Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I am optimistic and realistic at the same time. This is the Yin and Yang of the environment where restaurants live today. This is the Yin and Yang of the environment where restaurants live today. It is because of these people that I am very bullish on the future of the restaurant business.

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Embrace the Suck

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Then throw on top of that the drivers who have to follow strict rules and regulations for transporting food over interstates and you might now see your labor issues as not so bad. You see foodservice distributors are more in the transportation business than the food business. A lot of stuff they don’t want you to know!

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 6, 2020

A short while back the U.S. A short while back the U.S. White tower decisions without a grasp on the systemic impact of those decisions is a common flaw of leaders who are out of touch with reality. It happens in business, it happens in education, and it happens most often in government. It is never as simple as just changing the menu.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It's called the 9/80 work schedule , and it rewards employees with an additional, full day off from work in exchange for working slightly longer shifts without affecting full-time status. So, what exactly is the 9/80 schedule, what are its benefits, and how can it work in your restaurant? Table of Contents. What is a 9/80 Work Schedule? Eight-Hour.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Meanwhile, robots in the front of house are leading customers to their tables, working in tandem with servers to carry loads of heavy dishes in a single trip, and providing novel experiences and entertainment that bring guests into the restaurant. During a busy rush, coordinating these varied tasks can become overwhelming.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

What restaurants can do, however, is re-think how their direct food supply is managed – from transport to inventory control. Around 33 to 40 percent of food goes to waste each year. A large chunk of that comes down to complex problems in global food supply chain management that most restaurants have little control over.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 23, 2020

But the news cycle has demonstrated that one day’s positive outlook is countered with dire reports of additional cases the next – with consumers jolted back to compliance with safety recommendations. Increasingly, automation is expanding from back office tasks to the kitchen and beyond.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Every restaurant has a back of house and a front of house. Cloud Kitchens are restaurants with no front of house. This indicated a clear trend that a “restaurant” does not need to necessarily comprise of both front of house and back of house components.

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Touch Bistro

JULY 18, 2021

The challenge is, the restaurant industry has been struggling with a shortage of chefs and other back of house staff for several years now. Back in 2019, TouchBistro’s Annual Industry Report found that seven in 10 restaurants in the U.S. were experiencing a labor shortage. million jobs – or 12% – short of pre-pandemic levels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

We are witnessing the evolution of fine dining. Astonishingly veganism is a chief enabler of this culinary transformation. Starting out as a whole grain diet for radicals, vegan food culture has evolved into Michelin star worthy mega trend for future chefs and culinary experts. Being Vegan Isn’t Gastronomical Anymore. percent in 2021.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2022

As Americans reach for a potential post-pandemic world, the restaurant industry continues to reel from two years of economic, staffing and supply chain chaos. Of these, one of the biggest challenges facing independent, franchised and fast-casual restaurants is staffing. A recent article in The New York Times cited a 5.7-percent

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Brooklyn Dumpling House just opened and they're already franchising the idea. We also foresee a lot of companies will redesign locations even further to maximize efficiency. Fortunately, we have exceeded in our efforts to reduce our footprint and maximize profitability to effectively operate our drive-thrus and maintain team productivity.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

For example, English dairy farmers discarded fresh milk due to a lack of transport trucks, and 20% of Italian tomatoes were lost this year to the heat. Ports, railroads, transporters, and distributors like Cheetah are the links that hold the food supply chain together, from picking to plate. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

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Deliverect

AUGUST 31, 2020

Also, though it sounds obvious, don’t forget to consider transportability when revizing your menu. Make sure that everything you deliver can withstand half an hour on the back of a fast-moving motorcycle or bicycle dodging through traffic and hitting the occasional pothole. Start off simple: streamline your menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

For more information, visit: sba.gov/paycheckprotection. According to Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Jovita Carranza and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin SBA resumed accepting PPP loan applications on Monday, April 27 at 10:30AM EDT from approved lenders on behalf of any eligible borrower.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 25, 2022

Plus, they’re expensive to transport, store, and access. Instead, AP automation enables a range of automated bill payment options, including check, automated clearing house (ACH) and virtual credit cards. If you’re still handling your restaurant group’s AP manually, then stacks of invoices aren’t your only challenge.

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Social Hospitality

MAY 6, 2020

This invaluable partnership with JetBlue and United Airlines will ensure we can provide transportation to these fearless warriors at no additional cost.” Four Seasons New York: Housing Healthcare Pros The Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan is providing free rooms to doctors, nurses and other medical personnel. Thank you @FourSeasons.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

It’s not enough just to contain it for transport. Updating packaging to account for new ways of getting food from restaurant to car to house to table can increase propensity to re-order significantly. Customer expectations are level set by their most advanced in-store and digital experiences.

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EATER

MAY 5, 2021

And there’s no going back now. A couple of years ago, Tacolicious, the San Francisco restaurant I’m a partner in, switched from using corn tortillas from a local tortilleria to making our own in-house. The pandemic has forced restaurants to accommodate delivery in order to stay relevant. But my real worry isn’t a one-star rating.

