Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Share, teach, and train others – this is the fuel that drives your own leadership engine. If, however you have the sense that cooking is more than that and you have your eyes on many years connected to the professional kitchen, then read on. So, here are some golden rules that will help you to move in the right direction.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This isn’t the French Laundry” so why even invest the time in plate presentation and cooking it properly – WRONG. Which type of tomato will present the most pronounced flavor of fine ripened, deeply refreshing acid/sweet balance on the sandwich and how can we ensure this consistently throughout the year?

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 22, 2023

They hire and train the most dedicated professionals to execute the plan, and they are always focused on the details. Nancy Silverton is likely best known for introducing the country to La Brea breads. But it is her sporadically offered grilled cheese on her crunchy sour dough bread that draws crowds and calls for a label of “perfection”.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2023

We also prepared a formal Schematic Design presentation for approval. This presentation included final floor plans, 3D-sketched renderings, furniture selections and finishes found in the space. Lastly, between the kitchen and the wine rooms sits a luxe private dining room that can sit a party of 12. The facility opened in 2022.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 23, 2021

This can be direct (the menu item itself contributes working funds) or indirect (because the item is present on the menu – other items are more likely to sell). This can be direct (the menu item itself contributes working funds) or indirect (because the item is present on the menu – other items are more likely to sell).

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Fine dining is an all-encompassing experience that includes elegant and sophisticated services as well as the highest-quality food. In a fine dining restaurant, there are normally more staff members, and the personnel have a higher degree of training and skill. A Fine Dine Experience And Its Features.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Our portfolio includes top-tier machines that provide relentless ice production without forsaking the optimum shape and size of the ice, essential for beverage service and food presentation. Fine-Tune Your Operational Workflow Increased footfall dictates a reevaluation of your kitchen's workflow.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The good news is that restaurants are beginning to see an increase in sales as more and more customers return to in person dining in addition to their new habit of ordering for home delivery. There are a number of possible solutions, but not all of them positive. SKILL SET: A cook’s repertoire will need to expand.

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Lavu

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It is calculated by dividing the number of guests served by the number of tables available during that time period. For example, if a restaurant has 10 tables and serves 30 guests in a four-hour period, its table turnover would be 3. How to Calculate Table Turnover Rate? This should include all tables available for seating customers.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I know how heartbreaking it is when the dining room is nearly empty, and how invigorating it is when it is full. Nevertheless we have always been blessed with choice when it comes to finding a place to eat. These are the places where memories are built and where customers become friends, and friendships last from generation to generation.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 9, 2021

This is where cold appetizers, salads, terrines, pates, cheese plates, and likely desserts are presented with a high level of artistic expression and where, in many cases, the profit in restaurants reside. The garde manger must be conservative with portion sizes while affording the greatest impact on the dining experience.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It was a good night with two full turns of the dining room. Similar activity is taking place in the dining room as tablecloths are replaced and touched up, place settings aligned, glasses checked for water spots, chairs polished and carpets touched up, napkins are folded, and plants are misted.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Restaurants survive and thrive on the “early and late majority” that represents over 60 percent of the dining population. I can vividly remember a chef position at a fine dining operation that I walked into and faced planning my first signature menu. That is in our DNA, we can’t really help ourselves.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It makes no difference if it is a 4-diamond restaurant offering fine dining, a quality pizza shop, a bakery, or a hospital foodservice – discipline, pride, and results are closely aligned. A well-run kitchen is not a free-form environment where every cook does his or her own thing or moves to the beat of his or her own drum.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2020

Plan out your labor costs (costs associated with staffing) by researching average wages in your area, suggested training costs, and any benefits you’ll provide. Training before opening. Are you opening a restaurant in 2020? Congrats! ?? And good luck. It’s going to be the ride of your life. Dawn Tyndall, Clean Juice. Hiring/staffing ??

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The luxury of choosing among so many great places to eat has left the customers of the present era spoilt for choice. Anyone who’s worked in the restaurant business understands that training staff takes a lot of time and resources. The zeal to train your new staff eventually dies when they are not loyal to your brand.

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Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If you are looking for restaurants with private dining in Memphis, we have collected a list of the best private rooms for work dinners, special occasions, or a work party across the city. Continue reading for more information on the fifteen best private dining restaurants in Memphis! Best Private Dining in Memphis.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 26, 2020

Having your chef walk through the dining room and connect with guests is a way to make customers feel special and provides an opportunity for them to ask serious questions about the menu. There is so much to think about, so many decisions to make, and so much angst about what the future holds. Everything helps.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 27, 2022

Like a fine wine we are a blend of different flavors that through experience reflect a perfect mix – each flavor has a role to play and is introduced in the right proportion to create that signature. This is what makes us unique as cooks, this is what builds our signature that appears on a menu. So, where do those flavors come from?

