Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Restaurants survive and thrive on the “early and late majority” that represents over 60 percent of the dining population. I can vividly remember a chef position at a fine dining operation that I walked into and faced planning my first signature menu. That is in our DNA, we can’t really help ourselves.

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Fine Dining Café Customer Experience Menu 439

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The aroma of a simmering veal stock, pans of bacon being pulled from the oven, fresh coffee brewing and pastries hot from the bake shop meld together like a cacophony of sound produced by a finely tuned orchestra. Cooks are busy at work with their own preparations as breakfast orders from the dining room arrive at a harrowing pace.

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Kitchen Safety Front of House Fine Dining Back of House 436

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I know how heartbreaking it is when the dining room is nearly empty, and how invigorating it is when it is full. Nevertheless we have always been blessed with choice when it comes to finding a place to eat. These are the places where memories are built and where customers become friends, and friendships last from generation to generation.

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Fine Dining Employee Relations Front of House Small Business 440

SpotOn

JULY 22, 2024

Full service restaurant concepts fall into two broad categories: casual dining and fine dining. Full service restaurant concepts fall into two broad categories: casual dining and fine dining. If you're a guest, it's good to know what to expect from a fine dining vs casual dining experience.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

How you play the game in the process of winning is critical, as is the sportsmanship that allows people to get past defeat with honor and grace while taking the time to positively recognize those who administered that defeat. Well-run organizations – in this case a kitchen, are built to win. This is what great organizations and great teams do.

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Fine Dining Coaching Dine-in Café 421

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. The restaurant industry is being hit extraordinarily hard, unlike any other time in recent history.

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White Paper Certification Food Safety Food Supply 520

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. It all matters – education level, income bracket, age range, frequency of dining, and food and wine preferences. [] KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO BE AND HOW YOU WANT TO BE PERCEIVED. Don’t try to be something that you are not.

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Fine Dining Front of House Customer Service Customer Experience 405

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 23, 2021

In the restaurant business there are really only two ways to view profit: a very small amount of profit balanced by very significant volume, or a significant amount of profit on far less volume. How you approach the design of your restaurant in this regard will determine nearly everything else. So what is contribution margin?

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Point of Sale Front of House Back of House Customer Experience 450

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Which type of tomato will present the most pronounced flavor of fine ripened, deeply refreshing acid/sweet balance on the sandwich and how can we ensure this consistently throughout the year? It would be difficult to find a more sinister, demoralizing, harmful, or self-destructive word than mediocre.

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Uniforms Fine Dining Small Business Customer Service 450

Culinary Cues

JUNE 14, 2022

fell in the category of “fine dining”. Now I mention these statistics because they will help to frame what the future may hold for the industry and those considering a career in kitchens and dining rooms across the country. Why would I choose to support a locally owned restaurant? 35 % of the overall male U.S.

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Fine Dining Food Supply Customer Service Presentation 471

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While Noma’s run as a Michelin restaurant is now at an end, there are many reasons why it doesn’t spell the end of fine dining cuisine as we know it. There’s a high cost in running fine dining restaurants, but the value rests in their place in society. How do we move forward from this?

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Fine Dining Technology Front of House Sustainability 197

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Chef Marc Meneau was such a chef – a powerful personality who elevated the dining experience – a chef who lived excellence every day in his restaurant L’Esperance in Vezelay, France. The dining room was perfectly appointed with fresh flowers, the finest tabletop details, and magnificent views of the L’Esperance gardens.

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Fine Dining Back of House Dine-in Presentation 363

Culinary Cues

APRIL 23, 2023

Fine, that may be the case but let’s just see. I’ve been cooking for 15years now; I should be the chef.” If it’s your time and you’re ready then make it happen, find your spot, push for the job, step up and show them what you’ve got. If you think the answer is YES, then you are not ready to be the chef.

