Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 19, 2023

What about that moment when the training wheels came off and you were able to balance and ride your bike independently? How many inner musicians, writers, athletes, teachers, entrepreneurs, cooks, chefs, and restaurateurs never rise to the surface because they were never recognized, encouraged, trained, taught, or given the opportunity?

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Crunchtime

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With a 5-Step Leadership Ladder , you can quickly deploy a talent development program to retain team members and develop bench strength. Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of the mad scramble, you had a bench of available talent already trained for their next role and ready for promotion? It doesn’t have to be.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

It's up to the restaurant manager to maintain a warm, welcoming atmosphere and train staff to do the same. Metrics and sheets you'll need to track include cost of goods sold, labor costs, new operating income, profit, and (see below) inventory costs. Operations This is the catch-all of all restaurant manager responsibilities.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2024

Festaurant growth done right starts with leaders aligning around operational priorities and smart key performance indicators (KPIs). They must connect to priorities across key operations, marketing, customer service and finance roles. They need alignment with practical operational realities and bandwidth.

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Ken Burgin

JUNE 6, 2023

I love using ChatGPT to develop training activities and materials for restaurant and cafe employees. I’ve used it here to brainstorm ideas for training modules for waiters, managers, cooks, head chefs, and baristas. This will help train staff in customer service skills and problem-solving.

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Crunchtime

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Plus, 5 ways to improve compliance with standard operating procedures Whether you run a restaurant business with 500+ locations or a handful of convenience store locations, you know what work needs to be done – and how it should be done properly – to run your business effectively. What are standard operating procedures in restaurants?

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Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

This requires a complex organization of independent operations that are still required to communicate, share, and fall in line with the mission of the property. So where will you get exposure to much, if not all of that?

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7 Shifts

APRIL 21, 2023

In that leadership position, he created classes for managers on skills like leadership and cost control. That initiative and determination advanced him to National VP of Operations, where he oversaw half of Taco Bell's US stores. In that role, McCutcheon led the creation of the TM to GM career training program.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Look at your current role as the most important in the success of the operation and the power of the plate. Share, teach, and train others – this is the fuel that drives your own leadership engine. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Master your role and support those around you. Seek to be all that you can be.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Throughout his career, which included owning and operating several more restaurant concepts and other service businesses, he spent decades leading his teams through many highs and lows. In the good times, this looks like rigorous training, a dedication to time-honored processes, and a focus on building your culture. franchisees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Despite external pressures on talent, ample opportunity exists for restaurant operators to prepare for a year of constant change. With 2021 nearly wrapped up, restaurant operators across the country are looking to the New Year with cautious optimism. For leaders in the restaurant and hospitality industry, now is the time to adapt.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While customers are constantly inundated with engaging visual messaging, the other critical stakeholders – the internalones, like home office staff, frontline team members, franchisors, and corporate leadership – often find themselves overlooked.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Each of these independent operations can only be successful if they understand how they can and must work as a community of businesses and patrons. Stop into retail shops to catch the feel of the business, visit other restaurants, and talk with the operators about their challenges – you know their challenges are probably the same as yours.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 29, 2024

Certainly, the restaurant and the chef have a responsibility to train, but the individual cook can take that training to a new level if they are willing to seek out every opportunity to learn and grow. These skills will take time and dedication to master – start today!

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 31, 2020

In all cases, there will be a re-shuffling of priorities driving changes to the profile of the “best candidate” for the leadership position in the kitchen. This is where you need to be. [] POWER vs. LEADERSHIP. “I This is what brings a team together and firing on all cylinders. [] LACK OF TRAINING.

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Sling

MAY 9, 2023

Efficient and effective restaurant operations don’t just happen. In this article, we discuss some of the best ways to improve your restaurant operations and introduce you to the tools that can help make that easier. Table of contents What is restaurant operations? This is especially important when training new employees.

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EATER

JULY 24, 2020

Among other demands, the letter calls to diversify the board of trustees, and make events more equitable On July 16, a large group of James Beard Foundation employees sent a letter to the foundation’s senior leadership team, outlining a list of demands for the future of the organization.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 4, 2020

Structure is important to a chef as it aligns with our obsession over mise en place (organization) and how it defines the operation of a successful kitchen. This structure is established over time and is dependent on how an individual was trained and the level of organization that surrounded him or her during this training phase.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2024

Retaining quality staff members is always a key challenge for restaurant operators. That means management must define the culture they want, hire employees who are a fit for it, and then discuss it constantly, as much as they discuss operations. Train them to look beyond the rude behavior and “find the need.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 17, 2024

