Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2023

The dining room opens in 15 minutes and the adrenaline is starting to churn. At 5:30 the dining room doors open, and early bird diners begin to arrive. Cooks are now bouncing from foot-to-foot waiting for the chime of the printer as orders in the dining room are being taken by servers who put on a show face that projects calm.

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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. Mark Mylod: Rustic modernism was the aesthetic that felt most at home to us.

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The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 30, 2022

Following an order issued by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Tuesday prohibiting restaurants from offering dine-in service, Omicron has dealt a blow to the restaurant industry in the national capital. Throughout the pandemic, the food sector in India has experienced a significant setback due to regular shutdowns.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The aroma of a simmering veal stock, pans of bacon being pulled from the oven, fresh coffee brewing and pastries hot from the bake shop meld together like a cacophony of sound produced by a finely tuned orchestra. Cooks are busy at work with their own preparations as breakfast orders from the dining room arrive at a harrowing pace.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

How powerful is a complete dining experience and what exactly is it? An owner for whom I worked years ago referred to it as the Total Dining Experience and I have held on to this concept ever since. How much effort is placed on the design of plated foods, the contrast and complement of colors, shapes, and assembly?

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The choice to be great or not so great is in the hands of the restaurateur and the folks who make a living with food. Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 14, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic left dining rooms empty and accelerated the industry’s shift to third-party delivery services as a major revenue driver. With this shift comes a challenge to labor conventions: how does one properly staff and budget for labor in this new era for dining? The share of front of house shifts have dropped 7.6%

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 23, 2021

In those restaurants where profit is measured in terms of smaller numbers with significant volume then concerns such as food cost percentage are of paramount importance. In those restaurants where profit is measured in terms of smaller numbers with significant volume then concerns such as food cost percentage are of paramount importance.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I know how much time, energy, money, and heart goes into that first day when a proud operator and/or chef looks up at the front door sign that proclaims they are open for business. I know how heartbreaking it is when the dining room is nearly empty, and how invigorating it is when it is full.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Snug is a bar-forward restaurant in San Francisco serving modern California comfort food, cocktails & craft beer offered in chic, comfortable quarters. Outdoor dining One way they evolved their operations was by taking advantage of San Francisco’s new shared spaces program to extend their dining outdoors in order to keep revenue up.

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Sling

MAY 13, 2023

Whether you’re looking to hire employees for a fine dining establishment, a food truck, or a fast food business, you’ll need any number of restaurant positions to make up the foundation of your team. A fine dining establishment may need all 24 positions on this list, while a food truck may only need three or four.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Here are some examples of how connectivity technologies are helping QSR brands, like Dunkin’, connect with customers and redefine the dining experience. Flexible ordering has become an expectation for restaurant customers – from fine dining to quick service. Easing Customer and Employee Friction.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With his latest, Wiseman puts fine dining under his microscopic lens, demystifying it and providing a compellingly humanistic portrayal in its place. With his latest, Wiseman puts fine dining under his microscopic lens, demystifying it and providing a compellingly humanistic portrayal in its place.

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Black Box Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the guest count front, there continues to be good and bad news. Leading the industry in average check growth during October were casual dining and quick service, while the segments with the smallest increase in check were fine dining and upscale casual. In fact, October’s same-store sales growth of +5.2%

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences. An issue that may arise from this in 2024 is data privacy.

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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. We’re also seeing many of our clients find new ways to be more sustainable in sourcing their food products. Mark Hoefer, General Manager, Le Bilboquet Atlanta. “Will this look good on Instagram?

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EATER

JUNE 28, 2023

Deep dish gets the fine dining treatment | Chuck Hodes/FX A 15-year restaurant veteran, The Bear ’s culinary producer is responsible for the show’s food as well as the cast’s cooking skills Courtney “Coco” Storer has worked in some of the world’s most vaunted kitchens, including Verjus in Paris, both as a chef and in the front of house.

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Open for Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

But it’s never a good idea to forge ahead with a restaurant kitchen or dining room design with no real floor plan. This blueprint functions as a map of the entire restaurant space, both back of house and front of house. Back of house. Front of house. Dining rooms. Outdoor dining.

