Culinary Cues

APRIL 14, 2025

The dish was elevated to an entirely different level as the guest became the most important person in the dining room during the process. The story can make the dish but the dish absent the story is just another salad that can be found in fine dining or your local Greek diner. As is the case with Caesar Salad, the story sells.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Customers are becoming more discerning about value and anxious about the price of a meal (from quick service to fine dining). Theres plenty of fear and loathing going on in the restaurant business. Every restaurant and restaurateur are struggling to figure it out how am I going to make this work? This is true for every business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"The Menu" hits the screens next month and chefs are already dishing about the black comedy focused on fine-dining. Personally, the end goal for me is to spend more time having “fine dining” experiences and visiting Michelin star restaurants. .” Here are what some shared with us.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Personalized Dining is the Future. As we head into the new year, we expect to see consumers traveling less, shifting their discretionary travel spending to local experiences like restaurants. These systems allow operators to create seamless, tailored dining experiences that ultimately drive both guest loyalty and revenue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

“In 2025, restaurants are walking the fine line between automation and hospitality,” said Ming-Tai Huh, Head of Food & Beverage at Square. “In 2025, restaurants are walking the fine line between automation and hospitality,” said Ming-Tai Huh, Head of Food & Beverage at Square.

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As the hospitality industry continues to evolve, the dining experience at hotels and resorts has become a crucial element in shaping guest satisfaction. From sustainable practices and health-conscious menus to tech-enhanced dining and global flavors, hotel and resort restaurants are adapting to meet the diverse needs of the modern traveler.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

There are many choices in life, one road vs. another, good vs. great, mediocre vs. acceptable, truth vs. lies we choose to move towards one or the other and live with those decisions. In business, those choices can lead to success or failure, prominence of subservience, profit or loss. Is that what you believe? Is that how you want to be perceived?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2021

We’ve been crayon pros for over 30 years, ever since we started partnering with the fast-growing casual dining restaurant chains of the 90s. Read on to learn more about crayons—the unsung heroes of casual dining. Crayons have an important role to play in giving families the feel-good dining experiences they crave.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Star Anya Taylor-Joy, director Mark Mylod, and consulting chef Dominique Crenn on building the world’s creepiest restaurant It seems counterintuitive, but for many of us, there is perhaps no feeling more pervasive in the world of fine dining than discomfort. Eater: What actual restaurants inspired the fictional Hawthorne?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

Gen Z and millennials are likely to return to in-restaurant dining before older guests; and each group will have different concerns. Restaurants play an important role in our lives and in our communities; often where we celebrate birthdays, graduations, first dates, and major life moments. Safety and Trust.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But restaurants face a fine balance in increasing costs, as customers are also impacted by the realities of inflation. Recent surveys are showing the vast majority of Americans have been cutting back on dining out. For those who still haven’t, it’s worth reconsidering now as inflation impacts customer travel and spending.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the rise of eCommerce, economic impact, dining during COVID and hot dog insights. Yelp’s diners seated data shows significantly more people are dining-in at restaurants. Yelp's Economic Impact Report.

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EATER

MAY 21, 2025

But, until recently, the food served on most safari lodges featured European fine dining, British high tea, French pastries, grilled meats with imported sauces, and other relics of 19th-century European colonialism on the continent. Its an immersion into the histories, cultures, and landscapes of the host nations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

environments and are now seen everywhere from fine dining to counter service and everywhere in between. This movement toward more sustainably sourced food in both our fast-casual and fine dining restaurants will continue to expand in the future. Mark Hoefer, General Manager, Le Bilboquet Atlanta.

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EATER

MARCH 26, 2025

The Travel buds Grand hotels are home to some of the French capitals most exciting and elegant meals, according to Eaters local dining expert and guidebook author Hotel restaurants tend to have a special energy. Now its done up in warm tones and has a crystal glass roof and striking semi-open kitchen framed in copper.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Travel around and youll be rewarded. hadynyah/Getty Images A local food expert provides the ideal culinary tour of Sri Lanka, from the islands palm tree-lined beaches to its rolling highland tea plantations Floating just below the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka is a stunningly verdant island cloaked in jungles.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s impacted almost every part of our lives, from how we work and shop to how we travel and entertain ourselves. Once the government’s ‘ one-way road to freedom ’ was announced earlier in the year, UK travel companies cited a huge surge in enquiries from people keen to holiday on home ground this summer.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2022

