Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2023

It’s the fire in the belly waiting to take charge, the anxiety being held in check, cold sweat running down your back even though it’s 120 degrees where you stand, and the nervous chatter of tongs clicking to the beat of a cook’s rhythm. The dining room opens in 15 minutes and the adrenaline is starting to churn. Everything looks good.

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Open for Business

MAY 4, 2023

We think the food going down our throats is the product,” says Ryan Giffen, assistant professor of hospitality management at California State University at Long Beach, in the Washington Post. “We Here’s why customer satisfaction is a must for increasing revenue, plus examples of how to fine-tune your restaurant’s hospitality.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There's a lot of confusion surrounding the process, structure, and laws regarding restaurant tip outs. For that to happen, it's necessary to understand the rules of tipping out, choose a structure that works for your staff, and communicate that structure to employees clearly. What is a Tip Out? Tip Out Methods.

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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

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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7 Shifts

MARCH 3, 2021

This places kitchens at the center with and multiple spokes—from delivery to meal kits to virtual brands—all coming out of it. A restaurant evolution is happening before out eyes. Here's just some of the emerging trends and concepts to look out for. Here's just some of the emerging trends and concepts to look out for.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

They remind us not only that there are great people out there, but also that many of them work for us! When the chef and general manager found this out, they immediately jumped into action. They showed her how to clean the affected area and change her bandages, and they made sure she was taking her medication properly.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There are more options for eating out than ever before. And the big restaurant brands are only getting bigger , making it even harder to stand out. 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. Download now.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 26, 2020

Let’s put on our restaurant hat and take responsibility for doing what is right for both the health and wellbeing of our families, staff, and customers, and help in bring our communities out of the deepest economic hole since the Great Depression. Let’s assume, for a moment, that we actually are all in this together.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

As Modern Restaurant Management Restaurant (MRM) magazine celebrates its fifth anniversary this month, we reached out to industry insiders to garner their insights on what issues have impacted the industry over the last five years and what issues they feel will impact restaurants in the years to come. “Will this look good on Instagram?

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EATER

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The 93-year-old filmmaker — known for depicting the inner workings of societal institutions, including the New York Public Library , Boston’s City Hall , and a Massachusetts correctional institution — takes an exhaustive approach, filming hundreds of hours of footage and piecing them together without exposition or a dramatic arc.

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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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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

AUGUST 12, 2020

So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. While these local favorites are great at attracting their neighbors to visit again and again, to out-of-towners, they’re just another restaurant that looks like it could do with some renovations. So, where do you start?

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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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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. Best safety practices for delivery. -

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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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Open for Business

APRIL 12, 2023

Check out the highlights below for a taste of what “The Greats” series has to offer, and then bookmark this page for a deep dive when you have time to read them all—or anytime you need a shot of inspiration. Lisa Kwon Boka’s beautifully designed dining rooms feel like little worlds in their own right.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Fort Worth remains a town that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and it has a bustling business, arts, and rodeo scene and a lot more space to breathe than neighboring Dallas. It’s also the perfect place for a private dining experience. Check out our list below! Best Private Dining Restaurants in Fort Worth.

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Deliverect

MARCH 24, 2021

They allow businesses to avoid front-of-house overheads, reducing costs while increasing revenue by reaching new off-premise customers. But every food business is different. So let’s take a look at who might be thinking about starting a ghost kitchen. But are they the right model to start out with?

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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. Check out my list of the best restaurants in Scottsdale below! Citizen Public House. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Citizen Public House (@citizenpublichouse). Best Restaurants in Scottsdale.

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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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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The food scene here also has excellent dishes to offer tourists and locals looking for a tasty meal in a casual, comfortable atmosphere. I was happy to enjoy Brooklyn’s low-key, friendly vibe at its many sushi restaurants, which I would’ve normally written off as fine dining establishments. Best Sushi in Downtown Brooklyn.

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Black Box Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Black Box Intelligence’s Out-of-the-Box Newsletter has been reporting all year, the decline in guest count continues to be the industry’s biggest headache. With the exception of Fine Dining, all restaurant segments experienced negative same-store traffic growth during Q3 2022. reported in August.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Fine-dining restaurants and their guests have long relied on the predictability that reservations bring. And thanks to restaurant technology , restaurateurs can now take reservation management to a whole new level. Reservation numbers on the books can tell you a lot about how much food you should order. Increased revenue.

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Sling

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Dining, at its heart, is all about the food. So what’s a discerning restaurateur to do to make her restaurant stand out ? Offer a distinctive dining experience as well as delicious food. Use them as inspiration for your own dining establishment. 20 Unique Restaurant Ideas. Source: CuriousHalt.com.

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Cheetah

JULY 1, 2021

The pandemic has exacerbated the restaurant labor crisis and there is only one way out – offering staff higher wages and improving benefits. Many customers relate to the plight of service staff and are fine paying for what is clearly intended to supplement higher wages. Is it worth it considering the IRS taxes auto-gratuity ?

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Cheetah

JULY 1, 2021

The pandemic has exacerbated the restaurant labor crisis and there is only one way out – offering staff higher wages and improving benefits. Many customers relate to the plight of service staff and are fine paying for what is clearly intended to supplement higher wages. Is it worth it considering the IRS taxes auto-gratuity ?

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