Students safe in the Kitchen: All my fingers, all my toes
Who Does What: Restaurant Jobs and Service Styles
Funny thing about restaurants: they have a seeming ENDLESS number of jobs and positions, all which relate back to the STYLE of service. This post attempts to clear it up and make things a bit more simple. Attempts to, anyway.
Order Your Next Amazing Boxed Lunch Right Here
When you need a delicious lunch for a bunch of co-workers, ready to go with minimal fuss, choose our boxed lunch catering service. These are sure to take your next boring business meal from bland…
Mis en Place Your Cooking and Life (Better)
Mise en place is a French culinary term meaning 'Everything in Its Place'. It’s Parisian for ‘Getting Your Ducks in a Row’. The idea in culinary terms is you must prepare, measure, cut, and gather…
Panda Express: The Science, Technology, and Engineering Behind Chinese-American Wok Cooking
In 2022, I wrote a Duke Energy STEM grant proposal to provide our students the opportunity to connect STEM subjects with wok cookery. At the Panda Express near our school, a customer dropping by around…
Milk in a Thousand Varieties: Everything You Need to Learn to Master Dairy
People have been milking domesticated farm animals as far back as 6,000 years ago. That cow, goat, or yak milk (and the things which are made from it, like cheese or ice cream) are collectively…
The Line Starts Here: Finding a Job While in High School
Looking for your first job - whether it is part-time or full-time - can seem like an overwhelming task. Finding a job is hard enough to begin with, but when you have not had any…
Legal Stuff: Limitations and Opportunities for Working High School Students
There are a LOT of laws which regulate how managers hire, employ, and terminate their workers. While most restaurants and restaurant chains have policies and procedures which closely follow the laws, it is not uncommon…
Marketing ROI – What it is and how to figure it out
Restaurant ROIs can be scary things if you don’t know what they are all about. Let me explain how ROIs are used to make marketing decisions in a way that doesn’t make you hate everyone.
Thinking big picture from the beginning: How to complete a SWOT analysis (on a restaurant which doesn’t exist yet)
Creating a SWOT analysis for a restaurant is a challenge – creating one for a restaurant that hasn’t even opened? That’s a real trick. Let’s me show you how.