Different innovative payment methods are being leveraged to increase food services efficiency in fast-food joints to fine dining. Travelers would have the opportunity to order in their own languages, over their own devices, and in their own time. It will most likely take off in fast-food restaurants and drive-throughs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2022

This has led fine-dine restaurants to change their existing food menus and offer completely plant-based food dishes. This has led fine-dine restaurants to change their existing food menus and offer completely plant-based food dishes. Veganism is no more a fad. It is here to sustain, grow and be accepted on a larger scale.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

It is important to always keep in mind that dining out is still a luxury, even though more and more families have built it into their lifestyle. Whether a quick service restaurant, family dining, food truck, or white tablecloth fine dining operation – there will always be some level of price sensitivity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is a topic I have presented numerous times and it seems as though whenever I travel it rises to the top of my thinking. Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. Ironically, there is always room to be great and there is plenty of room to be mediocre.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 17, 2022

With the right technology in place, restaurants can tailor smaller menus to the on- and off-premise dining preferences of their customers while leveraging automated marketing promotions to make the most of their offerings. To mitigate these concerns, restaurants have gotten creative, looking for new cost-cutting measures.

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EATER

JANUARY 28, 2021

With indoor dining still not an option in much of the country, hotel restaurants are using empty rooms as private dining suites There are few restaurants Hector Tamez frequents more than Uni , the izakaya located in Boston’s boutique Eliot Hotel. Why not briefly fill rooms by offering an exclusive evening of private pandemic dining?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

“The prospects for fine dining and sit-down restaurants are going to remain strained for all of 2021,” said Doug Groves, founder at Program Insurance Group, in College Station, Tex. “States continue to extend the dates for the closure of indoor dining and expanding closures into outdoor dining as well.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features consumers' dining desires, the power of personalization and the untapped opportunity in localized marketing. COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends. Mixed take-out bag. Mixed take-out bag.

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EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Part of the reason you’re traveling to France is, presumably, to tap into that gastronomic reverence. Say bonjour, always Whether it’s at the post office, a boutique, or a fine dining restaurant, say “bonjour” to every single person you interact with. Do as the French do, and you’ll have a much better experience in Paris.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news of Drinksgiving and Thanksgiving trends, FSR challenges, and "out-of-the-box" dining habits. AI usage has also skyrocketed, primarily in the back-of-house.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Everything else will come to you as you fine tune those skills and the knowledge to be exceptional at what you do. [] BE YOUR OWN WORST CRITIC: Don’t wait for someone else to critique your work – assess your performance and compare it to those benchmarks. So, here are some golden rules that will help you to move in the right direction.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Martha Cheng Hy’s Steakhouse was synonymous with Calgary dining in the 1950s, but as Canadian tastes have changed over the decades, a Waikīkī offshoot has become a time capsule of the iconic original It wasn’t long after opening in downtown Calgary in 1955 that Hy’s Steakhouse became synonymous with Alberta food culture.

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EATER

OCTOBER 28, 2022

short Vancouver’s old(er) guard of fine dining restaurants were left by the roadside last night at a Michelin Guide ceremony where only eight one-star awards and 23 Bib Gourmands (the guide’s ‘great food at a great price’ category) were handed out. Côte de porc at St. Lawrence/Official.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Where to find avocado tzatziki, fried seafood in a cone, mutton burgers, and octopus candied with tsipouro in the Greek capital Every year, tourists travel to the Greek capital to hike up the Acropolis, browse countless museums, and seek out tans at nearby beaches. Check with each restaurant for up-to-date information on dining offerings.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 3, 2022

According to Vacasa’s 2022 Spring Travel Trend’s survey, one thing is clear: everyone needs a break this spring. 37% are planning to travel during spring break, specifically, which is an increase from the 29% who were traveling for Spring Break 2021. American travelers are mostly staying planted on U.S. Fine dining – 41%.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For the tour, we traveled to Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, visiting a wide collection of over 80 bars and restaurants, from brand new and iconic to others that have stood the test of time. And, you don’t have to run a cocktail bar or fine dining location to play with these combinations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2022

” With a graceful floral pattern from the Ceilume collection, Orleans, the seemingly 20th century grid is transformed into 19th century European elegance, and helps unify a rather rambling dining space. The coffered effect of the panels and beams helps increase the apparent height in a low-ceilinged room.

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SpotOn

APRIL 14, 2025

Cafe Ficelle (Southern California) Family-owned and inspired by the Scofield Family's extensive travels throughout Europe — particularly France — Café Ficelle has become a cherished spot in Thousand Oaks and Ventura. New financial insights help operators prepare for the future while improving profitability.

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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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