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Cheetah

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ghost kitchens, a delivery-only restaurant model with no physical space for dine-in, have become essential lifelines during the pandemic. While different operational strategies and business models are put to the test, one thing is clear – ghost kitchens are not a trend, they are the new reality as delivery and dine-at-home surge.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 3, 2021

Fast casual is king With dining rooms effectively shut down early last year (many of them still limited), restaurants had to rethink how they would be serving hungry diners. In New York City, southern chicken-and-waffle restaurant Sweet Chick pivoted from casual dine-in to fast casual by rebranding as Lil’ Sweet Chick.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Whether you want Asian, Italian, or American, and whether you want a fancy, high-end meal or a casual, rowdy meet-up, food in Ann Arbor doesn’t disappoint. The Knight family originally owned a food and meat market in Ann Arbor in the 1950s. All their jams, crackers, and spice mixes are made in-house. Knight’s Steakhouse.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

However, servers are not the only ones who contribute to a guest's dining experience. A tip out ensures other employees working in the front of the house share in gratuities, such as: Barbacks. Food runners. There's a lot of confusion surrounding the process, structure, and laws regarding restaurant tip outs. Bartenders.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 26, 2020

OK – so that doesn’t help much unless we have a plan, a plan that everyone buys into, and a plan that shows hope on both fronts. So the question is – where is the leadership in building such a plan? Where is the real leadership from professional organizations and from the communities where those restaurants reside?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the fine dining operations that I consult with had a contest for selling the most chef specials, with the prize being that the chef would personally make the winner any item on the menu for dinner. Imagine you have a restaurant that seats 120 and you have only one bartender and one server to handle the front-of-the-house.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

According to Black Box Intelligence and Snagajob , full-service restaurants are feeling the pinch and report approximately six fewer employees in the back of house and three fewer in the front of house. Operators will look to technology to offset labor shortages and free up staff to enhance the dining experience.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You need to put yourself in front of diners, get them in your door, and turn them into ambassadors of your restaurant that come back and tell their friends about you. Make all touchpoints of your restaurant feel like the cool, casual, fusion, or fine dining establishment it is. So, what sets you apart from the pack?

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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 17, 2021

You can also frequent Dumbo’s famous flea markets and food markets to fill up on local eats and search for unique trinkets. If you’re looking for delicious sushi in Dumbo, I have compiled a list of my favorite spots that range in dining experiences from casual takeout spots to fine-dining Japanese bistros. Order Online.

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Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It’s also the perfect place for a private dining experience. Whether you’re planning a birthday, anniversary, or corporate dinner, Fort Worth has expansive restaurants and fantastic hospitality to make private dining unforgettable. Best Private Dining Restaurants in Fort Worth. Check out our list below! Check out our list below!

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Photoillustration by Lille Allen/Eater; photo by Ariana Genilla Louiie Victa went from line cook to multi-hyphenate food creator — and entrepreneur As a child, Louiie Victa wanted to be a veterinarian. It was not quite the fine dining experience I aspired towards, but I was young and it was fun,” she remembers.

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Deliverect

APRIL 1, 2020

With the closure of restaurant dine-in services to slow the spread of the Coronavirus, online food ordering has become a crucial business model overnight. Online food delivery has been skyrocketing in the past few years, so many restaurants already have a solid delivery model in place. already pay upfront and online.

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EATER

JULY 7, 2023

Lille Allen/Eater After years of artificially low menu prices, service fees feel like an inevitable, annoying part of dining out now If you’re the type of diner who regularly eats at restaurants, you’ve almost assuredly noticed a “service fee” tacked on to your check at one establishment or another.

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Restaurant Clicks

JANUARY 2, 2022

Pa’ia Fish Market Front Street Restaurant Merriman’s Fish House Kimo’s Maui Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar Honu Seafood & Pizza Down the Hatch Maui Mala Tavern Coconut’s Fish Cafe Eskimo Candy Lahaina Grill Mama’s Fish House. Pa’ia Fish Market Front Street Restaurant.

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Open for Business

APRIL 12, 2023

Bazirgan, no stranger to the cocktail scene (courtesy of previous stints at beloved bars such as Dirty Habit in San Francisco and Bambara in nearby Cambridge), ensures the drinks pair well with the food. Lisa Kwon Boka’s beautifully designed dining rooms feel like little worlds in their own right. We call the collection “The Greats.”

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Lavu

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What is Restaurant Table Turnover Rate? Table turnover rate measures of how often a table is occupied by a new group of guests during a specific period of time. It is calculated by dividing the number of guests served by the number of tables available during that time period. The ideal turnover rate changes based on type of restaurant.

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Open for Business

MAY 19, 2023

The point of a business plan is to show that you’ve done your homework,” says Charles Bililies, owner of Souvla , a fine casual Greek restaurant in San Francisco that has received national acclaim since opening in the spring of 2014. “The Specify whether the restaurant will be fine dining or more casual. Credit: Getty Images 3.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It means guests love the food you serve so much that one location simply won’t cut it — and you get to serve more customers, generate more revenue , and expand your business. Expanding your place in the food service industry happens in one of two ways — developing a new restaurant concept or replicating an existing one.

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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Welcome to Scottsdale, where the sun shines 314 days a year, and the official food is chili. Citizen Public House. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Citizen Public House (@citizenpublichouse). Located right in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale, the Citizen Public House is a contemporary take on an old idea.

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