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EYES WIDE OPEN, EYES WIDE SHUT

Culinary Cues

And the industry accepts that there will be polarized relationships between the front and back of the house, a lack of mutual respect, and sometimes gut-wrenching relationships between the two. There is a real dichotomy in understanding, a gap in understanding between the employer and employee and how each views the work at hand.

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Rethinking the Future of Dining Through Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

Noma’s announcement generated a healthy debate on how we can improve the restaurant industry as a whole and how we should defend our food systems and culture. Noma’s announcement generated a healthy debate on how we can improve the restaurant industry as a whole and how we should defend our food systems and culture.

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From The Front Door to the Back of House: Navigating COVID in a Rapidly Changing World

ChefMod

While you can’t plan for everything, you can anticipate how COVID and government regulations in response to it will affect your business and simultaneously plan your business’s future during and hopefully after the pandemic.

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Coronavirus and Restaurants: A Year In Review

7 Shifts

A year ago this month, our industry was rocked to its core. After a few weeks of uncertainty in February and early March 2020, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, by the World Health Organization. America and Canada soon followed suit by declaring states of emergency, effectively turning all restaurants into takeout-only businesses.

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THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES

Culinary Cues

Now that the pandemic was beginning to come under control and state governments were loosening the grip of protocol on restaurants – customers were beginning to re-emerge, albeit with some trepidation. We can easily apply Dickens profound human summary to the state of the restaurant industry today.

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CHEFS – YOUR EMPLOYEES JUST MIGHT HAVE THE ANSWERS

Culinary Cues

Engage them, trust them, encourage them, excite them and give them an opportunity to help far beyond preparing a plate of food or delivering it to the table. Engage them, trust them, encourage them, excite them and give them an opportunity to help far beyond preparing a plate of food or delivering it to the table.

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‘We Need to Feed People — Thousands of People’

EATER

Brendan Smith/Chef Hui Weeks after the Maui fires, Hawaiʻi chefs continue to cook for displaced people while trying to keep their own restaurants afloat On the morning of August 8, chef Isaac Bancaco rode his bike to Pacific’o on the Beach, the upscale Pacific Rim restaurant he helmed on Front Street, on Lahaina’s historic waterfront.