Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

You know that generalization about the position of cook and the inference that somehow it is less than professional and quite frankly, beneath considering as a viable career choice. I have thanked that manager (in my heart) countless times for that advice over the years.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 18, 2023

Like many of you I started out washing dishes and then helping the breakfast cook (Millie) during the rush. It was way too big for me, but when I held it in my hand, I felt empowered to become a cook and set a course forward to become a restaurant manager. She taught me a few basics and I was hooked. Once there, I never really left.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 27, 2022

We cook what we are, and we are a complex combination of all our life experiences with food. This is what makes us unique as cooks, this is what builds our signature that appears on a menu. As cooks looking for the right blend, we must taste the world around us. Talk with parents, grandparents, uncles, and cousins.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

. " Conversations Behind the Kitchen Door: 50 American Chefs Chart Today’s Food Culture " by Emmanuel Laroche offers insights from leading chefs and readers will walk away with advice and inspiration from noted chefs, restaurant owners, bartenders, and industry leaders, all of whom have shared their stories in their own words.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

It is important to note that to whatever degree we allow it to happen – influencers are all around us – shaping and molding the cook, chef, and person that others will see. If you were to write your story that answers the question: “ how did I become the cook or chef that I am today” – how would you answer? I took his advice.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As a leader of people – you have an opportunity, and to some degree – a responsibility to help to mold your staff into not just competent cooks, but also productive, successful, and happy members of society. The best thing that you can do for your cooks is to consistently work at making them better at their job.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 6, 2020

Cooking for others is one of the oldest professions known to humanity. Since fire was first discovered – we have enjoyed and developed the skills to cook, eventually season, and finally plate prepared food to please other people. Restaurants open their doors to this important role. [] I WISH I COULD COOK LIKE THAT.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The theme of this year’s Fire Prevention Week, October 8-14, is “Cooking safety starts with YOU.” The theme of this year’s Fire Prevention Week, October 8-14, is “Cooking safety starts with YOU.” Use only commercial-grade appliances and detergents to clean grease-laden linens and rags.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2023

” The series starts with the cutthroat competition air of popular cooking shows — including the use of the bleep function when tensions rise — but its message is meant to encourage restaurant operators who are feeling the pressure to succeed in a difficult environment.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 13, 2022

Cooking and eating are two of the great pleasures in life. When cooking and eating add tradition and structure they become “dining”, an entirely new process that builds memory and organizes digestion into silos of recall, history, and correctness, but at their core – these two elements of life are pure pleasure.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 4, 2024

The book's highlighted advice includes: Pick The Battles to Win – Ganzler helps companies gather, organize, and evaluate myriad issues they could take on. Get your cooks, corporate buyers, or C-suite out into the lettuce fields, onto a hog farm, or on a fishing vessel. Our underlying values didn’t change though.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Cooking equipment is probably the most important thing inside a restaurant – and it’s also a leading cause of fires. Cooking equipment is probably the most important thing inside a restaurant – and it’s also a leading cause of fires. The Best Offense Is a Defensive Kitchen. million over a three-year period.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 13, 2021

Do you enjoy cooking for the benefit of others? Are you proud to wear a uniform that represents a history of cooks and chefs who came before you? Do you find satisfaction in creating something tangible each day that reflects on the skills that you have acquired over time? Do you find physical work to be gratifying?

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Garnish by Toast brings stories and advice from restaurateurs, managers, chefs, servers, cooks, and everyone else who powers the restaurant industry. Revel in the advice and perspective of hospitality leaders anywhere and anytime! The Garnish by Toast. podcast website. podcast website.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 23, 2022

There are vivid memories of catering events from hell, lines of people waiting for their char-grilled hamburgers or racks of slow cooked BBQ ribs. That common bond is always there – cooking is the common denominator, that thread of friendship that is as strong as steel. The bond doesn’t weaken over time, it only gets stronger.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 5, 2021

My first real job at the age of 15 (unless you count being a paperboy) was washing dishes and helping out the breakfast cook at a local diner. Looking back I wish that someone had given me the advice that I so freely now give to others. At this point working in a kitchen was all that I knew. Fact: 16-24 – now that is a dangerous age.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 16, 2019

We cook, we create, we work till we can’t work any more, we put a smile on customer’s faces and fill their stomachs, we inspire some and make others wonder which swamp we rose from – we are cooks and as such, we are different. It is this attitude that built many of the greatest restaurants in the world – cooks were “all in”.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Joe is a single guy, young and well educated, quiet yet personable enough, incredibly talented as a cook, reflective, and a closet alcoholic. From the perspective of the chef who reigns in charge of the restaurant where Joe works – this young line cook is an ideal employee. when he arrives for another shift behind the line.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Getty Images These tiny to-go containers of dressings, salsas, vinegars, and more are great to use in your weeknight cooking This post originally appeared in the February 17, 2024 edition of The Move , pro tips and advice from Eater’s dining experts, direct to your inbox, direct to your inbox. I’m a boring home cook.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Sometimes I order what intrigues me, while other times I simply ask the server what they like or even say: “Tell the chef to cook for me what he or she likes.” Ask them about their dream, their history, the building where they hold court, their food, how they cook, and where they find the ingredients they work with. Don’t forget it.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 28, 2020

Ask your guests for advice and ideas that might help the business that they are a part of. Engage in social media even more than before – post positive info daily. Send out information about your current offerings and your future plans through effective email blasts. Invest the time – this is very critical. This is the time to up your game!

