Grab Your Apron: 32 Kitchen & Restaurant Terms Defined

Operations

Kitchens are the heart of your home—and your restaurant.  As you know, the back of the house is constantly busy, so your team needs to streamline every process, including how they communicate. That’s why almost every kitchen has its own lingo, full of acronyms...

Purpose-Driven Spending: Why Random Acts of Kindness Feel Amazing

Lifestyle, Marketing, Operations

Don’t you ever wish a random person would give you $1 million in cash? Admit it, we all enjoy videos like those of ThatWasEpic or Mr. Beast where they give away expensive gifts and briefcases of cash to strangers as acts of kindness. Everybody loves it so much, that...

How to Remove Negative Restaurant Reviews

Marketing

Would you critique your mom’s cooking? Write a negative review on a note and pass it to her?  Probably not.  After all, she spent time making you a nice meal, and that would be incredibly rude. The same courtesy, however, doesn’t really apply when it comes to...

How to Reduce No-Shows at Your Restaurant

Operations

Has your restaurant experienced many no-shows? Many restaurants have and it happens to everyone in the industry at some point. No-shows are people who reserve a table at your restaurant but fail to honor it. Perhaps an emergency came up that prevented them from...

Food Trends: Should You Join In or Avoid the Fads?

Marketing

Photo from The Maya Kitchen In 2020, the term quarantreats was coined to describe the frothy Dalgona coffee, sushi bake, and ube cheese pandesal that Filipinos were munching on to comfort themselves amid a pandemic and a nationwide lockdown.  A year later, the home...