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A Panel of Experts: Actionable Tips for Hiring Restaurant Employees

A Panel of Experts: Actionable Tips for Hiring Restaurant Employees

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We’ve asked our top restaurant consultants what they recommend when recruiting and hiring for various restaurant staff positions. They provided such great feedback that we compiled it all into this all-in-one resource for you. So, below you’ll find actionable tips for hiring restaurant managers, chefs and cooks, wait staff and host staff, and bartenders. Enjoy! […]

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Tip Credit Applied to Minimum Wage - Not as Evil as it Sounds

Tip Credit Applied to Minimum Wage – Not as Evil as it Sounds

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Many people view tip credit as “just another way for the greedy restaurant owner to line their pockets with cash.” Servers often have the same opinion and feel like they are being taken advantage of. Ultimately paying a good wage and eliminating tipping would create a much easier world for all restauranteurs. There would be

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How Fast Casual Dining Spaces Can Use Cutting-Edge Technology

How Fast Casual Dining Spaces Can Use Cutting-Edge Technology

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Every industry is taking advantage of cutting-edge technology in some form or fashion, and the fast casual dining space is no exception. Fast casual restaurants are uniquely positioned to benefit from incorporating consumer behavior and smartphone device detection to serve up personalized menu items. To start, I recently sat next to a woman on a

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Our Restaurant Consultants on July 4th: Food & Beverage Family Memories

Our Restaurant Consultants on July 4th: Food & Beverage Family Memories

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At Blue Orbit Restaurant Consulting, we like to share personal memories that revolve around food, drinks and family. So,  restaurant and hospitality experts, Ray Camillo and Mike Maxwell, have put together quick stories from their July 4thfamily histories and traditions, complete with distinct food and beverage components. Of course, their memories couldn’t be more different!

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An Inspired Fried Chicken Recipe to Add to Your Menu this Independence Day

An Inspired Fried Chicken Recipe to Add to Your Menu this Independence Day

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As a kid growing up in rural Maryland (Ijamsville to be exact), our Fourth of July celebrations meant packing up our green 1972 Ford LTD wagon with blankets, coolers, and “legal” fireworks while enduring protests from mom about the hassle of it all. We’d always leave a little too late to find a parking space

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2 Seasonal Cocktail Recipes to Celebrate Independence Day in Your Restaurant

2 Seasonal Cocktail Recipes to Celebrate Independence Day in Your Restaurant

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Next to Christmas, the annual 4th of July celebration in my family is one of the happiest memories from my childhood.  Every year we packed up the family and spent the entire day in Rockvale, Tennessee for a tournament of local baseball teams, music, grilled burgers, homemade peach ice cream, candy, bingo, and firecrackers.  My mom

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4 Quick Ways Restaurant Owners in Beach Towns Can Capitalize on Summer Vacationers

4 Quick Ways Restaurant Owners in Beach Towns Can Capitalize on Summer Vacationers

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We’ve all heard the term “tourist trap.” When applied to restaurants, it’s generally a negative term that refers to places with high prices serving low quality versions of foods that made the area famous. Often these restaurants thrive because their customers are lured in by flashy signage, proximity to the main attraction or campy foods

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Restaurants are Saving Retail: How to Ensure Success of Food-Driven Real Estate Developments in 3 Simple Ways

Restaurants are Saving Retail: How to Ensure Success of Food-Driven Real Estate Developments in 3 Simple Ways

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Restaurants are saving retail developments. We hear this all the time, but what does it really mean?  Let’s look at it like this. Consider some common retail tenants – maybe a mattress store, or a clothing store. People buy a new mattress every 10 years or so and they buy new clothes with the change

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20 Myths about Restaurant Consultants Debunked

20 Myths About Restaurant Consultants Debunked

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The term “consultant” – restaurant or otherwise – conjures images of slickster snake oil salesman preying on businesses in distress, bent on draining precious cash reserves before an inevitable failure. Indeed, there are some out there that make a living by cooking up problems that don’t exist, scaring their targets to death while holding up

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