Companies must cultivate a mindset that prioritizes food safety in daily operations and bakes it into employees’ attitudes, values, and behaviors. Conduct Ongoing Training : Comprehensive and continuous training programs for all staff members are essential to fostering an effective food safety culture.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Finding the right concept, building in the right location, finding, and training the best staff, nurturing the team, and creating a menu that reflects the needs of the guest and the passion of the cook is only the beginning. To owners and operators, the cook for all ages must be both.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

It's up to the restaurant manager to maintain a warm, welcoming atmosphere and train staff to do the same. Metrics and sheets you'll need to track include cost of goods sold, labor costs, new operating income, profit, and (see below) inventory costs. Operations This is the catch-all of all restaurant manager responsibilities.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

It is the team behind the chef that makes a successful restaurant; it is the team that executes the chef’s vision; and it is the team’s focus that allows the chef’s cost consciousness to result in a financially successful operation. TRAIN people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”.

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Embrace the Suck

MAY 24, 2023

If a candidate seems promising in terms of personality, complement it with a behavioral assessment to gain a better understanding of their leadership style, communication skills, and response to feedback. To assemble a high-performance team, you need to perpetually be recruiting, marketing, training, and learning.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Even the most loyal guest will start to drift away if they can’t depend on the service, the product, or the hours of operation. Before you close and shift hours of operation think completely about the potential domino effect. [] NOT INVESTING IN COMPETENT EMPLOYEES. Engage them and they will become your ambassadors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

The landscape of the restaurant industry has changed forever due to Covid and the operational complexities that the pandemic introduced. Even with this good news for restaurant operators, many challenges still remain – particularly around staffing in both the front and back of the house. And according to Technomic, Inc.,

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Goliath Consulting

APRIL 25, 2020

Companies will return to regular operations soon with a philosophy of cautious austerity. When you as management, operate from a place of caring and COMPASSION, this will be recognized. The post A NEW TIME FOR OLD FASHIONED LEADERSHIP appeared first on Goliath Consulting Group. Working capital is tight.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 23, 2022

Problem : Manual scheduling processes that took too much time, siloed operations, and didn't resonate with a younger, tech-saavy workforce. Solution: Cloud-based scheduling software that brings together operations across 16 locations, keeps staff accountable, and gives them tools to increase efficiency. Number of Locations: 16.

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Embrace the Suck

JUNE 18, 2021

Despite the hurdles, many restaurant owners and operators believe that as long as they’re making money, they’re doing “good enough.” They do start to train people better than the bad restaurants, yet their training system is still outdated and is usually only done when someone is hired. IF YOU'RE DRIVING.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Trust is built when company leaders demonstrate a strong commitment to food safety and provide the necessary resources – including training, tools, equipment, and support – to ensure compliance with regulations and best practices.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 1, 2020

This is when leadership is most needed. Leadership is always important, but seems to be in critical need when we are in time of crisis. This is when people turn to either those with the title or those with a history of leadership. Leadership, real leadership comes from four actions: * What we hear. What we learn.

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EATER

APRIL 8, 2021

It is also a nonprofit that has spent 30 years training at-risk youth exiting the juvenile detention system to work in hospitality. So the staff and the 15 young people working that night spent most of the evening doing extra training and cleaning to keep busy. Café Momentum is more than just a restaurant, though. Several U.S.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 23, 2020

When strength is practiced without grace and dignity, then leadership is in serious question. Those who promote the integration of grace and dignity in their style of leadership are also those who understand that many, if not all of those listed examples of operational realities are directly related to how the chef approaches them.

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Foodable

MAY 21, 2021

Communication strategies can help you manage your team, address challenges, and benefit the day to day operation of your business. Ken has helped launch new concepts and train hospitality leaders throughout the United States and Canada. He also points out that a manager’s team must see them as a value to the operation.

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7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

That’s why our teams—who specifically work to improve restaurant operations, performance, and staff happiness—have curated a 7-course menu of the best books about understanding restaurant management. So pull up a chair and take a deep dive into some of the most insightful and actionable tips from the best in the business. Goodreads: 4.09

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The tasks of the chef are fairly universal: planning menus, putting your signature on each dish, hiring and training staff, ordering product and building vendor relationships, controlling costs and adhering to budgets, maintaining a clean and safe kitchen environment, etc. Sometimes the difference is the shear scale of the operation.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 20, 2021

Anger over a realization that a kitchen did not meet expectations can often be associated with a realization that the chef failed to properly train or communicate. Any way that an operator, or co-workers might help to relieve some of these pressures could result in a much better emotional outcome. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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