Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 27, 2023

One of the dilemmas restaurateurs’ face is the approach taken with the management and delivery of a restaurant concept and menu. The menu is oftentimes a statement by the chef; a statement of his or her beliefs, likes and dislikes, and experiences. This menu is who I am.”

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Culinary Digital

JANUARY 16, 2024

When a menu selection is reduced, several changes and improvements can occur in kitchen operations. Here’s what typically happens when a menu selection is reduced: Simplified Kitchen Workflow: A condensed menu leads to a simplified kitchen workflow, significantly reducing the complexity of culinary operations.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 23, 2023

Have you experienced the flavors and presentations of the items that may grace your menu? Can you plan a menu focused on total utilization of meat and carcass? Is this the extent of your knowledge of menu planning? Is there breadth to your understanding of cooking, cooking techniques, and ingredients?

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The Restaurant Times

MAY 12, 2021

Similarly, food presentation also makes a massive difference in the impact that a restaurant leaves on a customer. . The proportioned presentation of every food item, decorated beautifully ensures an excellent dining experience and increases the odds of customers trying it out. . Top 4 Reasons Why Food Presentation Is Important.

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Open for Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While traditionally associated with fine dining, the prix fixe (pronounced “pre-feks”) menu has transcended its high-end roots, becoming a popular culinary trend. When curated with care and promoted effectively, this menu is a powerful tool for any restaurant, capable of making a memorable impression and drawing eager guests through the door.

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The Rail

MAY 15, 2023

What if I told you that your menu experience sucks and there is a technology that could fundamentally transform it to something truly spectacular? Well, that technology is called Augmented Reality (AR) and it delivers a complete reinvention of the way you present your menu to guests. Just complete the form below.

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Hot Schedules

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

What Hotel Menu Trends Will Define 2022? For these travelers, the dining experience will be back on the menu. Plant-based options are a must on any menu from bed and breakfasts to five-star resorts. Finding innovative ways to incorporate novel foods into your menu sets your properties at the forefront of healthy dining.

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The Rail

MARCH 31, 2023

Your drink menu doesn’t need to be dominated by non-alcoholic options, but having many beverages could help you this year. You can do that by adding an element of luxury to your non-alcoholic drinks and presenting them as an upgrade. Add more vegan options to your menu in 2023. It’s an idea to consider.

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Restaurant Engine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Choose your most popular dishes to live at the top of your menu. One of the best ways to control costs and boost revenue is by using a bit of menu engineering. In this article, we look at nine tips to maximize profits from your restaurant’s menu. In addition, you can simply limit menu choices.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

What if the chef, manager, and owner were required to do the same, in essence proclaiming they approve of the work as presented to the guest? Are you proud to present this to your teammates, manager, or guest?” Why not list your employees on the menu or on your website and their role in the organization.

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Goliath Consulting

MAY 23, 2020

The outline below will get you started on building a plan to optimize your business to keep your doors open and be prepared to capitalize on opportunities that will present themselves into 2021. Goliath Consulting Menu Development Guide. Our new normal is developing in front of us.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 16, 2022

The flavor, aroma, texture, or presentation made you sit back in your chair, close your eyes, and wonder how anything could be this good. Remember how beautiful those well designed and executed plate presentations gave you pause, stopped your conversations, and insisted that you snap a picture for posterity.

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The Restaurant Times

JUNE 25, 2022

In an exclusive interview with The Restaurant Times, Lata Tandon, a chef and a Guinness Book of world record holder for a nonstop cooking marathon, we talk about her journey as chef, her experience of international cuisines, food presentation, wastage, and more. . Our Indian curries are amazingly tasty but they are rustic in presentation.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 4, 2021

The quick fix may just be a dramatic change in how we plan and present our menus. CHANGE #1: The days of the fixed menu for restaurants should come to a halt. Without a clear understanding of where ingredient costs are going tomorrow and next month restaurants cannot afford to be shackled to a menu that is out of control.

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The Rail

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While customers may have a few favorites, a menu that never changes gets boring, fast. At the end of the day, menu compilation is a creative process not unlike that of a painter or a fashion designer. Menu development , however, involves something unique: a passion for food and flavor. Time to Refresh Your Menu?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Your Response Menu. However, a good gauge for frequency can be communicating your COVID-19 safety and prevention efforts at least as frequently as you communicate your special menu additions. But you have to demonstrate on review sites that you are present and engaged. Just Desserts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Yet, there remains one area ripe for innovative change: engaging communication for all stakeholders (and no, I’m not talking about customer-facing menu boards, point-of-purchase advertisements, drive-through displays, or slick commercials). Picture this: You're at the annual franchisee meeting. So, why wait?

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Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

Want to learn about cold charcuterie, more about a full array of cheese, platter design and presentations, making centerpieces, buffet set-up, cold sauces and dressings, marination, and fermentation, etc.? Then the choice to work in hotels, resorts, and clubs is your best option.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 23, 2021

Simply stated it is what a menu item contributes to the financial success of a restaurant. This can be direct (the menu item itself contributes working funds) or indirect (because the item is present on the menu – other items are more likely to sell). BEAUTIFUL FOOD PRESENTATIONS. So what is contribution margin?