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 25, 2021

At the other extreme – an extraordinarily prepared, multi-course meal, touched by accomplished cooks, presented on a plate of fine china, in a pristine environment, with attentive service and complemented by exceptional wines will reveal all that food might attempt to be. I find it very interesting how diverse the food experience is.

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Food Fine Dining Café Customer Experience 418

EATER

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Lille Allen/Eater A former fine dining server dishes on how the flambé, a dying convention of French haute cuisine, became the ultimate tableside flex I can feel sweat soaking through the armpits of my $5,000 Tom Ford suit and a nagging itch along the starched collar of my custom-fitted tuxedo shirt. What’s that thing with the fire?”

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The Restaurant Group

APRIL 21, 2024

Running a restaurant, whether it’s a fine dining, quick service, bar, bistro, or cafe venue, involves a gamut of essential activities. Turning Potential to Profitability To offer appropriate recommendations and strategies, TRG spends time with each client before presenting our recommendations.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

When you start building that “bucket list” of restaurants around the world where you must dine before you die. What is important is that at the end of the week there is some cash in your pocket, albeit – not very much. For a few, at some point that changes. It is that a-ha moment that sets the stage for cooking to move past being a job.

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Sling

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Dining, at its heart, is all about the food. Offer a distinctive dining experience as well as delicious food. Use them as inspiration for your own dining establishment. And if you’re worried about an eruption while dining, rest easy. These tremors are man-made, but they make for an unforgettable dining experience.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Whether a fine-dining experience or your local taqueria – the cooks that stand out, the ones that are the reason why customers line up to buy their food, are the ones with well developed senses of taste, smell, touch, sight, and sound as they relate to what takes place in the kitchen. It’s an amazing process.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

Thoroughly Test Ideas and Train Employees Before Implementation A well-known QSR brand recently failed to fully vet its app prior to releasing it for customer use. .” ” This was both a technology and operational fail due to lack of proper testing/QA and employee training. This also reinforces ordering through the app.

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Cheetah

JULY 1, 2021

Many customers relate to the plight of service staff and are fine paying for what is clearly intended to supplement higher wages. Cross training your team to fulfil multiple positions in the kitchen or front-of-house will allow you increased flexibility to staff according to demand. Is it fair towards customers?

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Fine Dining Customer Experience Front of House Customer Service 148

Cheetah

JULY 1, 2021

Many customers relate to the plight of service staff and are fine paying for what is clearly intended to supplement higher wages. Cross training your team to fulfil multiple positions in the kitchen or front-of-house will allow you increased flexibility to staff according to demand. Is it fair towards customers?

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Fine Dining Customer Experience Front of House Customer Service 148

Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With so many choices presented for diners, you have to be the best of the best to encourage customers to return. The next time you are considering your dining destination, try something different, and choose based on the chef versus the cuisine. Chef Scott Muns has the ability to create an exquisite, fine dining experience.

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Future Food

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It has tested the strongest of families at the best of times, and is pertinent to my family right now, yet had previously acquired very little of my attention: Conquering the challenges of ‘Family Dining’ It’s amazing how your perceptions shift and expectations towards food and hospitality are moderated once you have children.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Yes, curbside presents a new way of fulfilling an order. There could be some lasting savings, such as decreased congestion in drive-thru or less interior space dedicated to dining room. Curbside also means more packaging, more training, and more room for miscommunication. How do we love thee, curbside pick-up?

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 13, 2021

To help with your search for the best steak restaurants in Phoenix, Arizona, I have compiled a list of dining options. Locals know Durant’s as the place where you enter through the famous back kitchen door for classic steakhouse dining. Present in the heart of Phoenix , Steak 44 specializes in serving a fantastic steakhouse menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

When navigating regulatory requirements – which are often proving to be inconsistent and reactionary – and balancing guests’ anxieties about returning to old habits like dining out, restaurant owners and managers need to respond with agility. The restaurant industry was turned upside down in 2020, practically overnight.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 14, 2024

When you walk through the dining room and observe service and interactions between staff and guests, what do you see? Is there pride in the execution of each plate and are servers charged up to present your food to each and every guest? Greatness is a way of presenting yourself, of functioning day-in and day-out.

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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The age-old adage “whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” is not true. Vegas’ over-the-top, outrageous, and sinfully fun reputation didn’t stay in Vegas – it garnered this one-of-a-kind city worldwide acclaim and allure. Read on to explore my long and eclectic list of the best restaurants in Las Vegas.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

When navigating regulatory requirements – which are often proving to be inconsistent and reactionary – and balancing guests’ anxieties about returning to old habits like dining out, restaurant owners and managers need to respond with agility. The restaurant industry was turned upside down in 2020, practically overnight.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

I have been privileged to work in kitchens all my life as a prep cook, line cook, and chef. I have built a reasonable set of technical skills along the way, and have learned – through trial and error, how to become a better than average chef and manager of kitchen operations. We are the same, yet we are much different.

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