringing in drinks, and good old-fashioned pilfering.