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EATER

MAY 12, 2022

The menu at Ticonderoga Club in Atlanta | Sasso & Co. But a handful of restaurants are changing that by presenting customers with visually thoughtful illustrated menus that are more than worthy of their place on the dining room table. The menu cover at Manhatta in New York City. “I Cocktail bars like Death & Co.,

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Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Arby’s started as a restaurant focused on roast beef, and that’s still a considerable part of the menu. With such an expansive menu, you might find yourself pulling up to the drive-thru and asking, “What’s the best food at Arby’s?” Best Arby’s Menu Items. They even offer desserts and other yummy options. Well, don’t worry!

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KaTom

JANUARY 23, 2020

How to Pronounce These 12 Menu Items. Whether you’re traveling abroad or enjoying the United States’ melting pot food culture, you’re bound to happen across menu items you can’t even recognize, much less pronounce. Bruschetta (broo-SKAY-tuh). Caprese (cuh-PRAY-zay). Vietnamese. Pho (fuh).

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2021

Chefs who are able to develop systems of production that work with fewer people will find a gold star on their resume. [] STREAMLINED MENU PLANNING. Chefs who are able to generate, assess, and use analytical data in their decision-making (menu trends, cost trends, daily labor analysis, market prices, etc.) This is quite the package.

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Restaurant Engine

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It’s always a good idea to refine your menu for your patrons. Covid-19 has upended the restaurant industry and presented a myriad of challenges. This is a perfect chance for your restaurant to really refine your menu to provide your customers just what they want. Another simple menu idea is offering your diners meal kits.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 28, 2020

Is it ambience, music, plate presentations, great smells seeping out from the kitchen, the sound of frothing milk from the espresso machine, quality background music, fresh cut flowers, pots of herbs on the table, attractive logos and uniforms? BE PRESENT. YOU NEED TO BE PRESENT! All of this still counts!

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Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Olive Garden is continually adding to its menu, creating new twists on old classics, and at the same time maintaining crowd favorites like their signature breadsticks, house salad, and the Tour of Italy sampler. We’ve done plenty of taste testing and have details about eleven of the best Olive Garden menu items listed below.

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Bingage

JANUARY 23, 2023

You and your wife sit down to think of affordable options for a birthday treat, and suddenly on TV, the daily soap serial on Starplus breaks into ads, the very first ad you see was the Happy price menu from McDonald’s Ads. McDonald’s released a variety of creative ads over a decade ago, announcing its “Happy Price Menu”. Indeed it is.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

When one upsells, one recommends menu combinations to customers based on their specific tastes. Especially when it comes to new additions to the menu, it sometimes becomes a necessity to upsell new menu items. . Your menu may reflect the atmosphere of your restaurant quite well and be consistent with your brand.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

A better description might be a balancing act that presents new and unique challenges every day. One other way you may need to manage inventory is with menu planning. Some restaurant managers work directly with the chef to plan menu item selection or daily specials. Notice a spill that your staff is too in the weeds to address?

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I’m not a big fan of quick service restaurants, but I would be willing to bet that the menu items originally created by their corporate culinary team doesn’t translate to what is served in restaurant number 953. Can they meet the crowds and even exceed budgeted customer counts on a given day? Did they sense that the value was there?

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Decision-making is ever present and comes at the cook in an instant. Every day a cook designs and executes a menu that requires an understanding of texture, smell, taste, and sound, while painting a beautiful dish on a plate. Professional cooks must be able to see, reference, analyze, prioritize, and make decisions in an instant.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 9, 2021

This is where cold appetizers, salads, terrines, pates, cheese plates, and likely desserts are presented with a high level of artistic expression and where, in many cases, the profit in restaurants reside. It is a fine line to walk – one that requires the planning of the menu to be such that all courses are designed to marry with others.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 1, 2023

I have seen pride in the eyes of a line cook who finished plating a beautiful menu item as it was presented in the pass, and the look of appreciation when the team of dishwashers was offered a special employee meal – a meal that said: “We couldn’t do it without you.” Celebration is common in the kitchen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2024

Themed Menus for the Win : Want to show support for this year’s best teams? Provide special menu options from the cities the contenders hail from – a Philly Cheesesteak if the Eagles make it or a Cuban for Miami. Now is the time to get your plays in order to be a winner this Super Bowl Sunday.

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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. Whatever your concept, whatever your menu – make sure that you execute it well every time. If you can’t do it, then partner with someone who can. [] BUILD IN CONSISTENCY AND DEPENDABILITY.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

You need to carefully price your restaurant menu to make it to the top and earn as much as possible. While it’s understandable that you want to make a profit, being overly aggressive with your menu pricing can drive the customer away. This explains poor menu management which results in lower revenue. .

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Get it wrong—with a menu that doesn't fit the ambiance or pricey dishes not suited for the clientele—and would-be regulars will at best feel confused and at worst never return. Restaurant concepts define the overall theme or idea behind a restaurant, including cuisine, service style, music, and menu design. Menu design.

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