Culinary Cues

JANUARY 26, 2025

If you enjoy dining out, its time you gave some thought to what it takes to prepare and serve those items that give you pleasure on the plate. Immigration has been the hot topic in political circles for decades with polarized opinions about the breadth of the problem and both conservative and radical approaches debated. are immigrants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The research stems from in-person chef interviews and a nationwide survey of more than 400 restaurant owners and operators spanning 47 states with respondents ranging from fine dining establishments to fast-casual venues, breweries, and caterers. "This Revenue growth in 2024 was largely driven by menu price adjustments.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

There are many choices in life, one road vs. another, good vs. great, mediocre vs. acceptable, truth vs. lies we choose to move towards one or the other and live with those decisions. In business, those choices can lead to success or failure, prominence of subservience, profit or loss. Is that what you believe? Is that how you want to be perceived?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Businesses have been forced to pivot away from on-premises dining to offer on-line ordering and take-out services. Whether fine-dining or fast casual, great service now revolves around the customer experience you bring to every interaction. Prepare for Changing Conditions. Across the country, openings and closings are in flux.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

However, productivity is more easily trained than managed. In a survey by Toast , 46% of restaurateurs listed hiring, training, and retaining staff as their biggest challenge. Solution: Training from hands-on management The results and repercussions of a disconnected restaurant staff are glaringly apparent.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

Every day, youre juggling staff, food quality, inventory, customer service, purchasing, and moreall while trying to cultivate a dining experience that wows your customers enough to keep them coming back. Its tough, and cant be done passively.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The premiumization of tea is a natural extension to what has been taking place in fine wine, specialty coffee, craft spirits and beer over the past several decades. Really, wherever food and beverage has an intentional focus on quality and customer experience, fine tea has a rightful place – just like wine and craft beverages.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2020

Airflow within restaurants should flow from cleaner sources to dirtier sources – from dining areas to kitchens, restrooms to pick up / delivery spaces and more. In a post COVID-19 world, restaurant design must evolve and adapt to the new normal. Architectural Considerations in HVAC.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Those who struggle the most are the polished casual and fine dining restaurants who thrived on the in-person guest experience they delivered. When dining rooms closed early on during COVID, they moved to an off-premise, to-go, take-out only model. They are thriving. That was terrific. Implement Innovative Technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

Gen Z and millennials are likely to return to in-restaurant dining before older guests; and each group will have different concerns. Restaurants play an important role in our lives and in our communities; often where we celebrate birthdays, graduations, first dates, and major life moments. Safety and Trust.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The normalcy of customers coming in the doors for a night of dining or even a casual lunch feels like a vision of the distant past. As much as complete closures and stay-at-home orders have harmed the restaurant industry, reopening has come with fits and starts, presenting a new litany of obstacles for dining establishments to overcome.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

A training investment in your people is an investment in the success of the business. There is a direct correlation. [] WHAT YOU EXPECT AND MEASURE IS WHAT YOU GET Define what excellence means in your operation, show it, teach it, train to it, insist on it, measure it, and reward it. Look around and you can readily see the results.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Because each person is different and may not have been trained well in food preparation, the level of waste can be extremely high. History will show that COVID was the line of demarcation for the hospitality industry in the 21st century. Since COVID, technology in the restaurant industry has moved at lightning speed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Running a successful, finely-tuned takeout operation is a complex and challenging endeavor no longer relegated to businesses basing their models primarily on delivery sales. The “Ding!” While perhaps a consistent feature of your daily business, they are not your employees. Let your compassion and preparedness shine.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2024

Restaurants will focus on creating story-driven dining experiences, harnessing technology and local partnerships to deepen emotional engagement with guests, according to the "2024 State of the Industry: Future of In-Restaurant Dining" report by Incisiv in collaboration with Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

hadynyah/Getty Images A local food expert provides the ideal culinary tour of Sri Lanka, from the islands palm tree-lined beaches to its rolling highland tea plantations Floating just below the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka is a stunningly verdant island cloaked in jungles. Travel around and youll be rewarded. Whats the food in Sri Lanka like?

