Ken Burgin

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here are 40 training activities for chefs to run for waiters and front-of-house staff within a 15-minute session. They are designed to be engaging and educational and build a competitive spirit. General Food Tasting and Knowledge Training 1. Vegetable Tasting and Knowledge Training 1. beet greens, carrot tops).

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Hot Schedules

MAY 10, 2021

Seasonal Staff Playbook: Hiring, Training & Retaining Great Teams. PLAY 2: Onboard & Train Your Seasonal Staff. Without proper training and engagement opportunities, your seasonal staff can keep sales in the minor leagues. Train and prepare staff to serve guests in a high-speed, high-volume environment.

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Crunchtime

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As essential functions in multi-unit restaurants, training and operations are inherently intertwined and greatly influence the customer experience. Educating employees to perform job tasks correctly, efficiently, and confidently is key to maintaining quality operations and customer experiences.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2024

One of a restaurant manager’s primary responsibilities is hiring, training, and scheduling staff so that the business runs smoothly. Step-by-step process to becoming a restaurant manager Becoming a successful restaurant manager involves getting relevant education and training and building hands-on experience in the industry.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

During an election year there is always a focus on what both parties call: “kitchen table issues” – the cost of groceries, mortgage, insurance, child-care, energy, and education, and how much is left for disposable income to be spent on the things we would like to do vs. what we have to do.

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Open for Business

MARCH 7, 2023

Restaurant training is one of the most important things an owner can put into place. Well-trained teams mean shifts run smoothly and guests are happy with service. With ongoing training, you improve your chances of talented employees growing professionally as the restaurant or restaurant group grows.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 11, 2024

Training and education around hygiene and food safety continue to be a standard, but there are further steps managers can take to guarantee the safest, most hygienic, and highest-quality experience for guests. In this context, it’s crucial to regularly train employees in things like hand hygiene.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2024

For the first time this year, it also includes an educational component in which R ichard Sandoval Hospitality(RSH) aims to teach 60,000 early learners about the importance of bees through a signature in-school lesson plan in partnership with Title-1 elementary schools and through Chef’s children’s book on food sustainability.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

High turnover not only disrupts business operations but also leads to increased costs and time spent on hiring and training new staff. This flexibility allows them to pursue passions outside of work, such as culinary education, or to enjoy a better work-life balance. With an average turnover rate of 79.6%

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Luckily, there are proven ways to help build a solid, positive food safety culture, including boosting trust, improving communication, educating employees, and relying on tech tools, including Artificial Intelligence. Six important ways to create and maintain a strong food safety culture include: 1.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 15, 2021

Just as the restaurant industry evolves, so too must the industry of education. If you teach in a live restaurant environment on your campus is it operated with five times as many cooks in training as would be possible in a real restaurant? When this change does not occur then the strong shall survive and the weak shall perish.

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Ken Burgin

JUNE 6, 2023

I love using ChatGPT to develop training activities and materials for restaurant and cafe employees. I’ve used it here to brainstorm ideas for training modules for waiters, managers, cooks, head chefs, and baristas. This will help train staff in customer service skills and problem-solving.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 16, 2022

For a period of years, we were sending 50 students to work the grueling, yet highly educational two-weeks of the Tennis Open. To this day, those students rate those two weeks as some of the most important in their education. He did, however, believe in support, training, mentoring, and empathy. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Establishing a complete customer experience strategy, educating personnel in all procedures, and giving discounts and promotions that make your customers feel valued and ready to return are all ways to assure an exceptional customer experience. 4 Ways To Train Your Bar Staff To Deliver Good Customer Experience. Training And Barback .

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Perfect Daily Grind

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This can be done in a number of ways, including training and creating personal development plans. When it comes to career development], a barista should be thinking beyond the roastery and into other areas, such as supply chain management, sustainability, and training opportunities,” Brett says.

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The Restaurant Times

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Hence, it is now imperative to train your new bar staff to comply with COVID-19 protocols and keep the drinks flowing. . Now that the bars are back to normal, the need to train staff for COVID-appropriate behaviour has increased owing to the safety of customers and premium service quality. Correct Usage Of Protective Equipment .

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2023

Restaurants need to zero in on finding out what they are really good at, buy the best quality raw materials, train their cooks to execute consistently great delivery of attractive and tasty food, and deliver it hot or cold as required. Plan, equip, train, evaluate, educate, and celebrate each and every employee.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Finding the right concept, building in the right location, finding, and training the best staff, nurturing the team, and creating a menu that reflects the needs of the guest and the passion of the cook is only the beginning. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. First, allow me to address the dichotomy of the artist/accountant.