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Seasonal Menu Leadership Training Fine Dining 492

Culinary Cues

JUNE 26, 2021

Are auto manufacturers fine with poorly designed assembly lines? Are hospital administrators fine with operating rooms that are not quite right? Are operators of meat packing plants fine with inefficient cutting lines? In what other industry are developers inclined to accept built in problems with design?

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Design Fine Dining Uniforms Waste 381

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

How powerful is a complete dining experience and what exactly is it? An owner for whom I worked years ago referred to it as the Total Dining Experience and I have held on to this concept ever since. Is your ventilation system designed to push positive kitchen odors to the dining room or outside the entrance?

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Fine Dining Dine-in Front of House Design 328

Culinary Cues

APRIL 25, 2021

At the other extreme – an extraordinarily prepared, multi-course meal, touched by accomplished cooks, presented on a plate of fine china, in a pristine environment, with attentive service and complemented by exceptional wines will reveal all that food might attempt to be. I find it very interesting how diverse the food experience is.

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Food Fine Dining Café Customer Experience 428

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Indoor Dining Blueprint Governor Cuomo recently announced their new blueprint for indoor dining , which somewhat opens up indoor-only restaurants to the public. And restaurants also pose possible risks, concentrations of people inside [for] indoor dining. What support is available for New York restaurants 1.

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2020 Restaurant Law Fine Dining Outdoor 285

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 14, 2022

No matter where you go or what you buy, technology has touched nearly every part of dining out right now. Does that well-known rule of 20 percent for sit-down dining apply to counter-service, takeout, or other orders? You tap your card for coffee, a drink, or a candy bar. If I choose not to tip on a screen, it’s a sin of commission.

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Social Media Fine Dining 2022 2015 359

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

When you start building that “bucket list” of restaurants around the world where you must dine before you die. What is important is that at the end of the week there is some cash in your pocket, albeit – not very much. For a few, at some point that changes. It is that a-ha moment that sets the stage for cooking to move past being a job.

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Fine Dining Food Order Back of House Uniforms 403

Culinary Cues

MAY 20, 2024

It’s been 89 years since Escoffier stood in front of a range for the last time, yet his presence is still felt by professional cooks and chefs. In every office where I sat over the past 30 some odd years, has hung this picture of the master craftsman, leader, and ambassador of proper cooking and kitchen organization.

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Hotels Front of House Fine Dining Back of House 282

Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It makes no difference if it is a 4-diamond restaurant offering fine dining, a quality pizza shop, a bakery, or a hospital foodservice – discipline, pride, and results are closely aligned. A well-run kitchen is not a free-form environment where every cook does his or her own thing or moves to the beat of his or her own drum.

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Uniforms Airlines Food Order Fine Dining 468

7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

While you must follow the strict guidelines to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, that’s not to say you can’t take advantage of an empty restaurant to improve your knowledge of restaurant management, running a business, and creating a recipe for success when you eventually get back to business as usual. Published: 2009 ?? Goodreads: 4.09

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Book Management Management Restaurant Law 370

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The good news is that restaurants are beginning to see an increase in sales as more and more customers return to in person dining in addition to their new habit of ordering for home delivery. There are a number of possible solutions, but not all of them positive. SKILL SET: A cook’s repertoire will need to expand.

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Compost Fine Dining Waste Café 448

Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Everything else will come to you as you fine tune those skills and the knowledge to be exceptional at what you do. [] BE YOUR OWN WORST CRITIC: Don’t wait for someone else to critique your work – assess your performance and compare it to those benchmarks. So, here are some golden rules that will help you to move in the right direction.

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Leadership Fine Dining Workshop Training 395

7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2019

Managing your restaurants capacity is crucial as it impacts your profits, sales, customer service, and the dining experience. From there, you can make vital decisions about price, service capacity, table turnover, and your menu to boost revenue and profits. Revenue management is not a new concept. Control table turnover. A tense atmosphere.

