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Ready To Sell? Maybe You Should Be

Modern Restaurant Management

Even the menu I created was designed to be simple so that a future, less experienced owner would never have to be under the thumb of a high-end, temperamental chef. Refer back to Rule #11, "Control Your Controllable Costs." Focus on areas like uniforms, necessary repairs, and maintaining cleanliness. This is critical.

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Menu Engineering: The Science of Optimizing Your Menu to Maximize Profit

7 Shifts

Menu engineering: while the name might suggest you need to go to college at MIT to be good at it, is actually a common and essential task that all restaurateurs should regularly undertake. Menu engineering can be simplified as the steps taken to increase the profitability of a restaurant menu. Menu Pricing and 2.

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DON’T SETTLE FOR MEDIOCRITY

Culinary Cues

The Japanese would refer to them as companies focused on “Kaisen” (a pursuit of constant improvement). Create a similar checklist for every product on your menu, regardless of the type of operation or the prices on you charge and you will find a path from mediocrity to excellence. It is your job to SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF.

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CHEFS ARE ALL IN AND ALL OUT

Culinary Cues

By “all in” I am referring to total commitment, building your life around the demands of the job, and most significantly to do so while being oblivious to the impact that this commitment has on other aspect of one’s life. Now his day had come.

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A CHEF’S MANIFESTO – 2021

Culinary Cues

Preparing a menu? On occasion you may need to make adjustments so that an employee can work through their challenges (schedule adjustment, change assignments, send them home, offer advice, refer them to someone who might help, etc.). Some refer to this as delegation, but behind delegation of duties must lay a willingness to trust.

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CLOSING THE RINGS OF THE TOTAL RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE

Culinary Cues

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. Have you established a uniform and grooming standard in your restaurant and is it equitably enforced? When planning menu items how much attention is paid to the combination of smells on the plate?

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ANYTHING WORTH DOING IS WORTH DOING EXTREMELY WELL

Culinary Cues

Competition is healthy if you use it as a reference to improve. Check out your competition, study the restaurants that surprise and thrill people, spend time there studying their methods, work there if you can, ask people why they like them so much and then get to work learning how to be even better.