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How Restaurants are Maintaining Profit Margins with Rising Food Costs

Horizon Hospitality

The confluence of these economic pressures demands innovative approaches to menu planning, cost control, and supplier negotiations. Strategies for Menu Planning Simplify the Menu: Streamlining your menu can significantly reduce food costs. Diversify suppliers to ensure flexibility and competitiveness.

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How to Manage Restaurant Staff Without Sacrificing Your Sanity

7 Shifts

Additionally, make them accessible in a shared drive or through your restaurant communication system. Communication In the 7shifts study mentioned above, employees who were at risk of leaving their jobs cited better communication from their managers as a reason they would stay. Everyone is shouting orders and requests.

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How to Feed the Olympics

EATER

This way, the whole crew and delegation will receive the menu plans, and be able to map out everything they need to eat, and where in the village to find it. So when you do your menu planning, you have to understand there are certain athletes who want a carb-heavy diet, there are certain athletes who want lean protein.

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

EATER

This puts restaurateurs in a precarious position of having to communicate choices and challenges without sullying the fun of eating out. Customers who are attracted to sustainable eating “come find us because of our sourcing,” he adds, but “there’s only so many places we can communicate that.” without interruptions.

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What Does a Restaurant Consultant Do?

MBB Hospitality

From culinary strategy to kitchen management, menu planning, rebranding, and more, a restaurant consultant can significantly influence a restaurant’s journey to success. This encompasses the entire spectrum, including kitchen management, menu planning, sourcing, and other culinary aspects.

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Hospitality training: Courses and programs for hotels

SiteMinder

This training covers a wide range of areas including customer service, communication, problem-solving, and operational management. To develop effective interpersonal communication skills for better interaction with guests and team members. To enhance cross-departmental communication, ensuring a seamless guest experience.

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Just Like Restaurants, Culinary Schools and Their Students Are in Limbo

EATER

As New Orleans restaurants begin to reopen , NOCHI has a tentative plan “to resume classes whenever the city enters Phase 2,” Sarris says. Culinary schools are adjusting to adhere to new safety guidelines at both local and federal levels, says Miriam Weinstein, communications director for Johnson & Wales University.

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