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Sling

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

At first glance, you may think that employee training is all about teaching your employees to perform their job according to your standards and procedures. Provide the right kind of training for your team and your business will run smoother than ever before. Effective Employee Training Methods. 1) Online Employee Training.

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EATER

APRIL 8, 2021

It is also a nonprofit that has spent 30 years training at-risk youth exiting the juvenile detention system to work in hospitality. So the staff and the 15 young people working that night spent most of the evening doing extra training and cleaning to keep busy. Café Momentum is more than just a restaurant, though. Several U.S.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The purpose of colleges is to teach, prepare, train and connect students with the rest of their lives. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. How many of these challenges might be addressed if all of these silo groups actually viewed themselves as part of the same business and worked together? The question is – are they willing to change?

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Margin Edge

JULY 26, 2023

Online financial training can provide valuable support in this area. By investing in financial training for your leadership team, you can ensure everyone is on the same page and equipped with the knowledge and skills to make informed financial decisions. Online financial training caters to a variety of needs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2024

How important is continual training? To maintain consistency across stores, brands should implement the following best practices: Robust Onboarding Training Program : Develop a comprehensive onboarding process that includes detailed training on brand standards, guidelines, voice, tone, and standard operating procedures.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 18, 2023

These are the elements of your education that can only be gained by being there. This is your education, your real education. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Nothing can take the place of those moments – they are the real teacher. This is what separates the good from the great and the cook from the chef.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Convince your restaurant to organize a softball or pick-up basketball team, or even install a few pieces of weight training equipment in the basement of your business. Yes – a well-trained and educated employee has the ability to move elsewhere, but that is what makes you and your restaurant attractive to a steady stream of new cooks.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2020

Educate yourself If there’s one thing to know when opening a new business—especially a new restaurant—it’s that there’s no such thing as “too much research.” Educating yourself and thoroughly researching every aspect of your new restaurant and your local landscape is only going to help you with fleshing out your plan.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 23, 2023

As if that weren’t enough, the menu and each morsel of food presented represents the chef’s life of experiences, his or her family history, the cuisine of their forefathers, every chef who contributed to their training, and everything that they believe in – as it pertains to food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 7, 2024

He is also on the advisory board of CFESA, the largest education, training and resource organization supporting commercial food equipment service technicians. This can be overcome with technology, training and education. PC : Hopefully they have a well-trained, prepared risk management team that is very proactive.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2023

Table of Contents Acknowledge the challenges Education about psychological safety Open communication Prioritize workplace mental health Create a healthy workplace for everyone It starts with acknowledging the challenges. The next step is education about psychological safety.

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 25, 2020

Regardless of restaurant format, operators are giving paramount importance to train their staff to comply with the health guidelines. How To Train Your Staff To Comply With The Health Guidelines. Train Your Restaurant Employees About The Safety Procedures.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 20, 2024

How is your kitchen organized, how much time are you willing to invest in training, how do you (the chef and owner) present yourself as a leader and mentor, how serious are you about the right way to cook, how open are you to sharing, and how effective are you at building a team of professionals who look and act the part?

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Culinary Cues

MAY 4, 2022

One would assume that you dedicated the time and effort to your education, otherwise graduation might not be within your grasp. Experience is ultimately the best educator. [] TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN – YOUR EDUCATION WILL. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. This is where you are right now. CAFÉ Talks Podcast.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 30, 2022

In my experience, when labor issues arise, training and education of the crew are the first things to suffer. It’s impossible to track training for all these employees as they come and go unless you have reliable systems. Make sure that your team is trained and that you have documentation to prove it.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Providing mental health awareness and resilience training to all employees can help promote a supportive work environment. It is equally important to educate and consistently remind your employees about their available mental health resources and benefits.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courtesy of the Lactation Network The Lactation Network’s new program will offer training to restaurant staff across the nation Restaurants are, famously, for eating. The Lactation Network set out to establish a set of standards for restaurants to implement to ensure that they’re being welcoming to breastfeeding parents.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 29, 2024

but food is a bit visceral, and we’ve been trained to buy it in a certain manner. but food is a bit visceral, and we’ve been trained to buy it in a certain manner. I think education is the key. Bring marketing along for the ride! Surge pricing can make a ton of logical sense. Yes, and yes!

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you create an educational, supportive, uplifting, and inclusive environment for your staff from dishwasher to line cook, and server to sommelier then they will feel great about their job and in turn build those experiences for a guest – every guest. Look at every dishwasher as your next cook in training. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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