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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 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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A CHEF’S HARD DAY’S NIGHT

Culinary Cues

The chef is responsible for hiring, training, coaching, evaluating, and scheduling employees keeping in mind their skill level, personal issues and responsibilities, demands of specific positions in the kitchen (not everyone fits in every role), and an ever-changing influx of customers with their own demands.

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The Winning Strategy: Attracting and Retaining Top Talent for Your Restaurant – A Four-Step Approach

Embrace the Suck

Relying on serendipity for star performers to discover us is a wasted opportunity. If you're considering revamping your hiring process and elevating your restaurant to the next level, consider joining Restaurant Masterminds, my premier group accountability coaching program designed for independent restaurants.

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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! Getting a coach to help you break bad habits and install new ones (hint, hint).

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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. THE LAW: Look to the chef to see how the kitchen will act. It is the chef’s responsibility to set the standard for others to follow. [] A Team Builder.

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[Podcast] Own Diner’s Attention With Matt Plapp, CEO of America’s Best Restaurants

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Next I'm an AVID marketer, CrossFitter, Author, Speaker, Consultant & Business Coach. I'll address the, whether if the elephant in the room, if you're an independent restaurant with, I'll say under 20 locations, don't waste your time with an app. You don't need an app to go digital. I eat out all the time. I'm not downloading it.

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