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Management Management Airlines Customer Service 408

Culinary Cues

APRIL 26, 2020

Having your chef walk through the dining room and connect with guests is a way to make customers feel special and provides an opportunity for them to ask serious questions about the menu. There is so much to think about, so many decisions to make, and so much angst about what the future holds. Everything helps.

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Guest Recovery Kitchen Safety Customer Service Food Safety 319

Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

It’s a disease that seems to creep into the mainstream; a disease that can be kept in check if there is a desire to do so; a disease, in other words, within our ability to thwart. This disease is highly contagious without concern for age, gender, socio-economic status, education level, or factors related to a person’s focus on a healthy lifestyle.

Leadership 390

Leadership Food Truck Employee Relations Training 390

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A fine-dining restaurant with an emphasis on ingredients may present the menu simply, with descriptions of where the ingredients are from. Cheap digital menu marketing that captures a share of online dining demand. Fast-casual restaurants are a new trendy concept that combines fast food and casual dining. Menu design.

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Fast Casual Food Truck Casual Customer Service 370

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

Bigger isn’t always better. Bigger brings a significant upswing in headaches, unforeseen challenges, an inability to flex, and long-term costs. Bigger is less predictable and much more difficult to control and bigger takes cooks and chefs away from what they love to do, what attracted them to the trade in the beginning – to cook from the heart.

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Seating Front of House Back of House Cash Management 452

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Guests are dining out more often than last year and and rewarding great service, with the highest tips at bars and fine dining restaurants, according to hospitality industry data from Lightspeed Commerce Inc. percent) and fine dining restaurants (19.9 percent year-over-year at fine dining and 3.53

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Fast Casual Fine Dining Employee Relations Customer Service 197

Culinary Cues

MARCH 9, 2021

The garde manger must be conservative with portion sizes while affording the greatest impact on the dining experience. 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. This is the home of Garde Manger, or pantry, or simply – the cold kitchen.

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Presentation Fine Dining Seasonal Menu Design 399

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Long before the restaurant chains of today, decades prior to the birth of fine dining, experience dining, and molecular gastronomy, there were neighborhood cafes that were part of small communities across the country. Ah, but the food and conversation were consistently good, plentiful, and in-expensive.

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White Paper Hospitality Fine Dining Reference 332

7 Shifts

AUGUST 20, 2024

However, with fewer customers dining out weekly , restaurants must ensure that they can serve each diner quickly and satisfy them enough that they’ll want to return. Tracking and implementing strategies to improve this metric will allow you to maximize your dining space and generate more revenue.

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Online Ordering Fast Casual Fine Dining Seating 221

Culinary Cues

MARCH 25, 2021

This desire is a spark of enthusiasm to accomplish goals, exceed expectations, know no barriers to entry, and reach for the stars. We possess this desire universally but experience has shown us that it can be pushed aside by parents, friends, supervisors, peers, and even by our own lack of confidence in potential outcomes.

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Communication Coaching Fine Dining Influencer 442

7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2020

Live-work-dine neighborhoods do not generate enough outside traffic to sustain a business if it is not designed correctly” — Daniel Reed Hospitality 2. Are you opening a restaurant in 2020? Congrats! ?? And good luck. It’s going to be the ride of your life. Advice for opening a restaurant from restaurateurs 1. Dawn Tyndall, Clean Juice.

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2020 Hiring Cash Management Education 335

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With those stats in mind, Causeway Solutions conducted consumer research* on today’s dining trends compared to our research over the past few years. In August 2023, only eight percent of consumers we surveyed say they do not eat out, so dining out is “in” again. 62 percent rarely or very rarely enjoy fine dining.

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Fast Casual Fine Dining 2023 Casual 212

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Chefs and cooks may avoid walking through those swinging doors into the dining room because they fear that vulnerability. Some who work in kitchens can distance themselves from the overwhelming responsibility of the cook or chef, but to others it is a heavy weight to carry. If this is not their norm, then pay attention.

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Employee Relations Training Fine Dining Take-out 396