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SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF

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It’s all small stuff The post SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF appeared first on Santé Magazine.

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RESTAURANT EYES

Culinary Cues

A small detail, but a signal of lazy restaurant eyes. So, here’s the thing – knowing how to operate a restaurant is not difficult – executing the steps is a whole other story. The work is relentless, the unpredictability is insanity, the never-ending attention to detail is mind-numbing, and timing is borderline impossible.

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GREAT BREAD IS THE DIFFERENCE MAKER

Culinary Cues

It amazes me every time I visit a restaurant – the important things that we miss. With menus the focus is, and always has been, on the protein, the center of the plate. The biggest, the best quality, cooked to perfection, sourced from the finest ranch, grass fed, Angus, Wagyu, Kobe, Natural, Organic, and the list goes on and on. OUTSTANDING BREAD!

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DON’T SETTLE FOR MEDIOCRITY

Culinary Cues

We know them by name, we oftentimes buy their products and services, we read about their success, and we aspire to be like them in some small way. It would be difficult to find a more sinister, demoralizing, harmful, or self-destructive word than mediocre. Am I over-dramatizing it – maybe, but then again – maybe not.

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CHEFS – SIGN YOUR PLATES

Culinary Cues

Push it out, how many covers, lock, and load, finish strong, over the hump, wrap it up: this the language of the kitchen during service, these are the timestamps like the number of quarters in a football game or innings in baseball. Mission accomplished. In the moment gratification from taming the volume beast is short lived.

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How Fear Holds Your Restaurant Back

Embrace the Suck

It all starts with a seemingly small gesture: You make a negative comment about a guest or a staff member to someone else. It all starts with a seemingly small gesture: You make a negative comment about a guest or a staff member to someone else. That seemingly small comment you made does the same in your restaurant. Negativity.

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ANOTHER YEAR – A CHEF’S NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

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Our job is possible because of their work and the plates we create should show respect for that relationship. [] Sweat the small stuff, it’s all small stuff We are in the business of doting the “I’s” and crossing the “t’s”. I know, I know – New Year’s Resolutions seem to be a waste of time.

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