Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 5, 2022

Various existing and new companies are adopting this trend to reduce operational expenses and risks. In this blog, we will discuss the various facets being utilized to enhance the entire operation of the ghost kitchen efficiently. Each virtual concept was based on a specific Dog Haus specialty, and each had its own menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 30, 2021

Consumers and customers have changed their behavior due to the events of the previous year. Focus on changing the processes of your restaurant to accommodate the new realities and to reach out to customers living in your local areas. The pandemic has shifted the priorities of customers when it comes to the businesses they patronize.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While your restaurant may feature a diverse menu, delicious food, a great ambiance, and excellent customer service, you will still struggle to build a customer base without promoting it. The fact is that running a successful restaurant is more than just offering good food and good service. Emphasize Best-Selling Items.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

More difficult than you may have thought, more chaotic than you might expect, more poetic than you realize, and more fulfilling than you would understand: this, to me, describes the environment of the professional kitchen that few customers are able to view or experience. Each have specific duties and all have some shared responsibility.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

This new site is a one-stop hub of critical information for restaurants, employees, customers and industry partners. ” The experts at Parts Town authored a blog post for independent restaurants about how to transition toward delivery. "Cox Media has been very supportive to us during this difficult time. .

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

To nourish and provide sustenance To offer convenience To provide a forum for conversation To create opportunities for gatherings To reward customers To provide an outlet for chef creativity To complete a neighborhood or destination To rock customers world. There may be more reasons, but these are the most common.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This is a perfect time to get in front of your customers with meaningful content that reinforces your brand and positions you as a thought leader. This is a great time to up your game in social media, blogs, and media placements on trending news topics. As we wind down the year, the media is still operating at the same fast speed.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 24, 2020

These aspects include: décor, skill level of staff, style of service, pricing, profit, type of vendors selected, kitchen layout, equipment selection, marketing and advertising, pay scales, dining room seating, type of china, glassware and flatware, even the location and color scheme for the exterior of the restaurant.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

It is evident in the way customers are approached, employees interact, how staff members dress, the lack of attention paid to customer needs, the poor execution of cooking methods, the lack of attention to flavor and a haphazard approach to presentation of products, and the overwhelming disconnect between server and guest, cook and chef.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2024

But precisely, how can you determine what customers want? Businesses must remain ahead of the curve by checking all the correct boxes as customer tastes evolve at an unparalleled pace. Convenience: Simplified Dining Experiences Convenience is really what modern customers look for in a restaurant experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Any restaurant — Toast customer or not — can be listed on the site.Toast is committing up to $250,000 in matching contributions to World Central Kitchen and the Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation. ” NCR wants to help its restaurant customers during this difficult time. ” The BOHA!

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Customers are going to be hesitant to dine indoors. Promoting the air in your restaurant is as a force to clean and disinfect, instead of something to be feared, is a strategy that all restaurant operators should aggressively approach and promote to their patrons. They’ve heard from the experts that Covid spreads through the air.

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Marketing Social Media Food Safety Email Marketing 585

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 31, 2024

Every marketer insists that a company have a clear mission statement that is designed to give direction to a company and clearly articulate to the customer and employee, what the company stands for. Promote your differentiated product or service without making it a competitive statement but note that you intend to own a position.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 6, 2020

Once we return to a more robust economic time – the need for restaurants to service dual income family life and urban professionals with little time to shop and cook will once again be evident. Having been in the restaurant business, our job is to be responsible for our customers’ happiness. You take care of customers above all else.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Combining a shortage of customers and employees as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic with the ongoing flux of health code restrictions, restaurants are struggling to drive traffic and relevance within respective customer bases. The advantages of hologram technology aren’t limited to novelty, either.

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Entertainment Social Media Customer Service Technology 485

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2021

So here is the good news: there will be ample opportunities in 2021 and beyond for chefs, cooks, managers, and service staff who recognize the immediacy of the challenge and the new skill set that will be required of successful players and leaders in the field. will find themselves in the winner’s circle. [] FLEXIBILITY. If this is your M.O.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 19, 2020

One of the most fundamental principles underpinning any business is to understand your customers; that way you tailor your offering around their needs. This blog has done a great job of teaching you how to spot fake followers to avoid getting scammed. Something like: “Hi [name], I’m the manager here at [restaurant name].

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

As the world quickly came to a screeching halt in the early months of 2020, restaurants quickly accelerated an already existing shift towards digitalization to adapt to customers' new safety and priorities. For some customers, digital touchpoints may be the only ones they have with your brand. Prioritize Digital Experiences.

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Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Customer Experience Online Ordering 508

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2021

Menus are shifting quickly to digital screens, promising operational efficiency and a consistent brand experience from dine-in to drive-thru. Unable to invite guests indoors, operators hurried to install workarounds such as menu enlargements in shop windows, or standup basic e-commerce online. Should your menu move to the cloud?