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Future Food

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So much damage has been done to retail in general and hospitality in particular this year that 2021 is going to be a year to heal, slowly getting back on public transport and getting settled into the Next Normal. Covid Safe Dining Outdoors at Entrecôte Parisian Steak House, Melbourne. The post-COVID world is a Design-led world.

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Cheetah

JANUARY 20, 2022

Restaurants struggling to hire quality back-of-house staff require a lower range of products to prep if they have smaller menus. Fewer ingredients bought and prepped means less food waste, lower transport costs, and less single use plastic packaging etc. Smaller Menus Relieve Labor Shortage Stressors.

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Perfect Daily Grind

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s like finding a flat or a house. Most of the world’s best-known café chains started off as a single neighbourhood coffee shop. While some café owners set out to simply serve good coffee to local people, others choose take their coffee further afield and scale their business to create a chain. . Read on to find out what they said.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

That’s evidenced by the onslaught of food-related questions directed to @AskTSA , a Twitter account operated by the Transportation Security Administration that can help you figure out how to pack everything from a can of cranberry sauce to a literal panini press. “We But green bean casserole is fine.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Short-staffed and overwhelmed, restaurants’ hours of operation have been cut back, with signs on windows practically pleading line cooks and waiters to apply for one of many open positions. Here’s how three owners are doing it. Where eating at restaurants became an option, the experience felt different.

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Restaurant Clicks

APRIL 21, 2021

A fun and casual restaurant, Guapos is perfect for a night out with friends or even a laid back date night. It can certainly take multiple attempts to find the best Mexican restaurant in any city. We have made that task easier for you in the Washington, D.C., Top Mexican Food in DC. Oyamel is a top Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Located along Pittsburgh’s famous North Shore area of downtown, Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse is a giant restaurant that accommodates large parties of up to 125 guests while also offering special intimate dining experiences families and couples look for in a prime steak house. Best Steakhouse Restaurants in Pittsburgh. Make a Reservation.

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EATER

MAY 14, 2020

Stemilt has actively implemented social distancing, symptom monitoring, and other recommended COVID control measures at its work and housing sites,” Chelan-Douglas Health District administrator Barry Kling said in a statement. “I Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest in a field in Greenfield, California | Brent Stirton/Getty Images.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 30, 2022

Part of this, in a much more rudimentary form back then, was marketing. The first printed advertisement for coffee is believed to have been published in 1652 by Pasqua Rosée, one of the first coffee houses in London. Coffee is one of the most economically significant agricultural commodities in the world. But why is this the case?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features ezCater, S?mrus, mrus, Audible, 7shifts and SevenRooms, Checkers & Rally’s, Subway, Chipotle, Napa Seafood Foundation, Igloo, Bringg and Karbach Brewing Co. Feed the Front Line. In just over a week, the program has already sent more than 20,000 meals to 145 hospitals across the country.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 4, 2020

NOTE: As of June 3, 2020, both the House and Senate have passed the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020. NOTE: As of June 3, 2020, both the House and Senate have passed the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020. It appears that back rent and prepaid rent paid during the Covered Period are eligible.

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Restaurant365

JULY 24, 2020

When the food is ready, a delivery driver employed by the restaurant or third-party delivery service transports the meal to the specified location. Shelter-in-place orders, dine-in restrictions and diners’ hesitation to eat out have combined to prompt restaurants to shift their focus to takeout and delivery. What is a ghost kitchen?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2021

But the good news is, across the industry, business is back on the rise—powered by limited in-person seating and continued diner interest in take-out and delivery. But the good news is, across the industry, business is back on the rise—powered by limited in-person seating and continued diner interest in take-out and delivery.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Over the next decade, new cafes, restaurants, and housing developments owned by outsiders replaced many resident-owned properties and abandoned lots. Inocencio Carbajal opened his acclaimed taqueria, Carnitas Uruapan, on West 18th Street in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood in 1975. But the Pilsen around it is changing again.

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Restaurant Clicks

JUNE 3, 2021

Lulu’s is an unbelievably whimsical wine garden with beautiful dining areas in both the front and the back of the restaurant. The back patio leaves you believing you had been transformed to a beautiful European wine garden, complete with a running water fountain. Hidden in the West End of Washington, D.C.,Upper What to try on the menu?

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Sling

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Or, if task completion has fallen below the norm in recent weeks, you could implement an incentive that motivates team members to push the numbers back up. Are you searching for a way to recognize your employees for their years of service, reward them for a job well done, and retain them longer? Sounds like a tall order, doesn’t it?

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 10, 2022

Milling is one of the most important post-harvest steps in coffee production. It involves removing the various layers of the cherry to remove the seeds. Wet milling is carried out after harvesting, while dry milling happens once the green coffee reaches the optimal moisture content for export. The stages of coffee processing.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As you walk into the restaurant, you’re transported back to the days of the wild west, long before the Tucson we know today. Tucson is one of the fastest-growing cities in America, and the only thing growing faster than the city itself are the bars and restaurants that call Tucson their home. I’m here for you. Best Steak in Tucson.

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