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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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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Front of House Back of House Education Leadership 380

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

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

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. Restaurant employees typically apply to make some money to pay the bills while they pursue higher education or other ventures.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 25, 2024

A flexible workforce education program can start workers on that path. Meeting the Moment through Workforce Education The restaurant industry’s low barrier to entry has long fostered a belief that employees are easily replaceable, but a tightening U.S. Thankfully, the workforce education landscape has evolved.

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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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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

To Fran Peroni who was my first cooking skills teacher and later peer educator who helped me build the first culinary curriculum for Paul Smith’s College. To Mary Petersen who helped me to grow my network of exceptional educators – people who always make me realize that I still have so much to learn. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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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

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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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

APRIL 7, 2022

The chef is the orchestrator who brings together and hopefully leads an incredibly talented and dedicated team of marvelous technicians. [] Training and supporting the kitchen team is my primary responsibility. Every minute spent in teaching, training, mentoring, and lifting up that team is an investment in the future of the restaurant.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 7, 2020

When restaurateurs offer their employees opportunities for continuing education, they show them that they are invested in their future at the restaurant. You can provide staff with professional development opportunities through online courses , cross training, and shadowing. How can you gamify learning?

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Employee Relations FOH BOH Certification 349

7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2021

A pre-shift meeting is, simply, a meeting that occurs before meal service where the manager gathers the team to go over updates, train them, and get the team excited and motivated for the upcoming shift. They also serve as a place to offer short training sessions for new practices, taste new dishes and connect with them team.

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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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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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2024 Social Media Insurance Leadership 335

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This reduces turnover, lowers recruitment and training costs, and substantially improves the quality of the workforce and guest experience. If you’d like to continue to learn more, please schedule a one-on-one wage model training , or join us for our RAISE Member Call on Feb 28, 2023 at 10 am PST. But they are important.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When staff are unhappy, you lose more than just the cost of hiring and training. Help develop their career When restaurateurs offer their employees opportunities for continuing education, they show them that they are invested in their future at the restaurant. People are the heart of the restaurant.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

Buy quality beans, grind them on premise, train your servers to properly brew, or better yet – hire a barista to take care of that. The three price points can be a tool for your service staff to educate and upsell. Do it right! Serve it in a pot or French press, warm the milk and use quality sugar cubes rather than packets.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 26, 2020

If your customers have become accustomed to your take-out or delivery service during the virus, then you must give serious thought to keeping these options and making them exceptional. [] BUILD IN EDUCATION AS A VALUE BENEFIT. Everything helps. This may not be the time to try and show how uniquely creative you can be with your menu.

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Guest Recovery Kitchen Safety Customer Service Food Safety 319

7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

It's up to the restaurant manager to maintain a warm, welcoming atmosphere and train staff to do the same. But it's up to you to ensure you're using the best kind for each of these areas, become fluent in how to use them, and know how to train your staff if it's a technology they'll be using.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 29, 2024

Certainly, the restaurant and the chef have a responsibility to train, but the individual cook can take that training to a new level if they are willing to seek out every opportunity to learn and grow. These skills will take time and dedication to master – start today!

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Kitchen Safety Guest Recovery Uniforms Food Safety 395

7 Shifts

AUGUST 27, 2020

Our research from over 1,900 restaurant professionals shows that the main reasons employees quit are due to poor training, bad relationships with managers, and lack of team-building activities. Doesn’t it make sense to create a restaurant employee handbook that encourages a positive workplace culture through teamwork and training?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In this Q&A, Travis Larrier, Solutions and Strategy Director at InStride, provides insights on how investing in employee education can give a boost to talent acquisition and retention strategies. How are brands using education to attract and retain workers? What impact does a modern approach to workforce education have?

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Culinary Cues

MAY 20, 2020

The same applies to all facets of the food business – from culinary education to farming, from distribution to catering, and from contract food operations in business complexes to theme parks with thousands of potential visitors every day. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Change for the right reason is a roadmap to recovery.

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Kitchen Safety Customer Experience Customer Service Education 346

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Collect data on the age, income, family size, and education level of people in your area. Train your restaurant staff to remind customers to give their feedback as well as submit the comment cards right away to the one in charge. Train your servers to strike up friendly conversations and report back interesting insights.

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Marketing Social Media SEO Customer Service 370

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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7 Shifts

JANUARY 14, 2020

Between writing and posting a job description, interviewing candidates, onboarding, and training, replacing just one employee costs restaurants about $3,500. Incorporate your newfound values in your hiring, training, and performance reviews. Why does turnover matter so much? It takes a toll on your operational budget and staff morale.

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Loyalty Program Front of House Back of House Customer Experience 367

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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Sustainability Education Training Social Media 189

Culinary Cues

JUNE 29, 2022

They were gained working with people whom I had to depend on, people from all kinds of backgrounds: ethnic, educational, race, gender, and age. Some of us may have gained knowledge through trade school or college, but many simply placed their education in the hands of hard work and patience. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Combine this with the cost of a culinary or hospitality education and the 30-year payback to become debt free and many young students are turning their backs on a restaurant career. [] LABOR WILL BE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Unfortunately, staffing and supply issues make large menus impossible to maintain.

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Food Supply Employee Relations Kitchen Safety Social Media 429

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 3, 2023

This may have been the most important lesson I ever received, and I have carried it with me through more than 50 years as a chef, manager, educator, and consultant. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. This love is what we call “hospitality”. Hospitality is not something you do; it is who you are. It is absent when something happens “TO” you.

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Hospitality Customer Experience Customer Service Small Business 388

Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 20, 2021

They had the same upbringing and same education, yet their lives ended up completely different. And since you’re recording videos for marketing, you might as well make some training videos for the new team that you’ll have soon. One man is a hard worker and living paycheck to paycheck, the other is rich beyond measure.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2020

That restaurant plate is their collective chance to showcase their work as much as it is a canvas for the chef. [] RESTAURATEURS AND CHEFS ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF EDUCATION. Whether for business or pleasure, people have a need and desire to travel by plane, train, and automobile. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Travel Small Business Point of Sale Back of House 380

Culinary Cues

JUNE 22, 2020

I worked with a chef/educator who during his classes on plate presentation made students forage through the nearby woods for branches, leaves, stones, moss, and natures mushrooms to create plate presentations from Nature’s floor. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. In most every case – the chef is inspired by what they see in nature.

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Food Presentation Leadership Café 444

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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Culinary Cues

MAY 9, 2021

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students, focused employers, and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.” -Bob PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER Harvest America Ventures, LLC. These results create the environment for that same person to want to work hard and enjoy the feeling of accomplishment.

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