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Why Recipe Writing is Pivotal for Professional Kitchens

Modern Restaurant Management

A professional kitchen’s main responsibility is to turn out a consistent, quality product so whether you’re working in a restaurant, a manufacturing facility or any other food preparation business, if you can’t turn out a quality, consistent product, you are unlikely to have a successful business.

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Opening a Restaurant: Steps to Take and Common Pitfalls to Avoid

Modern Restaurant Management

Draft a Business Plan Business plans are documents that contain all the necessary information surrounding your restaurant and how it will operate. The business plan will become your go-to document when you run into operational problems and will guide you through turbulent times.

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Your Customers Are Part of the Team: How to Keep Them Involved

Modern Restaurant Management

For restaurants, this information could range from cooking, dining, and food preparation tips to local ingredient sourcing guides. Research from Harvard Business Review and other trusted institutions have all documented the importance of developing strong emotional bonds with your customers. Create Emotional Bonds.

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Measuring KPIs for Food Safety Success in Holiday Menu Items, Off-Premise Catering, LTOs, and Beyond

Modern Restaurant Management

Prioritize the most critical food safety items on your scorecard. Establish documented monitoring of critical control points at regular daily intervals. Document the KPIs. Reinforce the KPIs and the food safety goals that will help achieve them. Determine clear and actionable responses based on the ratings/scores.

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Getting More Bang for Your Legal Buck

Modern Restaurant Management

And because restaurant owners are so busy, they often gloss over these documents without considering the potential impact on their business. Have you developed unique food preparation methods or equipment? Even low value exchanges of goods or services have an underlying contract (or terms and conditions on a website).

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Back to the ?Grind? ? Restaurant Reopening Guidelines and PPP Update

Modern Restaurant Management

The documents released today will help small businesses seek forgiveness at the conclusion of the eight week covered period, which begins with the disbursement of their loans. Addition of a new exemption from the loan forgiveness reduction for borrowers who have made a good-faith, written offer to rehire workers that was declined.

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Streamlined Menus in the Onboarding Process

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Furthermore, the streamlined menu promotes consistency in food preparation and presentation, a critical element in customer satisfaction and maintaining reputation. This uniformity in food preparation and presentation is a hallmark of quality assurance, instilling confidence in both the staff and the diners.