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yes, it’s true – when the Michelin Guide decided to recognize some exceptional street food vendors with Michelin Stars, they broke the barrier of snobbery noting that excellence can happen outside of traditional fine dining. If fine dining is your objective, then make the commitment knowing what’s involved.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 23, 2025

At this point, all it takes is one lousy dining experience to sever the connection you once had with a customer who potentially spent thousands of dollars at your restaurant every year. Does every cook prepare each dish exactly the same as the chef trained them to? Sales: 80% of sales typically come from 20% of clients. Thats huge!

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences. Read the first part, here. For the second part, click here.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

To help ensure the survival of these restaurants, many of which are family owned, the PR industry has banded together to create a campaign called "Dining Bonds." The dining bonds are being offered by participating restaurants across the country at a suggested savings of 25 percent when purchased. . "We're More than 2.45

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2023

Although there are no desks and chairs, students that take this course are learning real, hands-on experience within the dining room and kitchen. Lastly, between the kitchen and the wine rooms sits a luxe private dining room that can sit a party of 12. The facility opened in 2022. How is the project multi-functional?

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2023

The dining room opens in 15 minutes and the adrenaline is starting to churn. At 5:30 the dining room doors open, and early bird diners begin to arrive. Cooks are now bouncing from foot-to-foot waiting for the chime of the printer as orders in the dining room are being taken by servers who put on a show face that projects calm.

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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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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

It is important to always keep in mind that dining out is still a luxury, even though more and more families have built it into their lifestyle. Whether a quick service restaurant, family dining, food truck, or white tablecloth fine dining operation – there will always be some level of price sensitivity.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 25, 2024

Blake Aguillard and Trey Smith started with $30,000 and no outside investors when they opened Saint-Germain in New Orleans' Bywater neighborhood in 2018. The duo transfomed a dilapidated cottage themselves entirely by hand into an intimate 12-seat restaurant that has received numerous accolades. It did in multiple ways. Zero debt is zero risk.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 26, 2020

The most challenging part of difficult times is living in the moment. Today is what gives us the most angst since we live in uncharted territory with all of the unpredictable factors that align with it. Ah, but TODAY is the tough one. How will we get through this, what else can possibly happen, will we survive to see those brighter times?”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

“In 2025, restaurants are walking the fine line between automation and hospitality,” said Ming-Tai Huh, Head of Food & Beverage at Square. “In 2025, restaurants are walking the fine line between automation and hospitality,” said Ming-Tai Huh, Head of Food & Beverage at Square.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There could be some lasting savings, such as decreased congestion in drive-thru or less interior space dedicated to dining room. Curbside also means more packaging, more training, and more room for miscommunication. How do we love thee, curbside pick-up? Let us count the ways. For the moment, curbside is a necessity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2023

Ignoring these licenses and regulations might attract hefty penalties and fines, so make sure you’re aware of the local, state, and federal regulations before opening up for business. Invest sufficient time and money in creating a dining area that customers will find charming and hospitable.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the latest delivery platform consolidation, the release of PPP loan information and ServSafe Dining Commitment. Uber To Acquire Postmates. billion in an all-stock transaction that brings together two top players in third-party delivery, Uber will acquire Postmates.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

They hire, train, critique, support, celebrate, and rally behind the members of the team that has been built and push each individual to contribute his or her best – always. Well-run organizations – in this case a kitchen, are built to win. This is what great organizations and great teams do. United in purpose is the call to arms.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Full-service restaurant, fine dining. Tips paid to those who collect. Servers, sometimes other FOH staff. Incentivizes servers. Possibility of an uneven tip out and wage gaps. Even tip splitting. All eligible staff. Even and fair, provides camaraderie amongst staff. Some staff may not hold themselves to a high standard of service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 11, 2023

From fast-food joints to fine dining are leveraging innovative payment methods to increase food services efficiency and enhance customer satisfaction. The good news is that restaurant owners can streamline the checkout process and increase operational efficiencies by leveraging the latest payment technology. trillion by 2025.

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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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