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10 Differences Between Cooking at Home and in a Restaurant
If you’re a good cook at home, and often have guests over or cook for others, you have undoubtedly had someone tell you that you should open your own restaurant. It’s a compliment, sure, but if you hear it enough, you may be tempted to actually want to do it. How hard can it be?FIND OUT MORE |
Understanding the Needs of Different Customer Types
As a restaurant owner or server, you will be faced with varying customer types. To be successful, it is important to accommodate everyone, from young children to vegetarians, to special needs. Read on to learn how you can make sure you are providing the best experience for your customers, by understanding the needs of differentFIND OUT MORE |
The Simplest Tools Are the Most Important: Cutlery
Whether you are an amateur or professional chef, you probably know that chopping and dicing is one of the most important tasks when it comes to cooking. How to get the job done may be up for debate in some circles, but most professionals agree that good knives are the key to impressive cooking skills.FIND OUT MORE |
Making Cooking Fun For Kids
For many parents, cooking is a chore; something that has to be done every day to feed your family whether you feel like it or not. You know your kids have to eat, but it can be difficult after a long day to force yourself to cook meals from scratch, even if you want to.FIND OUT MORE |
Why Your Staff Needs to Know Your Menu Well and How to Ensure That They Do
If you’ve never owned a restaurant, you may think that the only thing that is important for success is that your guests rave about the food. While having well prepared, delicious food is an important factor, it’s not all that matters. Having a well trained, professionally dressed staff that knows your menu inside and outFIND OUT MORE |
10 Things To Know Before Hiring Wait Staff
You’ve made your dream of opening a restaurant: Congratulations! The hard part is out of the way. Or is it? Unfortunately, opening the doors is only half the battle. It will get easier as you learn the ropes and understand the business, but some things never seem to be easy. One of those is hiring,FIND OUT MORE |
Happy Employees Equal More Profits: 10 Tips on Keeping Your Staff Happy
As a restaurant owner/manager, one of the most difficult problems you will have, hands down, is finding and keeping reliable employees. Working in a restaurant is never easy, no matter what your job is, and with restaurants on every corner of every city, you can lose good employees quickly if they don’t feel appreciated. StartupFIND OUT MORE |
So You Want to Open a Restaurant: Read This First
Many people dream of owning a restaurant; it seems like a fun and exciting business in which you can make a lot of money. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. In actuality, operating a successful restaurant is difficult even for seasoned food industry veterans. This is because trends change, and competition is unbelievably tough.FIND OUT MORE |
10 Ways to Use Up Food Scraps
If you’re like a lot of cooks, you probably throw out potato peelings, citrus rinds and the cores of your lettuce. While you may think these parts of your food are useless, they actually have plenty of uses, both in and out of the kitchen. While you probably won’t be able to use up everyFIND OUT MORE |