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SpotOn

APRIL 22, 2024

Other city and county minimum wage rates in Illinois The Chicago minimum wage differs from the Cook County minimum wage. Some municipalities have their own minimum wage ordinance, in which case the Cook County minimum wage does not apply. Also, we can't guarantee results from following our advice.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 26, 2023

What issues/challenges do you see ahead for restaurants as we head in 2023 and what advice can you offer to help? In terms of advice, restaurants must learn how to quickly pivot, whether that means embracing innovation or improving their services by being more flexible and adaptable. What are ways they can bring more people in?

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Culinary Cues

MAY 24, 2022

Would you rather have a great line cook with a crappy attitude, a person who lacks dependability, and one who brings the team down constantly, or would you prefer a team player, always upbeat, anxious to learn, and always at work on time and ready to rock? BOY, THAT’S HARD ADVICE TO GIVE. NEXT: The menu. NEXT: Brand building.

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EATER

APRIL 18, 2024

Email advice@eater.com for answers. I get that cooking a whole dinner for a bunch of people can be expensive. You may be asking why it’s okay to ask someone to bring a cooked dish and not $20. Have a conundrum? Dear Amy, Last week, I drove to a friend’s apartment for a dinner party with a bunch of our mutual college buddies.

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Open for Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

One of the things that makes Ben’s Friends so effective is that they provide all services free of charge to chefs, line cooks, bartenders, servers, back-of-house team members, and so many more. Acknowledge the problem instead of turning a blind eye – Host open dialogues with employees, allowing them to congregate and give or receive advice.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2022

When we don’t want to cook, we call our favorite restaurant. So If I had one piece of advice for restaurant owners it would be to embrace technology. As I sat down to write this article, all I could think about was how the foodservice industry is so vital to our daily lives. Embrace the forward thinking it provides you.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On occasion you may need to make adjustments so that an employee can work through their challenges (schedule adjustment, change assignments, send them home, offer advice, refer them to someone who might help, etc.). You can’t be everywhere thus you must rely on others to step up and “do their job”.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2023

How does this modify cooking requirements? First, commercially packaged food that bears a manufacturer’s cooking instructions shall be cooked according to those instructions before use in ready-to-eat foods or offered in unpackaged form for human consumption. FDA is responsible for more than a quarter of the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cooking equipment is probably the most important thing inside a restaurant – and it’s also a leading cause of fires. Cooking equipment is probably the most important thing inside a restaurant – and it’s also a leading cause of fires. The Best Offense Is a Defensive Kitchen. million over a three-year period.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

About a year and more than a dozen episodes later, we had the privilege to interview a wide range of folks with advice on everything from hiring staff , to creating content, to providing benefits, and increasing profits. That starts with storytelling: “It's not enough to just go, 'Hey, hiring line cooks.

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EATER

JUNE 29, 2023

The Drag Queen’s Cookbook & Guide to Sensible Living is just one of many books, TV shows, and other media that combine drag and the art of cooking and hosting. Ruby Ann Boxcar published numerous cookbooks and did cooking demonstrations on local TV in the early 2000s. You can’t cook, you can’t clean. Edward Popli Jr.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2023

” Fueled by the legacy of a courageous father and guidance of a resilient mother, Marhaba has transformed a lifetime of cooking for survival into a career slated to hit a major milestone in 2024 with the opening of her first permanent Little Liberia location.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When it comes to handling food, it is critical to separate your raw and cooked items. For example, germs from raw meat can easily spread to cooked meat. It is strongly suggested to use different plates for raw meat, poultry, or seafood, and cooked meat, poultry, or seafood.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 6, 2021

But the bad news is they are having trouble hiring and filling positions across the board for cooks, servers, FOH and BOH positions. Here is some of our advice for restaurant hiring managers during this stressful time of finding candidates. This advice is more for retention, but less turnover is always helpful during a hiring crisis.

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Sling

MAY 13, 2023

11) Prep cook Busy restaurants will often employ a prep cook to prepare any components of the dishes to be served ahead of time so that production can proceed quickly and efficiently once an order is placed. Prep cooks are typically responsible for everything from chopping vegetables to making sauces.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Best Offense is a Defensive Kitchen : Cooking equipment is probably the most important thing inside a restaurant – and it’s also a leading cause of fires. Restaurant and bar owners can mitigate these risks by hiring qualified professionals for installation, maintenance and cleaning service.

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