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 9, 2020

Here are some thoughts: [] NO ONE INDEPENDENT RESTAURANT CAN SOLVE THIS CHALLENGE: For the culture of restaurants to return – every operation must collaborate with others in their community to build an atmosphere of common purpose. When restaurants return they must understand that service and food are equal in importance to the guest.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Dine-in Sports 522

Culinary Cues

MAY 5, 2021

Some point to the industry itself as the primary culprit – an industry of service that rarely rests and job descriptions for a number of positions that are close to impossible to adequately fulfill – thus, chefs and managers have no real choice but to invest an obscene amount of time on the job in an attempt to meet the demands. Is this true?

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Hotels Employee Relations Coaching Training 475

Culinary Cues

JUNE 23, 2024

Those operations that resemble the caldrons of hell filled with arrogance, bullying, unprofessional behavior, and a lack of respect for people, product, and process is the same as categorizing musicians, athletes, business leaders, and politicians under a unified profile. Am I wagging a finger at those operations that perpetuate the negative?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 4, 2021

To ensure a restaurant’s GMB page is performing well, the page should be kept up to date and include current business address, hours of operation, services (dine-in, carry-out, delivery, etc.), phone number, website URL, type of payments accepted, menu items, and photos of the establishment.

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SEO Website Management Online Ordering Mobile Ordering 577

Culinary Cues

MAY 18, 2020

Whatever your end goal might be: Executive Chef in a fine dining operation, Corporate Chef, Sous Chef, Restaurant Manager, Entrepreneur, Research Chef, or Consultant – where ever you hope to land in the future – put that goal in writing. EVERY POSITION IN THE FOOD BUSINESS WILL HELP WITH YOUR CAREER – IF YOU BUILD IT INTO YOUR PLAN.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 3, 2023

Let me explain: A few years ago, (50 years ago) I had a conversation with a wonderful woman who owned and operated a successful neighborhood restaurant. Customers would like up, sometimes around the block, hoping for a seat in her rather small restaurant where she featured, what we called – blue plate specials. What was the ingredient?

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Hospitality Customer Experience Customer Service Small Business 466

Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2023

In small private entrepreneurships it is common for owner/operators to not take a steady salary so they might meet payroll or pay a vendor for recent deliveries. This is who we are, we are in the service business. If you want to help, then become a regular customer yourself. Restaurant week is just one example.

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Café Seasonal Menu Point of Sale Social Media 519

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

What needs to be addressed is: “ How do we build trust among customers, trust that the restaurant will keep them safe, and how do we generate enough sales and in turn – profit, to keep the operation moving forward? They know that at this point their primary job is to make the customer feel safe. Ask your staff!

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Kitchen Safety Back of House Front of House Customer Experience 430

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 3, 2020

Passion is not blind forever. [] THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS IS EVEN HARDER THAN WE THOUGHT: The pandemic has demonstrated to owners/operators just how very fragile their business is. This is a challenging combination for restaurant operators to compete with.

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Government Training Small Business Consumer Goods 495

Culinary Cues

APRIL 8, 2020

As a professional cook you know that survival and eventual success depends on succinct, effective communication with your peers, the operations chef, vendors, and guests. Eventually, your mind began to organize, prioritize, and visualize what needs to be done and develop a timing rhythm that drives your method of operation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In four years of operation, he’s doubled his sales every year, and today pulls in more than $475,000 a year. The UpFlip team interviewed the Vet Chef crew to find out, and for those questions that weren’t answered in the interview, you can find them on the UpFlip blog. You can go to your customers. Never Say No.

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Food Truck Food Food Safety Point of Sale 445

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 9, 2021

Wow visuals on the plate and in the dining room, wow views from every seat, wow service, and of course – wow flavors on the plate. Take care of your employees and vendors and they will take care of your paying customers. Somewhere in our internal job description is a desire, and even a need to build an environment of WOW!

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Front of House Customer Experience Dine-in Training 476

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 1, 2019

I enjoy taking it all in – talking with the server about the history of the place, watching kitchen staff concentrate on every plate, and absorbing the ambience and looking at the details that are always a reflection of who the people are that own and operate the business. The number one thing small business needs is to get more customers.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I see it through the eyes of the operator, the chef, the cook, server, and customer – it is a virus that continues to spread and grow exponentially. In the same light, the employee has a personal responsibility to constantly improve and learn about product, process, creativity, people, and service.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

So, what are the lessons offered and what should we learn: FROM THE EMPLOYER’S PERSPECTIVE: We are not prepared: Other businesses, as part of their operational strategy, build in scenario planning that helps to develop action plans for the expected and unsuspected. What if……happens? How will we react?”

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Culinary Cues

JULY 19, 2024

You can assess the quality of an operation and the effectiveness of a chef to lead a team within the first minutes of walking into a kitchen. Assessment is vividly apparent by simply viewing the integration of mise en place throughout the operation. Those first few steps into the kitchen will reveal the operation’s attention to detail.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 9, 2024

There is a deeper price to pay when looming issues like the labor shortage, rising costs of operation, an eroding passion for careers in the kitchen, and diminishing profits haunt our everyday operations. As was the case for generations, customers expect that ingredients come from the farmer, fisherman, rancher, and producer to you.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 7, 2021

This is defined in articles from local newspapers to the New York Times, from industry magazines and websites to social media, and from industry blogs to podcasts by the dozens – everyone states the problem, points a finger, and portrays the issue as someone else’s doing. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. So, what might the cause be?

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